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In my experience, people who support AI overwhelmingly tend to be stupid and malicious in equal measure, so seeing Tony "Bomb The Browns" Blair support it does not shock me.

Red site's having a normal one about it

Starting this Stubsack off with Brian Merchant's newest article: The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing

Well, I'll give them the text equivalent of a "you tried" sticker for finally admitting their automatic bullshit machines produce (gasp) bullshit, but the main sneerable thing I see is the ISO Standard OpenAI Anthropomo-

the developers actively selected for bullshit generation

every_tf2_class_laughing_at_once.wav

(Maximising lies extruded per ocean boiled was definitely what they were going for in hindsight, but it geniunely cracks me up to see them come out and just say it)

And yet people are willing to call him an “AI theorist” or an “AI researcher”.

Its technically correct to call him both - he "theorises" about a pseudoscientific idea that conflates the living, breathing human mind with spicy autocomplete, and "researches" how plagiarism-fueled lying machines can magically become omniscient omnipotent acausal robot gods and turn all of humanity into paperclips.

I have a hard time imagining there’s any modern science that can’t be explained to 100IQ smoothbrains, assuming the author is good enough.

Same here. The main things stopping the LWers are that

(a) what they're doing is utterly divorced from modern science

(b) they are godawful writers, to the point where it took years of billionaire funding and an all-consuming economic bubble to break them into the mainstream

The billionaires' dreams of defeating death with technology have been "realised" by Marvel, which is planning an AI-Powered^tm hologram of him at L.A. Comic Con.

To the shock of nobody, this act of exploitation through digital necromancy is being met with unfiltered disgust.

Axel Springer also messed about with AI slop at Politico, leading to the union filing a dispute.

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[Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner] used to write books. But he’s got a machine doing it for him now, and he’s convinced you can’t write for yourself either. Even if it’s your job. Get with the programme!

Döpfner sounds like a genuinely dogshit writer if a text extruder managed to impress him

"rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast"

Got a pretty fitting post just up the thread:

anyway it turns out i spoke too soon: enough people have already stepped down to the point where dhh is now paying to keep the lights on

so the answer is "the only people left are paid to be there, everyone else walked away"

New premium newsletter from Ed Zitron: Is There Any Real Money In Renting Out AI GPUs?

(Clever use of Betteridge's Law of Headlines there, I gotta say.)

They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks

We at least got to see a well-aimed sneer in response:

A second trashfire has hit the Ruby language - RubyGems was hit with a hostile takeover from Ruby Central, seemingly to squash an attempt at putting together an official governance policy.

Between that and DHH's fascist screed, its not been a good week for Ruby.

Quick PSA for anyone who's still on LinkedIn: the site's stealing your data to train the slop machines

Nah, its completely on-topic - "bad tech hurting people" has become a major theme of our current times, a bad glucose monitor hurting diabetics is completely expected

The racism machine does a racism: AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

The paper is 94 pages, but if you read through, they openly admit they’ve got nothing. Section 3.1, “Covert actions as a proxy for scheming”, admits directly:

Current frontier models likely lack the sophisticated awareness and goal-directedness required for competent and concerning scheming.

If those promptfondlers could read, they'd be very relieved.

I bet these guys are haunted by the malevolent artificial intelligence power of thermostats. It switched itself on!!

Considering how chatbot abuse causes psychosis and Apollo are AI doomsday cultists trying to convince themselves chatbots are malevolent, I genuinely think they might have gotten to that point.

They've already extruded a fake semblance of humanity for the government corruption machine, might as well extrude some flimsy botshit to "justify" its unjustifiable existence

A new artificially-extruded minister has given its inaugural address to Albania's parliament, defending its role as "not here to replace people, but to help them".

You exist to replace would-be resistance with a digital Quisling, shut the fuck up

"Let me remind you, the real danger to constitutions has never been the machines but the inhumane decisions of those in power," the clanker said.

Your purpose is to perpetrate inhumane decisions and protect those in power from accountability, shut the fuck up

The AI also responded to constitutional concerns, noting that the law "speaks of duties, responsibilities, transparency, without discrimination."

"I assure you, I embody these values as rigorously as any human colleague. Perhaps even more so."

You spew lies and perpetrate bigotry with every syllable you extrude from your "corpus" of stolen humanity, shut the fuck up

LLM's ability to fake solving word problems hinges on being able to crib the answer, so using aliens from cartoons (or automatically-generating random names for objects/characters) will prove highly effective until AI corps can get the answers into their training data.

As for context breaks, those will remain highly effective against LLMs pretty much forever - successfully working around a context break requires reasoning, which LLMs are categorically incapable of doing.

Constantly and subtly twiddling with questions (ideally through automatic means) should prove effective as well - Apple got "reasoning" text extruders to flounder and fail at simple logic puzzles through such a method.

A damn good find - bringing particular attention to this passage, since it pinpoints one of the major causes of the rot:

The following doesn’t apply to everybody in technology, but it applies to enough of them: At some point STEM education was the only thing the Olds cared about because of something something Asia, and now we have a couple of generations that are highly educated on paper and comically unaware of the complexity of the world outside of WordPress plugins.

OT: Baldur Bjarnason's lamented how his webdev feed has turned to complete shit:

Between the direct and indirect support of fascism and the uncritical embrace of LLMs and the overwhelming majority of the dev sites in my feed reader have turned to an undifferentiated puddle of nonsense…

…Two years ago these feeds (I never subscribed to any of the React grifters) were all largely posts on concrete problem-solving and, y’know, useful stuff. Useful dev discourse has collapsed into a tiny handful of blogs.