this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
33 points (97.1% liked)

TechTakes

2566 readers
64 users here now

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

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
33
OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 1 day ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-E6oSeIMLw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250506-openai-gpt-55-goes-goblin-mode - podcast

time: 5 min 30 sec

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Here's some slobslicker whose stating model collapse is cool actually because human culture also has a bunch of weird quirks

https://davidoks.blog/p/language-models-are-weird-for-the

a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that "so what if it's stupid, people are stupid too" well yeah but that's not the promise is it. The promise is PhDs on tap, not average Facebook poster

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 13 hours ago

a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that “so what if it’s stupid, people are stupid too”

I have to assume that people who assert this "defense" will be incapable of designing tools that don't insult the user