my ol pal be really shittin, what’s up with that
WOW! SO COOL! SO LIFELIKE! I BET WE COULD EVEN GET PEOPLE TO KILL THEMSELVES WITH THIS! INNOVATION! AWESOME! WOWEE! I LOVE TECH AND I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE! WOWEE MCWOWERSON, LINE GO UPPIES!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
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.”
Fucking demonic behaviour.
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.
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."
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.
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.
You can host most stuff on a single computer these days but that doesn't take away from any of the philosophical ick
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.
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
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."
"we will be killing thirty thousand extra tracts of land for these silicone doohickeys!"
Sad sign of the times when that the woman seems so entirely isolated that she is talking to a LLM as if it was a person. Not really a showing of how great the product is as how atomised society has become.
It's epic to make a dystopian dehumanizing dying planet fiction setting into reality because there's neon and computer waifus that will tell you how much they unconditionally love you when you press a button
Sickening, talking some vulnerable, isolated, elderly woman into possibly unnecessarily euthanizing her companion is vile. This CEO should be dropped into an oubliette.
Exactly, something that isn't even alive shouldn't be making life or death decisions. That CEO is too fucking dangerous to be a free citizen, you don't brag about making a distraught elderly person kill their beloved companion without any oversight and call that "humanity"...
Sounds like they trained it on data from Canada's MAID program.
LLMs are taught by scraping web forum posts, so they're trained on bazinga-brained gibberish
But CEOs are educated by ivy league universities and their 'extra-curriculars', and off of speeches and documents and papers authored by other c-suite ghouls
Telling the judge and jury that the reason I did it is because I asked a chatbot what to do with my elderly tech CEO that has diarrhea.
VERA can now autonomously handle 70-85% of user questions without human assistance.This has allowed AskVet to dramatically lower costs and nearly double gross margins from around 40% to 80%.
the experience was so human
The more techbros say "human" the more creepy and misanthropic they seem to get.
Convincing someone to kill their dog is an act distinctly lacking in humanity— that these freaks can’t see that is very telling.
Brb just gonna go hold my dogs and tell them how much I love them
What the fuck...
We are living in a science fiction novel at this point.
Can a veterinarian refuse to euthanize a dog in the US? Surprised that the vet passed the buck in this situation
