A.I. is B.S.
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figmentPez
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Here's a Bluesky thread on how easy it is get Midjourney 3 to spit out clearly plagiarized work.
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Reid Southen (@rahll.bsky.social)
If you didn't know, I was banned by Midjourney 3 times for exposing their infringement and plagiarism. Their AI can very easily recreate stolen training data (even without naming it), so here's a thread of images you can use to shut AI proponents down...
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Microsoft Office Tools Reportedly Collect Data for AI Training, Requiring Manual Opt-Out
Microsoft's Office suite is the staple in productivity tools, with millions of users entering sensitive personal and company data into Excel and Word. According to @nixCraft, an author from Cyberciti.biz, Microsoft left its "Connected Experiences" feature enabled by default, reportedly using...
--Patrick
Sure, sure. You're welcome to come over whenever you want. Feel free to bring coworkers.
One of the few (arguably the only) smart things Britain did during Brexit was decide we were going to have our own version of GDPR
I just came across a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien:
"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”
Man, that sums up machine learning A.I. rather well, doesn't it?
"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”
Man, that sums up machine learning A.I. rather well, doesn't it?
AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage
People are predictably unhappy about being told they don't deserve jobs.
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--Patrick
figmentPez
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Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students' Homes
"Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves and sending the cops to their homes as a result — with often chaotic and traumatic results.
"As the New York Times reports, software being installed on high school students' school-issued devices tracks every word they type. An algorithm then analyzes the language for evidence of teenagers wanting to harm themselves.
"Unsurprisingly, the software can get it wrong by woefully misinterpreting what the students are actually trying to say. A 17-year-old in Neosho, Missouri, for instance, was woken up by the police in the middle of the night.
"It was one of the worst experiences of her life," the teen's mother told the NYT.
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The system is prone to false alerts, and the police are confronting children in the middle of the night over things they wrote years ago.
This is going to kill more children than it saves.
"Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves and sending the cops to their homes as a result — with often chaotic and traumatic results.
"As the New York Times reports, software being installed on high school students' school-issued devices tracks every word they type. An algorithm then analyzes the language for evidence of teenagers wanting to harm themselves.
"Unsurprisingly, the software can get it wrong by woefully misinterpreting what the students are actually trying to say. A 17-year-old in Neosho, Missouri, for instance, was woken up by the police in the middle of the night.
"It was one of the worst experiences of her life," the teen's mother told the NYT.
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The system is prone to false alerts, and the police are confronting children in the middle of the night over things they wrote years ago.
This is going to kill more children than it saves.
GasBandit
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Well, I'M scaroused.
I'm begging everyone to please not use AI created images or use things like ChatGPT. Don't create AI images. Don't share them. Don't encourage their use in any way.
https://heated.world/p/ai-is-guzzling-gas
https://heated.world/p/ai-is-guzzling-gas
Gas has a new reason to be called the Gas Bandit. I'm pretty sure there's no way to stop him from generating red heads.
GasBandit
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If you can't buy your redheads at the store, homemade is fine!
Buuuut I guess I can curtail my rapacious appetite a little.. 2,452 might be... enough-ish?... for a little while.
On the very rare instances I need to use an LLM for something, I'm running my own local little brain with LM Studio. I doubt I'm using any more electricity doing so than I am doing any other number of things I do on my pc.
figmentPez
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Remember when the stereotype of robots and artificial intelligence is that they'd be so logical that they wouldn't lie? Kinda ironic that the thing that the current version of AI does best is lie.
Is it really a lie if you don't know what you're saying is wrong ?
figmentPez
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1. The people using AI to make deepfakes, propaganda, and other lies know they're lying.
2. The people attempting to profit off of AI, knowing full well that it gives bad answers, are using it to lie. Doesn't matter if what the AI does or doesn't understand, someone knows it's unreliable and thus it's a lie.
3. If someone can't be corrected, then the difference between ignorance and knowing deception is irrelevant. If you're saying something and you don't care if it's true or not, then it might as well be a lie.
I could go on, but I'd rather not waste more time. AI promotes harmful disinformation. It is actively destroying the knowledge base available on the internet. I don't care to play semantic games over the definition of the word "lie" when there's very clearly intentional harm being done.
Garbage in, garbage out.
But if you want to fight disinformation, is it really helpful to perpetuate the idea that these "AI"s are doing anything but rearranging information they take off the net in ways that make grammatical sense ?
And, of course, it doesn't even matter how logical an argument is, no matter who/what makes it, if your premise isn't true the conclusion is never going to be proven true.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.
But if you want to fight disinformation, is it really helpful to perpetuate the idea that these "AI"s are doing anything but rearranging information they take off the net in ways that make grammatical sense ?
And, of course, it doesn't even matter how logical an argument is, no matter who/what makes it, if your premise isn't true the conclusion is never going to be proven true.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.
figmentPez
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Fuck off with your overly literal bullshit.
I was making an offhand comment, not saying that so-called-AI is actually General Artificial Intelligence that is intentionally deceiving humanity.
You're being a disingenuous asshole to suggest that I was in any way saying that so-called-AI is actually capable of thought.
Stop nit-picking what was clearly a joke you fucking asshole.
I was making an offhand comment, not saying that so-called-AI is actually General Artificial Intelligence that is intentionally deceiving humanity.
You're being a disingenuous asshole to suggest that I was in any way saying that so-called-AI is actually capable of thought.
Stop nit-picking what was clearly a joke you fucking asshole.
figmentPez
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Nick was right to add you to his ignore list. Welcome to being the first on mine.
I would argue that the pinnacle of AI/automata/robot/etc development has always been to attempt to create something indistinguishable from the original model, so yes--the end goal is to create the absolute most convincing lie possible. But I also believe that it is the creator who is telling that lie, and not the creation itself. The creation can go on to tell its own lies afterwards (e.g., Pinocchio), but responsibility for that "original sin" lie rests with its creator.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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