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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

New piece from The Atlantic: The Age of AI Child Abuse is Here, which delves into a large-scale hack of Muah.AI and the large-scale problem of people using AI as a child porn generator.

And now, another personal sidenote, because I cannot stop writing these (this one's thankfully unrelated to the article's main point):

The idea that "[Insert New Tech] Is Inevitable^tm^" (which Unserious Academic interrogated in depth BTW) took a major blow when NFTs crashed and burned in full view of the public eye and got rapidly turned into a pop-culture punchline.

That, I suspect, is helping to fuel the large scale rejection of AI and resistance to its implementation - Silicon Valley's failure to make NFTs a thing has taught people that Silicon Valley can be beaten, that resistance is anything but futile.

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[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

[https://x.com/shinboson/status/1846000415793463684?s=46](Roko gets dunked on.)

He had some remarkable tweets a few weeks back about how he was the equal of billionaires or some shit. I wish I had shared it.

Is he some kind of computer fondler irl?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Think this might be the first tweet of Roko I somewhat agree with. At least Roko did something somewhat intellectual in creating pascals wager for nerds. Musks intellectual accomplishments are worse. He thinks the derivative function is some sort of glorious masterpiece of math, and he doesn't seem to understand chess. I think the only things he really created was the handle that sinks into the car, and the look of the cybertruck.

Funny to see the Rationalists start to turn on their glorious savior from AGI doom. (Which has been happening for a while now it seems, some even argue he never actually interacted with anybody from the Rationality community (btw before he blocked people being able to see all people you follow on twitter he followed slatestarcodex)))

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (10 children)

If he's so smart, why did he put the car in the asteroid belt and not on a road?

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[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

As anyone who's been paying attention already knows, LLMs are merely mimics that provide the "illusion of understanding".

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