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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
Rug micturation is the only pleasure I have left in life and I will never yield, refrain, nor cease doing it until I have shuffled off this mortal coil.
careful about including the solution
Its not gonna be legislation that destroys ai, it gonna be decade old shitposts that destroy it.
Everyone who neglected to add the "/s" has become an unwitting data poisoner
...yet
Posts there are expired and deleted over time, so unless someone's made an effort to archive them, they're gone.
Of course, the AI people could hoover up new horrible posts.
Yea there are multiple 4chan archives...
Feed an A.I. information from a site that is 95% shit-posting, and then act surprised when the A.I. becomes a shit-poster... What a time to be alive.
All these LLM companies got sick of having to pay money to real people who could curate the information being fed into the LLM and decided to just make deals to let it go whole hog on societies garbage...what did they THINK was going to happen?
The phrase garbage in, garbage out springs to mind.
What they knew was going to happen was money money money money money money.
"Externalities? Fucking fancy pants English word nonsense. Society has to deal with externalities not meeee!"
This is what happens when you let the internet raw dog AI
This is what happens when you just throw unvided content at an AI. Which was why this was a stupid deal to do in the first place.
They're paying for crap.