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  • That requires a significant improvement in professional ethics, which isn’t something that is really amenable to technological fixes.

    That goes some way to explaining why programmers don't have a moral compass.

  • When there’s a balanced incentive to point out hallucinations, they (hopefully) won’t get that far.

    That I can see. Unlike software "engineering", law is a field which has high and exacting standards - and faltering even slightly can lead to immediate and serious consequences.

  • I can see that working.

    The basic conceit of Idiocracy is that its a dystopia run by complete and utter morons, and with AI's brain-rotting effects being quite well known, swapping the original plotline's eugenicist "dumb outbreeding the smart" setup with an overtly anti-AI "AI turned humanity dumb" setup should be a cakewalk. Given public sentiment regarding AI is pretty strongly negative, it should also be easy to sell to the public.

  • The Torment Nexus brings us new and horrifying things today - a UN initiative has tried using chatbots for humanitarian efforts. I'll let Dr. Abeba Birhane's horrified reaction do the talking:

    this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming

    Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”

    just fucking shoot me

    Giving my take on this matter, this is gonna go down in history as an exercise in dehumanisation dressed up as something more kind, and as another indictment (of many) against the current AI bubble, if not artificial intelligence as a concept.

  • Musk says: “At times, I think Grok-3 is kind of scary smart.” Grok is just remixing its training data — but a stochastic parrot is still more reality-based than Elon Musk. [Bloomberg, archive]

    If someone roasted me such such surgical precision like that, I'd delete my entire Internet presence out of shame. God damn.

  • xAI has applied for permits for the first set of turbines. But it won’t install pollution controls unless and until its permits are approved. At that point, xAI will be “the lowest-emitting facility in the country,” allegedly.

    Musk probably sees gassing black people as a free bonus for installing the turbines, I strongly doubt he's installing pollution controls.

  • New article from Jared White: Sorry, You Don’t Get to Die on That “Vibe Coding” Hill, aimed at sneering the shit out of one of Simon Willson's latest blogposts. Here's a personal highlight of mine:

    Generative AI is tied at the hip to fascism (do the research if you don’t believe me), and it pains me to see pointless arguments over what constitutes “vibe coding” overshadow the reality that all genAI usage is anti-craft and anti-humanist and in fact represents an extreme position.

  • Baldur Bjarnason's given his thoughts on Bluesky:

    My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.

    I’ve heard so many examples of closed source projects that get shipped but don’t actually work for the business. And too many examples of broken closed source projects that are replacing legacy code that was both working just fine and genuinely secure. Pure novelty-seeking