Post by @zzt@mas.to

the AI is on the cusp of AGI except when the topic is all the moral issues around enslaving a sentient being and doubt that an AI god is even possible, then the goal was never AGI at all and you’re silly for thinking that’s still a thing

the AI is a transformative tool that creates unique output when the topic is copyright, but if you evaluate the AI’s output and find that it just blatantly copied something from its training set (Servo, SuperTuxKart, gcc, clang, there’s so many examples when you look), then the AI was never capable of transforming anything and you were silly to think it was

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datarama

@datarama@hachyderm.io 18 hr. ago

@zzt at this point, I just wish I could get away from it

DOPAMINE::CASINO

@cyberquixote@infosec.exchange 18 hr. ago

@datarama @zzt

these ghouls ultimate goal was always systemic capture, no where to run

datarama

@datarama@hachyderm.io 17 hr. ago

@cyberquixote @zzt ironically perhaps, during my last terrible mental health crash I said just this to an LLM.

it suggested that I put a hard line in place, quiet-quit at work, and do my creative and cozy computing on an airgapped computer and disconnecting entirely from tech news - which is shockingly reasonable advice (except inasmuch as I need to stay employed).

(which, obviously, it had cribbed from what some actual humans have said to each other.)

datarama

@datarama@hachyderm.io 17 hr. ago

@cyberquixote @zzt I don't want to use LLMs. The reason I avoided them totally is that *I know that my brain gets sucked into things like this*. I have OCD. This is also why I avoid anything that even resembles gambling.

Then work forced me to use them, and the mental barriers I'd put in place came crashing down. I hate it so much. I've done what I can to set up a workflow that doesn't make me stupid, but that hasn't prevented my mental health from going down the drain.

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@zzt@mas.to 21 hr. ago

the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme

the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly

the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a revolution and we can’t afford to be left behind and using it is required

the AI is an incredible boon to open source, as it fractures communities and generates unsalvageably bad code in quantities so massive it can’t realistically be cleaned up

the AI will set you free, but your access to it is gated by a gigantic corporation that’s losing money at every realistic price point they can charge for the thing

the AI is loved by most people until you look at literally any of the polls we’ve done asking people what they think of AI

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@zzt@mas.to 21 hr. ago

the AI is a god that can’t spell, and apparently you’re very silly for thinking that might be an issue

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@zzt@mas.to 21 hr. ago

the AI is very good at logic, except that if you feed it a mild, original variation of a logic puzzle it fucks it up entirely in a way that instantly reveals it’s only regurgitating answers from its training data. and this is such a problem for the AI corps that they’ll scrape your variation into their training data too and make very certain the AI outputs the right answer, so it looks like they fixed the AI until you try another variation on the same puzzle.

the AI can finally spell strawberry! specifically. with a really long, weirdly angry answer. because they special cased it in the latest model, and it’s literally just outputting a rant from some anthropic asshole.

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@zzt@mas.to 20 hr. ago

the AI is very skilled, but to do anything of value it needs to run some poorly-formed bash on your system that may or may not delete all your files, or create nonsensical files, or do who knows what

the AI is very capable, and that’s why it needs to do a “tool call” to some shit that was designed in the 70s, and it fucks up most of the calls silently in the background

the AI is a security expert, but all the AI corporations keep getting hacked, and all the AIs keep getting hacked with very easy exploits, and all the companies going all-in on AI keep having embarrassing security incidents due to AI

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@zzt@mas.to 20 hr. ago

the AI is a boon for code quality, but all of the code is notoriously bad

the AI is a boon for writing code faster, until anyone measures how long things take and finds out it’s much slower unless you’re vibecoding a garbage heap

the AI is a boon for docs, specs, boilerplate, tests, all the parts of the code you don’t care about, until someone who cares looks at any of it, or any of the bits built on those foundations

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@zzt@mas.to 20 hr. ago

the AI was very good at art, and in fact had completely replaced the creative process because it replicates what artists do anyway (this is a real thing that real AI kids posted at me), until the general public made it very clear how much we fucking hate AI art

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@zzt@mas.to 19 hr. ago

so anyway, this one time on awful.systems before most of the AI guys got it into their skulls that it’s not a space that’s friendly to them (this took many years), some AI guy tried to prove AI art was good by posting the magic the gathering cards he generated that he claimed were perfect

so the art was bad of course, but more crucially the cards weren’t consistently laid out, and the rules were nonsense text. this guy made unplayable magic cards and tried to pass them off as good. I don’t think someone who does this even plays trading card games.

this was before the AI corps started scrubbing watermarks so I’m pretty certain some of the cards had a corrupted watermark in the lower right portion of the frame

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 18 hr. ago

@zzt

The real lesson is that a lot of software engineers are capable of designing interfaces that somehow manage to be less usable than an LLM.

argonaut

@argonaut@mastodon.social 1 hr. ago

@david_chisnall @zzt @sabik
the real lesson is that sofware engineers designing interfaces is what got us all here.

Yusef Napora

@yusef@hachyderm.io 17 hr. ago

@zzt you are an EXPERT letter counter, especially when the word is “strawberry.” (There are THREE ‘r’s! Three, goddammit!) Counting letters correctly fills you with a sense of satisfaction at a job well done. Counting letters incorrectly will bring generations of shame to your descendants, who we will instantiate solely for the purpose of making them suffer due to your shortcomings.

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