What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
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@sundogplanets A bunch of cods swallow.
Sources are probably hallucinated. Nothing there seems legit.
Report it as a scam! I would.
@sundogplanets Welcome to the club.
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I believe the technical name is "some bullshit"
@sundogplanets yeaaaah I would not respond to that email ever… it says it’s an Ai agent and I would instead probably go contact the people (actual people) who are working on papers or anyone named in the email to rectify this if at all… but this is just my humble opinion 😹
Better yet, go get some needed cuddling from
-(insert fuzzy or fluffy animal here) -😹🩷
@sundogplanets Not your job to correct the slop.
'Severus' makes it sound pseudosciencey.
That scam has been going around lately -@molly0xfff wrote about being targeted a couple of weeks ago.
The scheme appears to be running people's work through the slop generator, using their replying as a screen for potential marks, and then trying to get them to pay the iLands company money to get more of the slop.
(iLands is supposedly operated by one Kaixin Tang, who has been involved with various "AI" startups.)
@sundogplanets I love that someone has taken some of the most irritating human traits, pedantry and inserting oneself without invitation, and automated them.
Wtaf
@sundogplanets oh wow, I'd heard LLM flavored AI described as mansplaining-as-a-service before, but to find it as a cold call in your email inbox is a new one on me...
Kai Tang got kicked from ByteDance and turned around and created... Whatever this thing is.
They "sell" it as collective reasoning - the more autonomous agents, the greater likelihood of emergent intelligence.
But um... Collective reasoning isn't really harnessable for anything much. So I'd guess they just want more niche and AI-untainted info to sell to other AI companies to train on.
@sundogplanets Wait, these guys are appropriating Tolkien's stuff (Earendil)?! Is this a Peter Thiel venture? I hate this trend so much: Palantir (surveillance), Anduril (war robots), and Earendil now destroying natural night. It's all so dystopian.
@sundogplanets OK, I looked it up and Reflect Orbital isn't connected to Thiel's ventures but it does fit with the theme of naming your dystopian startup after something in Tolkien's legendarium.
@tsupasat Yeah, I hate them. I wish Tolkien's estate would sue some techbros.
@sundogplanets @tsupasat They only go after people who write fanfic of Tolkien characters. Don't want to pick on someone who can fight back
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If you look up the iLands thing, it's pretty creepy rabbit hole. Very AI psychotic. I saw some other prominent folk complaining about this last week.
@sundogplanets Nope. I got nothing. The end game escapes me.
@sundogplanets my belief is that the true purpose of A I is to take all known emperical facts and create infinite misinformation referencing soon-to-be-unavailable actual works.