BlueMonday1984

Is there already a nice term for “this was published before the slop flood gates opened”? There should be.

"Pre-slopnami" works well enough, I feel.

EDIT: On an unrelated note, I suspect hand-writing your original manuscript (or using a typewriter) will also help increase the value, simply through strongly suggesting ChatGPT was not involved with making it.

I tagged it NSFW because the previous thread was tagged NSFW.

Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher

Taking a shot in the dark here and saying they're implementing blockchain to enable corruption and fraud.

Ultra-rare footage of orange site having a good take for once:

Top-notch sneer from lobsters' top comment, as well (as of this writing):

You want my opinion, I expect AntiRez' pleas to fall on deaf ears. The AI funders are only getting funded due to LLM hype - when that dies, investors' reason to throw money at them dies as well.

I much prefer the Whoppenheimer.

I didn't mean to link something else, I just mangled my description. Thanks for catching it.

Court documents regarding Facebook's plagiarism lawsuit just started getting unsealed, and ho-lee shit is this a treasure trove:

This confirms basically everything I said a week ago - AI violates copyright by design, and a single copyright suit going through means its open fucking season on the AI industry. Wonder who's gonna blink first.

lol, that’s too charitable to them, nukes at least work

And Oppie realised the gravity of their invention. And he was trying to end the Second World War with them, not make money by causing untold suffering.

Nukes and AI both represented a new and unique threat capable of causing worldwide devastation, so I'd say the analogy works pretty well.

New thread from Baldur Bjarnason:

Keep hearing reports of guys trusting ChatGPT’s output over experts or even actual documentation. Honestly feels like the AI Bubble’s hold over society has strengthened considerably over the past three months

This also highlights my annoyance with everybody who’s claiming that this tech will be great if every uses it responsibly. Nobody’s using it responsibly. Even the people who think they are, already trust the tech much more than it warrants

Also constantly annoyed by analysis that assumes the tech works as promised or will work as promised. The fact that it is unreliable and nondeterministic needs to be factored into any analysis you do. But people don’t do that because the resulting conclusion is GRIM as hell

LLMs add volatility and unpredictability to every system they touch, which makes those systems impossible to manage. An economy with pervasive LLM automation is an economy in constant chaos

On a semi-related note, I expect the people who are currently making heavy use of AI will find themselves completely helpless without it if/when the bubble finally bursts, and will probably struggle to find sympathy from others thanks to AI indelibly staining their public image.

(The latter part is assuming heavy AI users weren't general shitheels before - if they were, AI's stain on their image likely won't affect things either way. Of course, "AI bro" is synonymous with "trashfire human being", so I'm probably being too kind to them :P)

from someone who helped build their LLM

Nice to get a look on the inside from one of the 21st-century Oppenheimers.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation fills its tabloid papers across Australia with right-wing slop. Now the slop will come from a chatbot — and not a human slop churner.

The quality of its tabloids will remain exactly the same, I presume.

r/cursor is the gift that keeps on giving: