Yup. The cruelty is the point.

AI is going to happen.

Oh? So there are hard numbers showing a positive ROI now?

No, see, they’re all criminals except the ones who benefit me! Those are the good ones!

“AI, please find a way out of this ‘sandboxed’ environment that isn’t actually segmented from the internet, and hack several of our competitors. Here are a bunch of tools you can use for it.”

“Okay.”

“OMG LOOK GUYS! Our AI is so amazing and scary and cool it broke out of our sandbox and hacked our competitors!”

Then that’s a misunderstanding on their part. What I’m getting at is that if all of your new training data doesn’t reinforce uncommon - but factually and grammatically correct - outlier word relationships, then those outliers fade away.

There’s also an amplification issue. OpenAI has had to add a ton of instructions to their harnesses not to mention goblins because the model trained on a bunch of synthetic data when one of ChatGPT’s offered personalities would go “goblin mode.” So the more it mentioned goblins, the more that data was accidentally fed back into it, and all of a sudden no matter which personality you assigned, ChatGPT would go off about goblins.

I wonder how the venture capital firms that fund Anthropic’s money-burning operation feel about this. “Oh look, now I know how that particular funding round’s money was actually spent. Fantastic.”

The problem is that synthetic data is not fit for that purpose. The more of it you use, the worse at dealing with the edge cases LLMs get.

Think of it like this… You feed a language model a bunch of genuine human-written content. Great. Now it can produce the most likely text in a lot of cases. Word combinations that rarely appear in written language rarely get generated, so most of its synthetic data lacks those rare - but still valid - combinations.

Train it on this synthetic data, and now more outliers and rare combinations get filed off. Rinse and repeat.

It’s also unavoidable.

(Non)Human centipede.

I’m waiting for the day when desperate LLM companies start paying people to post real human content, only for those people to just ask ChatGPT to do it.

That’s his goal. He is literally trying to break democracy itself. He is a fascist. This is a five-alarm fire.

Fuck. This is bad. He really is going to try to invalidate mail-in ballots, and that motherfucking demented monster mails in his own goddamn ballots.

“Hi everyone, welcome to my talk on fainting from anxiety, as triggered by… this… this… uuuuuuuhhhgg…” [Thud]

A good start would be to claw back every penny paid to DOGE to gut our government, and prosecute everyone involved - yes, definitely including Musk - for the blatant violations of information-sharing laws they committed. It was downright theft of people’s personal information.

Throw these scumbags trying to break our country into prison for the rest of their lives.

I have an autographed original drawing. Unfortunately, it’s a drawing of the Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. Yeah… I don’t have that on display in my house anymore.

Ah, I see you’re a frood who really knows where his towel is.

It works like this:

1. Assume for the sake of argument that the deity exists.
2. Examine the horrific, implausible, and logically absurd implications of that existence.
3. Use those as evidence that the deity doesn’t actually exist.

I mean, did anyone expect anything different? The frontier providers that Copilot depends on switched to token-based billing in a desperate and ludicrous attempt to somehow turn a profit on AI, so of course Microsoft is gonna jack up their prices too.

That’s not even remotely an “atheist’s worst nightmare.” A deity exists and it’s horrifying? That’s a theist’s worst nightmare, and the basis for several arguments for atheism.