sailor_sega_saturn

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Against my better judgement I typed steve.ai into my browser and yep. It's an AI product.

frodo.ai on the other hand is currently domain parked. It could be yours for the low low price of $43,911

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-23/state-bar-of-california-used-ai-for-exam-questions

When measured for reliability, the State Bar told The Times, the combined scored multiple-choice questions from all sources — including AI — performed “above the psychometric target of 0.80.”

"I dunno why you guys are complaining, we measured our exam to be 80% accurate!"

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I think this article fits here as how this fear mongering reaches government: https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-superintelligence

Eric Schmidt tells the US government that unfathomable amounts of power need to be spun up ASAP because if the US doesn't make robot god first then:

If China comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting

Dedicating the US's entire economic output to scaling corporate LLMs and filling the air with smog would at least have somewhat predictable consequences I suppose.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oh no I was looking for more German flashcard programs (my favorite flashcard website, Seedlang, went down hopefully temporarily) and pretty much everything is forcing AI integrations of some sort.

For example Memrise goes so far as to be condescending and user hostile to people who ask for no AI: https://memrisebeta.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24937487873937-Can-I-disable-Conversations-the-AI-chatbot

It's not possible to disable the suggestions to do Conversations. [...] So, the reason it might seem like we are pushing conversation exercises is that we truly believe immersion is the key to successfully acquiring a language.

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Well excuse me for wanting to get immersion by talking to actual humans and not your shitty chatbot.

I might have to just use Anki like everyone says (my problem with Anki is I spend more time fiddling with database entries and JavaScript than actually studying)

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even with a lot of resources and options and money, and not a lot to tie me down, I have been working to move out of the US since January and it'll take me at least two more months before I actually manage it (longer if my first attempt falls through). It is a lot. Lots of work, lots of waiting, and lots of fretting along the lines of "oh my gosh what am I even doing", lots of trying to figure out where I fit in the world after I've rejected my homeland in my heart.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hear you! If like me you have ever worried that you are overreacting; know that you are not. I have no idea how so many of my coworkers can just treat this all as politics as usual.

My heart breaks for the civilians rounded up and treated as terrorists without due process.

Being transgender I am acutely aware of how close I am to the top of the US autocracy's public enemy list. This is self serving but since January I've been working on getting while the getting is good (plus, I hate that my taxes go to the current federal government).

Me and my three siblings (a librarian, a researcher, and a med student) are all worried for our futures for different reasons; which is statistically just kind of impressive!

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So in the past week or so a lot of pedestrian crossings in Silicon Valley were "hacked" (probably never changed the default password lol) to make them talk like tech figures.

Here are a few. Note that these voices are most likely AI generated.

  1. A crosswalk with the voice of Elon Musk
  2. A crosswalk with the voice of Zuck
  3. Elon Musk crosswalk just wants to be friends (second video) also Zuck crosswalk is proud of his work (third video).

I didn't get to hear any of them in person, however the crosswalk near my place has recently stopped saying "change password" constantly, which I'm happy about.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In this case ドドドド or ゴゴゴゴ are both meme sound effects from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure used in dangerous or unnerving scenes. The meaning here would be something like indicating what a menacing aura that hardcore mofo Yud is giving off.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/menacing-%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B4

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-youre-approaching-me-jojo-approach

https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/10/dodododo.html

Of course the AI doesn't know this so combined the two to produce ゴゴドゴ which just looks kind of stupid.

My go to source for the fact that LLM chatbots suck at writing reasoned replies is https://chatgpt.com/

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Oh gosh I looked up the post and that was a mistake. Actually Mr. Yarvin there is quote tweeting someone who dared, on twitter, to say that the Holocaust was real. The replies (including Yarvin's incorrect & off topic nonsense) being about what you'd expect from twitter nowadays. So much Holocaust denial.

At this point cryptocurrency has a bad enough reputation that they have to try and ease readers into it.

(insert clown getting dressed meme image here)

  1. It's new digg!
  2. AI is bad (but also sexy and all powerful)
  3. so captchas are hard :(
  4. let's make a real fancy captcha!
  5. With... Zero-Knowledge Proofs :D :D :D :D :D (all non cryptocurrency people flee at this point)
  6. Also like NFTs for products you buy so when you shill them people know you're at least a real person doing so (maybe, kinda, sorta)
  7. So anyway I was thinking if only there was something else as ~~dystopian~~ cool as Sam Altman 様's orb thing and we smeared it across the entire internet

Yeah it's called "autopilot"; named after the Tesla technology!

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/

I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.

They aren't interested in anything besides "superintelligence" which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are "cracked" you can join them:

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

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