(eyeroll) Wow, that's us put in our place, huh.
(See also: "If you're not rich enough to sue us, go screw yoursel[f/ves].")
"Complex Copyright problems" The "Problems" here are that Zuckerberg does not have the right to sell OTHER PEOPLE'S Art, those OTHER PEOPLE Do!
starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
This story of tech firm Palo Alto using women literally dressed as sexy lamps for their event at a cybersecurity conference (and getting massive blowback from women in tech) has been going around, and it feels like some weird combination of the 00s era of video game "booth babes" (when I saw the story I was like "what year is it?") combined with somebody thinking Kelly Sue DeConnick's "sexy lamp test" was an instruction manual. >_>
Tangentially, I feel like if there was a comic book supervillain whose gimmick was lamps, they'd probably have minions dressed like this.
“The tech industry is getting increasingly scammy. True innovation has slowed down drastically in recent years, threatening to shrink the staggering profits from the earlier parts of the century. To replace that income, tech leaders have increasingly turned to overhyped products or even outright fraud, as evidenced by the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and imprisonment of its founder. Joe Biden’s administration has made shutting down consumer fraud a majority priority. Rather than dial back the shady behavior, the tech industry is turning to Donald Trump, a man whose entire business career was built on fraud, to save them.”
Don't let them lie to you about this. They're acting like the llms are some inherently uncontrollable natural process.
My mom used to write code for the US Navy, and one of the first things she drilled into me when school was teaching us LogoWriter was "A computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it." The creators of these systems have full control over how they operate and what kind of input they're "trained" on. They were just lazy about it, and now the consequences are too big and costly to be worth fixing.
Don't let them lie to you about how this works. They just don't want to take it offline (costs money) and spend the time and money actually doing a good job. They just don't want to admit that it wasn't ready to be released.
"We are sorry but our generate-words-without-context tool is now generating answers without context when people ask it questions"
"Okay so why do you have it answering questions?"
". . ."
I’ve said it before; AI is not being implemented to be good. It’s there to be an ‘act of God’ machine that can be blamed for corporate negligences.
They could train AI to give better answers. But that would require identifying good, useful information. And that would take a lot of work by people they’d have to pay. I know we’re on the “please let me infodump” site, but off tumblr subject matter experts expect to be paid—some quite highly. And the source of a lot of this information is someone’s intellectual property, which AI companies have been extremely reluctant to pay for. In short, AI was built by techbros who figured they could do it quick and cheap, and get out with their billions before AI all crumbled under its own insufficiencies.
good lord this thing is useless
idk what yall are mad about the new Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You machine is working great
awesome
As much as I hate to ruin the joke, the article is really good. Here it is in full!
i forgot what the original function of shinagami eyes was so for a minute i was thinking "how can pasta be transphobic?"
so a huge list of artists that was used to train midjourney’s model got leaked and i’m on it
literally there is no reason to support AI generators, they can’t ethically exist. my art has been used to train every single major one without consent lmfao 🤪
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
And it really needs to be understood how the shitty inefficiency of modern coding is a direct result of the abusive conditions most programmers work under. Games, and programs in general, COULD be better optimized, but it's cheaper for bosses to "spend" their worker's health and the quality of their product than to spend the time and money needed to do it fuckin right.
Another especially poignant quote is this one
You know what, fuck it, I don't *want* some frivolous, artisanal, lighter-than-air computer with no customizability, no upgradeability, no reparability, no ports, and a lifetime of *maybe* 3 years if you're lucky. I want a fucking great BEAST of a computer that's designed to last a minimum of 50 years, with ports up the wazoo and optional drives for every kind of media! I want modular components that you can drop in a bog for a year, dry them off, and have them still work fine! I want them to make a noise like "ker-chunk!" when you slide them into place! I want a switch that you pull to turn it on! And I don't want software that constantly forces you to get a pointless, cosmetic "upgrade" every few months either! I want durability! I want longevity! I want satisfying haptics! I want Silicon Valley to go fuck itself!
