Literally just mainlining marketing material straight into whatever’s left of their rotting brains.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    (like consider almost succeeding and driving a fledgling, sentient being insane because you fed it a torrent of garbage)

    Microsoft Tay, after one day exposed to internet nazis sus-torment

    I went back when the ML boom and sat in on a class - the same prof had cut all of that out of the curriculum. he said it was cause the students complained about it and the new department had told him to focus on teaching them how to write/use the tech and they'd add an ethics class later.

    agony-deep

    instead, we just have an entire generation who have been taught to fail the Turing test against a chatbot that can't remember what it said a paragraph ago

    And like the LLMs themselves, they'll confidently be wrong and assume knowledge and mastery that they simply don't have, as seen in this thread. berdly-smug

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      Microsoft Tay, after one day exposed to internet nazis

      even less coherent. a neural net trained on a bad corpus won't even produce words. it's like mashing your face on the keyboard in a way that produces things that sound like words, inserted into and around actual, incomprehensible text. honestly, reading what gpt3 produced, I think that what was happening to a degree and they were doing postprocessing to extract usable text.

      And like the LLMs themselves, they'll confidently be wrong and assume knowledge and mastery that they simply don't have, as seen in this thread.

      did they get banned? I expected more angry, nonsense replies. "did chatgpt write this?" is such a fun and depressing game.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        There were at least 3 computer touchers riding the LLM hype wave in this thread. I don't know if any of them were banned and one of them is a local.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            7 months ago

            Two, now that I checked, actually. Starting here. Packed with crude reductionism flavor!

            https://hexbear.net/comment/4289827