• Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
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    28 days ago

    The CEO regarded us with satisfaction for his chatbot’s work: that, through a series of escalating tactics, it had convinced a woman to end her dog’s life, though she hadn’t wanted to at all. “The point of this story is that the woman forgot she was talking to a bot,” he said. “The experience was so human.”

    no-mouth-must-scream

    Fucking demonic behaviour. michael-crawl

    • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
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      28 days ago

      When Descartes was talking about ”I think therefore I am” he was trying to ascertain what knowledge he could be certain of as a base to build truth from, given the hypothetical that an evil demon was manipulating his perception of the world about him so he couldn’t believe his lying eyes and ears. I think tech CEOs are trying to make AI perform the role of that specific demon to twist our understanding of reality to do their hideous bidding. Which is apparently killing your dog. scared

    • btfod [he/him, comrade/them]
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      28 days ago

      And this was in response to a question about whether the LLM followed up to validate a diagnosis...

      Q: "Can your LLM ingest feedback to refine future output?"

      CEO: "It can talk vulnerable elderly people into euthanizing their pets."

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      28 days ago

      Yes they have made a fucking demon that needs to be removed from the face of the earth. A computer program less sentient than a virus embodying pure capitalist realist "reason" trained on texts emblematic of humanity at its worst due to the vagaries of capitalism. What the fuck have they done.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        28 days ago

        Every time I hear "but it can be useful sometimes in specific niche cases" I still hear the crackle of rainforests burning so someone can jack off to the infinite boobs generator, because the previous boobs that were already paid for with previous burned rainforest weren't enough.

        • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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          28 days ago

          You can host most stuff on a single computer these days but that doesn't take away from any of the philosophical ick

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            28 days ago

            most stuff on a single computer these days

            The massive increase in electricity costs and carbon footprint is just the wide scale "AI" grifts pushed by the corpos that basically have free rein to continue doing so then.

            • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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              28 days ago

              yeah the individual cost of anything is going to pale in comparison to the unsustainable wide-scale industrialization of that same thing. especially when it's something as exponentially costly as AI/techshit

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                28 days ago

                That's why I feel a deep groaning dread whenever some bloated tech company announces that its entire upcoming product line or service model is going to be "powered by AI." elmofire