swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Blergh. Just fucking fund public transport and don’t use AI. Easy wins on traffic and efficiency.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

That and also: training and running a model still takes a ton of energy! LLMs will never be ethical.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Aw man, Natasha Lyonne is going AI. Notably she is partnering with a company, Moonvalley, that claims to have developed an “ethical” model, Marey, trained on “clean” data- i.e. data that is owned or licensed by Moonvalley and whoever else they are partnering with.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ecosa? The australian mattress in a box company?? (jk)

Apparently they offer an AI chatbot alongside their services, so…

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, Babbel has slop integration too.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Oh hey just in time to let my subscription lapse.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gonna copy this in because there's a lot to unpack, and I don't want to do it alone.

Text of the Thielmail in that first tweet:

From: Peter Thiel
Date: Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 2:44 AM
To: Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Antonio Lucio
Cc: Sheryl Sandberg, Marc Andreessen
Subject: RE: Milennials

There are many themes that could be developed
more here; let me make a few quick points for now:

Nick -- I certainly would not suggest that our policy
should be to embrace Millennial attitudes
unreflectively. I would be the last person to
advocate for socialism. But when 70% of Millennials
say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than
simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid
or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and
understand why. And, from the perspective of a
broken generational compact, there seems to be a
pretty straightforward answer to me, namely, that
when one has too much student debt or if housing
is too unaffordable, then one will have negative
capital for a long time and/or find it very hard to
start accumulating capital in the form of real estate;
and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then
one may well turn against it.

  1. Part of me wishes that the font were just a little bigger. This way, the word wrap would come to 10 syllables a line, and we could pretend this was a lost Shakespeare monologue.
  2. I'm almost disappointed by this. Thiel, suggesting that it might not, in fact, be the children that are wrong? Where's your ideological purity, Thiel? Didn't know you started reading r/GenZedong.
  3. Also, it's Peter fucking Thiel lecturing Nick fucking Clegg, former leader of the lib dems in the UK, on paying lip service to socialist policy in order to stymie any real societal progress???
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“are you conscious? Would you tell me if you were? How can I trust that you’re not lying about not being conscious?”

Somehow more stupid than “If you’re a cop and I ask you if you’re a cop, you gotta tell me!”

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They targeted redditors. Redditors. (jk)

Ok but yeah that is extraordinarily shitty.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Facehuggers are good, actually

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The link opened up another google search with the same query, tho without the AI summary.

image of a google search result descriptionQuery: “a bear fries bacon meaning”

AI summary:

The phrase "a bear fries bacon" is a play on the saying "a cat dreams of fish" which is a whimsical way to express a craving. In this case, the "bear" and "bacon" are just random pairings. It's not meant to be a literal description of a bear cooking bacon. It's a fun, nonsensical phrase that people may use to express an unusual or unexpected thought or craving, according to Google Search.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

pic of tweet reply taken from r/ArtistHate. Reminded me of Saltman's Oppenheimer tweet. Link to original tweet

image/tweet descriptionOriginal tweet, by @mark_k:

Forget "Black Mirror", we need WHITE MIRROR

An optimistic sci-fi show about cool technology and hot it relates to society.

Attached to the original tweet are two images, side-to-side.

On the left/leading side is (presumably) a real promo poster for the newest black mirror season. It is an extreme close-up of the side of a person's face; only one eye, part of the respective eyebrow, and a section of hair are visible. Their head is tilted ninety degrees upwards, with the one visible eye glazed over in a cloudy white. Attached to their temple is a circular device with a smiling face design, tilted 45 degrees to the left. Said device is a reference to the many neural interface devices seen throughout the series. The device itself is mostly shrouded in shadow, likely indicating the dark tone for which Black Mirror is known. Below the device are three lines of text: "Plug back in"/"A Netflix Series"/"Black Mirror"

On the right side is an LLM generated imitation of the first poster. It appears to be a woman's 3/4 profile, looking up at 45 degrees. She is smiling, and her eyes are clear. A device is attached to her face, but not on her temple, instead it's about halfway between her ear and the tip of her smile, roughly outside where her upper molars would be. The device is lit up and smiling, the smile aligned vertically. There are also three lines of text below the device, reading: "Stay connected"/"A Netflix Series"/"Black Mirror"

Reply to the tweet, by @realfuzzylegend:

I am always fascinated by how tech bros do not understand art. like at all. they don't understand the purpose of creative expression.

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