New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)
Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.
BlueMonday1984
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eigen "Whipping Blacks who Talk Back" robot
eigen "Replacing Meals on Wheels with Cotton Fields" robot
(If anyone can think up more nicknames like this, go ahead - I have zero intent treating this dumbfuck with any degree of dignity)
They're too stupid to understand anything beyond "the code", its unsurprising they're treating it as a technological hammer in a world of nails
Not a sneer, but another cool piece from Baldur Bjarnason: The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus.
Gonna skip straight to near the end, where Baldur lays out a potential apocalypse scenario for FOSS as we know it:
Best case scenario, seems to me, is that Free and Open Source Software enters a period of decline. After all, that’s generally what happens to complex systems with less investment. Worst case scenario is a vicious cycle leading to a collapse:
Declining surplus and burnout leads to maintainers increasingly stepping back from their projects.
Many of these projects either bitrot serious bugs or get taken over by malicious actors who are highly motivated because they can’t relay on pervasive memory bugs anymore for exploits.
OSS increasingly gets a reputation (deserved or not) for being unsafe and unreliable.
That decline in users leads to even more maintainers stepping back.
Linking this to a related sneer, another major problem that I can see befalling FOSS is earning a reputation as a Nazi bar. How high that risk is I'm not sure, but between the AI bubble shredding tech's public image and our very good friends increasingly catching the public's attention, I suspect those chances are pretty high.
Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
Lying to people is the only thing AI is good for, so its no shock that cops want to use it
Ah, hell yeah, the much-anticipated finale.
Gonna give particular praise to the opening, because this really caught my eye:
Tech culture often denigrates humans through its assumptions that human skills, knowledge and functions can be improved through their replacement by technological replacements, and through transhumanist narratives that rely on a framing of human consciousness as fundamentally computational.
I've touched on the framing of human consciousness part myself - seems we may be on the same wavelength.
As for the whole "replacement by technological replacements" part...well, we've all seen the AI art slop-nami, its crystal fucking clear what you're referring to.
In other news, https://creative.ai/ was put up for purchase because the original owner considers AI's reputation a lost cause.
(In other other news, its my 24th birthday.)
Something you always have to consider, even if it is a shitty doctor for our standards, it might still be better than no doctor.
No doctor means your shit doesn't get treated. A false doctor (e.g. alternative medicine) gives you a false sense of hope at best and ruins your health at worst.
ah, jeez, AI bros are trying to make deepfakes even fucking worse:
Deep-Live-Cam is trending #1 on github. It enables anyone to convert a single image into a LIVE stream deepfake, instant and immediately
Most of the replies are openly lambasting this shit like it deserves, thankfully
and really from the demos it looks like a user wouldn’t have to do anything at all besides write “summarize my emails” once. No need to click on anything for confidential info to be exfiltrated if the chatbot can already download arbitrary URLs based on the prompt injection!
We're gonna see a whole lotta data breaches in the upcoming months - calling it right now.
Rare Airbnb W
I'm gonna risk coming off too harsh and say this gaggle of meth microdosing ratfucks don't deserve rehab, they deserve to rot in jail. Fuck them.