antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Workers organizing against genai policies in the workplace: http://workersdecide.tech/

Sounds like exactly the thing unions and labor organizing is good for. Glad to see it.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They’re doing eugenics ads on the nyc subway https://hexa.club/@phooky/115640559205329476

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Yup that’s one of them. The cryptonomicon protagonist no-nut-Novembering all the way to the ww2 treasure is another special fave

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Lmao imagine reading a Stephenson book and being peeved that it ends

(His sex scenes are far far far worse than his endings, those are a mercy)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah yes, the classic open source guy stance of “you get to praise me publicly but direct criticism or problems to [over there]”

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

PR for AI slop generated DWARF support for ocaml. Expectation: doesn’t work

Reality: replicates existing support from another project including attribution to the author.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

I would love this, lmfao

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Claims to be against politics in the workplace, takes down rightwing websites anyway

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

This might be one of those “careful what you wish for” scenarios. The neutral outcome might well be that they generate dialog with training data from Scots Wikipedia. Or Scots Grokipedia I guess

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh look at that, another report on the economics of ai datacenter buildouts https://publicenterprise.org/report/bubble-or-nothing/

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, how often can one guy be right

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

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