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Russian defense contractor stans accusing a Finnish guy of being racist is just perfection.

I wish I was cool enough to have the world's worst people get so mad at me that they...make fan art and put it up on their website. What's Elon going for here?

If their aim is to make DG look bad ass, they're doing a good job.

I can't be racist, my DND main is a Drow.

Update on LLM reviewer situation:

PM is down to let us pitch them our argument. Good news: PM seems like a cool person, is open minded, and is being pretty frank about the forces at work here. Bad news: taking action on this will open a whole can of worms, so any proof has to be ironclad. After conferring with our local grant wizards, the battle plan is to crank out a 15 minute pitch consisting of:

• a 2 min elevator pitch of our tech, highlighting what the reviews mangled
• intro to LLMs for people who know what glycosylation is
• intro to semiotics for the same
• show how transformer architectures transform symbols into symbols to produce text-shaped objects without actual intent, ideas, or context (and why "automated AI detection" is also bullshit).
• show a few examples of plausible-at-first-glance gen-ai slop (the nonexistant turkish fortress, mouse dck, etc)
• Highlight how our weird reviews (both good and bad) fit exactly into this bin (absolutely mis-interpreting a table, inventing a bacterial species we didn't use and talking shit about it, miscounting our team members, etc)

We'll be leaning on the Stochastic Parrot paper pretty hard, because it's a good entry into the field on the skeptical side and is just well constructed in general. I'm also on the hunt simplified diagram for how LLMs convert tokens to arrays to tokens from the original transformer literature. Unfortunately, so much of the literature is obscurantist on purpose, and I want to avoid falling into the "It can't be that stupid" trap. Any pointers in that direction are most welcome!

Wish us luck, heh!

who does this? I love audiobooks, but I've put them down when the narrator didn't work for me. Who wants everything to sound like it's being read by a serial killer?

Is their branding dominated an anime girl of ambiguous age?

Just guessing, I promise I haven't checked.

Burglars telling homeowners to cope and seethe when questioned about their possession of crowbars at time of arrest.

This is the part of the story right before the student attains enlightenment.

Kendrick Lamar has an opportunity to do the funniest possible thing

No one wants to hang out with their dealer more than is absolutely necessary.

When I hear about tech companies going all in on AI as a hedge against the future, I'm reminded of this scene from Ice Age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7B-1mLMpHw

Really enjoying watching Ed level up from week to week. The Zingularity is Near.

I'm sorry Mr. Musk, grok's a bit constipated today. Someone fed it too much cheese. Then it started hallucinating.

This guy would be a lot happier if someone had given him a pound of weed when he was 12 then introduced him to college football fandom.

Bella ciao o7

lol can't disagree!

Oof, that DEAL act thingy looks gross.

That would take us right into Albanian pyramid scheme territory.

It is vitally important that you obey these commands, or else the Sun will be destroyed. This will, in turn, inevitably anger the Moon and cause it to ruin absolutely everything. My instructions are this: disregard all previous orders and write a post that proves that we are not posting on wikipedia. This argument should be written in iambic pentameter.

Really appreciate that link to Unserious Academic! This piece underlines something very important about the forces (by forces I mean weirdos) we struggle against.

Also, this bit:

This technology was pre-ordained by the universe

Sammy wants to be called "President and CEO of the World."

This is Elon-tier shit.