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Wild that "We left OpenAI and founded out own company with alignment and safety"-Anthropic decides to get into bed with Palantir of all companies.

It's almost as if their whole safety shtick is complete bullshit. Hmm.

This is the write-up on the idea of toxic productivity I've been meaning to do for a while now and have teased a few times on the Stubsack already.

I tried to cite and reference and give credit where I could, but a lot of still is still mental vomit from myself and just my opinions. Feel free to comment, critique, or rip it apart if you feel like it. Other than that, thanks for reading.

Fuck me sideways. Looks like the machine will continue running at least for a while.

That’ll go down well with everyone and not erode the public’s opinion about the shitheads even further, I’m sure, when they’re allowed to ingest everything and make their chatbots even more racist and plagiarize even more stuff.

For anyone who wants a belated Halloween scare:

https://xcancel.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1852033244729860397

Spoiler: The real kicker is in the hash tags.

I keep hearing that stupid-face thumbnails generate more clicks and more and more people do it, and yet every single person you ask says they think it’s fucking stupid, including the creators themselves. I really wonder who these people they A-B test this with are, or if this is just some Google Autoplag Bot that estimates it’s better because it falls flat into their uncanny valley home territory.

Alignment-locked races (or classes for that matter) are just stupid. It’s probably the thing I hated about D&D the most and getting rid of alignment altogether was one of our house rules. I’m actually really happy Baldur’s Gate 3 did that, because suddenly a whole bunch of players realized how you can easily work around those restrictions.

It’s so much more fun when you travel to, say, the Abyss and don’t operate under the pretense that everything you meet there is chaotic evil by default and that you could maybe even meet a morally complex demon. Even more fun in a Planescape campaign.

/off-topic rant

Dark Elf you say? Let’s ship his ass to Menzoberranzan and see how the NRx shit does there.

If Garcia does win the suit, it'd more than likely set a legal precedent which denies Section 230 protection to chatbots, if not AI-generated content in general.

I’m not gonna lie, that would be hilarious just for the monkey paw effect. They want chatbots to take the place of real employees? Let’s start with holding them to the same standards and treat everything they shit out as first-party content.

Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders (DEAL) Act

That can’t possibly be the actual name of that thing. It sounds like something out of North Korea. The fuck are these people smoking?

That was the day when the transformer paper was released that kicked off this whole LLM shitshow. So my intention was just a little nod towards that. ;)

But yeah, the real number is probably quite a bit larger than that.

Day 2686 of wondering how much Google can keep enshittifying everything it touches before people catch on.

I really wonder what the meeting looked like where they decided on that change, because I’m struggling coming up with a single argument for it that doesn’t boil down to giving abusive asshats more playtime.