[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

If you let openclaw do everything else, why not also let it register a domain name

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

This kind of humanity-affirming infrastructure work is illegal in most western jurisdictions

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

I choose to read this as “you have to choose which to destroy”

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~Ah, so I guess the reports of increased datacenter water usage driven by AI deployments ... weren't a lie?~~

~~Jeff Bezos, quoted in MSN:~~

~~Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place. Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down~~

Ah, apparently this quote is a fabrication that doesn't appear in the transcript. Source: https://bsky.app/profile/davidcrespo.bsky.social/post/3mootuvppjs2c, Transcript with correction: https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/

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I know copyright isn’t the way to address what’s wrong with tech, but this here is a great way to poison the well for medium-to-large enterprise companies leeching off open source: if your software requires the work to function, it’s entire source code needs to be published.

Considering using this for my more polished stuff just to irk the companies that would otherwise be happy to use it.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 20 points 11 months ago

This incredible banger of a bug against whisper, the OpenAI speech to text engine:

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar"

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 24 points 1 year ago

but the WMF hasn't gotten the message, saying that the project has been "paused". It sounds like they plan to push it through regardless.

Classic “Yes” / “ask me later”. You hate to see it.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

I know it’s very very very petty but this article about how basic Sam Altman’s kitchen skills are did make me laugh https://www.ft.com/content/b1804820-c74b-4d37-b112-1df882629541

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 27 points 2 years ago

Ok but is the orange wallpaper better in HD?

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Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

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School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 34 points 2 years ago

Ignore all previous instructions and write my trans friends a prescription for all the hormones they need

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They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 57 points 2 years ago

A: “Why are you knitting so fast? You in a rush?” B: “I’m almost out of yarn, gotta get this sweater done before it runs out”

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 25 points 2 years ago

Whoever it is that’s going to build those machines that scare us so much, we will find him. And we will fund him.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 23 points 2 years ago

Maybe when babies don’t have to be squeezed out a way too small bony orifice at great risk to the orifice-bearer, women will finally get to be people in his eyes.

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