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Kwaze Kwaze

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Enjoys landscapes and logistics. Candide is better as a musical.

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · Nov 7

"AI is here to stay"
My guy, it's had practical applications for over a decade.

"It's not going away"
Neat, neither is plastic.

"We have to adapt"
Great! Let's regulate and enforce or push for more equitable laws around data rights and labor.

"No not like that"

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 1d

Like the BIGGEST danger of Generative AI, particularly in Journalism, isn’t in it’s ability to fabricate lies, its instead a side-effect of that: that people will doubt the truth, even when presented hard evidence. AI is pushing us toward a dangerous cultural psychosis, where reality doesn’t exist.

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tante @tante.cc · 2d

There is a special place in hell for AI boosters who claimed stochastic parrots to be the best thing ever and who now pivot to talking (usually in the form of criti-hype) about the societal dangers of Sora2.

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 3d

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa."

Serious team of spies whose mission as always is to kill Hitler

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 3d

People over the age of 50 were 20 or older in 1995. The computer did nothing but get better for most of their life. "New thing in computer" has always been a net good for the average gen-Xer.

It's a really fun & almost counterintuitive case of old guys stuck in their ways not adapting to change

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 4d

Man, drop kick me for saying it but, as evil as the people behind this are, I don't think this stuff is supercharging disinformation and implying it is is really giving this stuff more power/credit than it has or deserves.

Anonymous qanon posts were just as credible to these people.

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 4d

checking sources* whatever

They call out the problem but insist they're actually using it right, unlike all the other girls.

Everyone thinks they're using it right! Everyone insists they're checking! That's the other half of the equation! I'm going to eat my shirt.

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 4d

"Research is deeply unreliable without checking surface and using LLMs to speed up the research process and publish results in a degradation of the information space it searches"
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"but we still use it as a faster Google alternative"

Genuine insanity, what's wrong with these people.

Mahmud Asrar 🪲 @mahmudasrar.bsky.social · 5d

AI slop is ruining our lives. Do not be a part of the problem.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 4d

They are going to say the same thing about water consumption and electricity costs. Prepare for subsidising it to the point of personal bankruptcy without even using it.

Because it's unsustainable, doesn't pay the people whose work it relies on properly and is used to maximise profit for the rich.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe I'm off-base here but we should probably just let women have this one

NPR article "Why do women live longer than men? A study offers clues to close the gap"

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 5d

Few years ago I started noticing more and more people start to frequently and earnestly use the phrase "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" and, while absolutely a fair warning to heed, I can't help but feel that has some correlation with the state of things right now.

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 5d

Information without attribution is a great way to enshrine misinformation in the world. The LLM as it is today is an epistemic black hole. There's no such thing as "raw" information to make freely available, that's not how knowledge works.

Otherwise cool thread

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 7d

How this whole website is set up is meant as an open data platform. Privacy or the illusion thereof doesn't exist. There's no restricted mode. Everything is accessible through the API.

So even if the platform itself doesn't train on your messages, it definitely has people who does.

This is can be-

Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training | TechCrunch

Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content, but there's little stopping third-parties from doing so.

techcrunch.com

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 7d

I think it's really fun how the "My software might be sentient" people skip right over the slavery aspect of that sentence in order to make whatever weird point they wanna make that day.

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 8d

oh no...

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 8d

Checkmate nerd, my eigenvalues just normalized your identity tensor.

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 9d

Can just one of these people not be a stunted little weasel

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 10d

Their own fucking demo reels show this isn't the case how are we still doing this

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 11d

If you're an American citizen you can also go to the ER and just not pay your bill, what's stopping you?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 12d

This is the best video on this I've ever seen

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 12d

you could call someone saying "i'm so much more efficient bro trust me bro" a study with n=0 because there isn't any other number

a "use case" is what someone claims as justification for a thing that doesn't seem to do anything well

and wasn't designed for a purpose

Dispatch #27: Useful is Nothing

YouTube video by Faster and Worse

www.youtube.com

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone's deleting their skeets today what's up with that

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 14d

The boosters all start the same.

"I agree that this position on LLMs is wrong and unhinged, but they're inevitable."

"I'm not saying everyone has to use them but they're good for me."

"I disagree about the environmental effects."

"What is ✌🏾plagiarism✌🏾REALLY?"

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18d

I mean I care insofar as it means LLM chatter gets confined to the kind of easily ignored spaces that still argue about tabs and fight language wars.

I'd like to not be professionally inundated with calls to waste time on software that wastes my time.

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18d

For the longest time I've believed this is where all of these LLM products were going to end up - just the latest iteration of tabs vs spaces or GUI vs CLI (if tabs or GUIs cost an extra $200/month). A personal preference.

Exciting to see it starting to come to fruition.

Skeet reading "I just like doing less typing [...] I don't care if it makes me measurably more productive. I *like* coding with agents."

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18d

Based on the list description they think this is Twitter where if you block someone first you can still peep on them.

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