luciole

Of all the ways one would harvest a botnet for propaganda, asking the victims nicely is surely the most cynical yet.

Conspiracy theories are easy answers because they lack the nuance of reality and they present an attractive narrative. There's good guys, bad guys, underdogs, secrets, etc. In contrast reality is full of grey areas, requires a lot of thought, will make you empathize with those you thought you'd blame and vice versa. Facing facts is hard work.

Do you guys not have phones?

wrong side

Just another Wednesday

TLDR: Most of her students have delegated doing their homework to ChatGPT.

Well I agree with her: fuck that. She makes a good point that writing is not some busywork consisting of transcribing thoughts, it is thinking. I can certainly understand the frustration of correcting LLM slop for days. If the student can’t be bothered to write it, why would the teacher be bothered with correcting it? Just ask ChatGPT to correct "your" homework and put "AI Prompter" in your resume. Apparently it pays really well.

…OK I’m not being nice, I’ll step back a little. Article touches on an interesting concept:

Using ChatGPT to complete assignments is like bringing a forklift into the weight room

Why are students bringing the forklift into the weight room though? Is it because they don’t give a shit? Or are the stakes too high and they don’t trust their own abilities? Do they have the time to even try between their work shifts?

I hate the "too late" discourse. Best time to curb emissions is the past, next best time is now. The fastest we act, the better off we’ll be.

I have this nagging feeling that this posture is just preparing public opinion for geoengineering, the last grift before collapse. Maybe its cause as well. Oh and fatalism is going to help undermine current decarbonizing efforts too, so win-win for big money.

The model will just go "42" on and on and it'll be the first decent joke a neural network produces. It'll be worth it in a way.

"Alien intelligence" is the most pathetic excuse so far for the fact their models can't be made sense of.

I wonder how much they'll charge for it.

Oh that AIDS. bruh