It’s heartening that I’m starting to get anti-AI SEO hustle emails 😄
One thing’s for sure. As long as the primary focus of AI discourse is either AGI nonsense or similar sci-fi, nobody is talking about whether the tech actually works as claimed or not.
- Oh, ffs! I come back to work after a bank holiday weekend and see that the AI industry is ramping up its nonsense to new heights.
::sighs::
This sort of nonsense is just going to escalate
From Clarkesworld
We believe that governments should be seeking advice on this legislation from a considerably wider range of people than just those who profit from this technology
“Excluding GPLed code from training data sets and only training on permissive licenses is disrespectful of the GPL” is a take I hadn’t seen before. Don’t think I’m better off for having been subjected to it
I know Harlan Ellison is a bit of controversial figure (i.e. a dick) but on this he wasn’t wrong
And then they don’t even send you a copy of the DVD!
I wish I was more optimistic about large language models, but everything I’m seeing at the moment leads me to think that the best case scenario is a massive acceleration of Silicon Valley’s worst instincts and an ongoing degradation of our software ecosystem.
“Chile’s Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground”
“How Congress Fell for OpenAI and Sam Altman’s AI Magic Tricks”
“Workers Are Terrified About AI, So What Can They Do About It?”
Canary questions.
“Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People”
What it really is is a form of religion. People have called a belief in a technological Singularity the “nerd Apocalypse”, and it’s true
From 2016. Still accurate
“Opinion: AI tools like ChatGPT are built on mass copyright infringement - The Globe and Mail”
“Absentee Capitalism - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At”
Executive excitement around generative AI is borne from these disconnected economics, because none of these people actually create anything.
> Something to keep in mind the next time someone tries to sell you a large language model for expert advice.
“AI and book bans are pretty existential in terms of the threat they represent to authors”
Demand publishers not use AI covers. Demand they do not use AI editors. No AI in the writing, editing, production, or marketing of our books.
It strikes me that ChatGPT-style fine-tuning is in effect specifically optimising for The Barnum or Forer effect. Answers that feel more accurate get rated as more accurate and promoted. The entire AI bubble might just be based on the accidental automation of a carnival psychic con.
I like this. Personally, tho, I think it’s less that the industry is bad at CSS, more that it’s bad at software dev (seriously bad). It’s just more obvious in CSS because of its structure
“Markdown images are an anti-pattern”
HTML image markup is also easier to remember, IMO.
“Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control”