Ece A
@abece13.bsky.social
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every single person booing or jeering here should have tomatoes thrown at them
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
every single person booing or jeering here should have tomatoes thrown at them
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*stares at the camera*
We didn't need a study to tell us this?
We didn't need a study to tell us this?
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
*stares at the camera*
We didn't need a study to tell us this?
We didn't need a study to tell us this?
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Truly though: thank you to @paleofuture.bsky.social for performing the now controversial act of Actually Checking Something, and we should be protecting the People Who Actually Check Things with every ounce of energy we've got
I spoke with people in Gaza who've been accused of being scammers or even AI.
The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza
Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.
gizmodo.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Truly though: thank you to @paleofuture.bsky.social for performing the now controversial act of Actually Checking Something, and we should be protecting the People Who Actually Check Things with every ounce of energy we've got
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The only problem is that the citations go to papers that don't actually exist.
July 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The only problem is that the citations go to papers that don't actually exist.
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There is something so fundamentally telling with people who think that “reading a book” and “knowing what the plot is” is the same experience.
July 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There is something so fundamentally telling with people who think that “reading a book” and “knowing what the plot is” is the same experience.
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"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
organizingmythoughts.org
July 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
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I must be clear that AGI and superintelligence are a HUNDRED times stupider than the Metaverse, because the metaverse at the very least had virtual worlds you could point at. There is no proof AGI is possible. None. Zip. Taking it seriously - as in the concept - is doing free marketing.
July 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I must be clear that AGI and superintelligence are a HUNDRED times stupider than the Metaverse, because the metaverse at the very least had virtual worlds you could point at. There is no proof AGI is possible. None. Zip. Taking it seriously - as in the concept - is doing free marketing.
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I will also say that when the AI bubble bursts, I don't think the tech industry is ready for how many people are going to take genuine pleasure in it, even with the economic chaos that will follow. Never in my life have I seen such outright disdain for both tech and its executives
July 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I will also say that when the AI bubble bursts, I don't think the tech industry is ready for how many people are going to take genuine pleasure in it, even with the economic chaos that will follow. Never in my life have I seen such outright disdain for both tech and its executives
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These things are not sentient and they are 100% deliberately doing this to make the world's most expensive encyclopaedia threaten to email your wife if you turn it off
June 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
These things are not sentient and they are 100% deliberately doing this to make the world's most expensive encyclopaedia threaten to email your wife if you turn it off
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"I'm so impressed and scared by this" - a person that could be terrified by peekaboo
June 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"I'm so impressed and scared by this" - a person that could be terrified by peekaboo
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Okay so whenever you read one of these stories about how models are deceitful or blackmailing, remember that a) these stories are from the model companies and b) that the model companies are the ones that program their models
June 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Okay so whenever you read one of these stories about how models are deceitful or blackmailing, remember that a) these stories are from the model companies and b) that the model companies are the ones that program their models
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Genocide? That’s just fine. But don’t you dare spray paint some military planes!
Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemns ‘vandalism’ after activists spray red paint into engines of two Voyager planes.
Pro-Palestinian activists break into UK military base
Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemns ‘vandalism’ after activists spray red paint into engines of two Voyager planes.
bit.ly
June 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Genocide? That’s just fine. But don’t you dare spray paint some military planes!
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen omg whoever made this I love you <3
June 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen omg whoever made this I love you <3
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I don't know if anyone has written about this, but the thing where Google's engineers have designed this software program to spit out text that simulates contrition, grovelling apology feels like something close to admission that they've designed a program they KNOW is fraudulent +are covering it up
June 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I don't know if anyone has written about this, but the thing where Google's engineers have designed this software program to spit out text that simulates contrition, grovelling apology feels like something close to admission that they've designed a program they KNOW is fraudulent +are covering it up
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On a related note: please *please* PLEASE stop doing the double-act of (a) anthropomorphising a sentence generation program and (b) erasing the actual real morally culpable humans who work at these companies and set these parameters from existence
June 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
On a related note: please *please* PLEASE stop doing the double-act of (a) anthropomorphising a sentence generation program and (b) erasing the actual real morally culpable humans who work at these companies and set these parameters from existence
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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
Tried to watch his interview on TED a while ago, he kept saying whatever and looked bored the entire time like I find it so hard to believe he is this charming storyteller
I don’t get why so many people in the media want to kiss up to Sam Altman, honestly. OpenAI is a banana republic with a product that only really grew because Google never bothered to innovate in search. Embarrassing. We should mock Sam Altman
June 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Tried to watch his interview on TED a while ago, he kept saying whatever and looked bored the entire time like I find it so hard to believe he is this charming storyteller
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Backlash is the only thing that works, here. Without backlash, automated, unstoppable lie generation will seep into and infect every single space that human-created information exists
Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.
www.404media.co
June 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Backlash is the only thing that works, here. Without backlash, automated, unstoppable lie generation will seep into and infect every single space that human-created information exists
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Fossil fuel harm and Israel's genocide are linked in literal ways, but one of the more indirect links is how media outlets actively and consciously set out to defend, minimise and reframe the violence of the aggressors
Eg:
Eg:
BREAKING: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, Israel's Foreign Ministry says.
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Fossil fuel harm and Israel's genocide are linked in literal ways, but one of the more indirect links is how media outlets actively and consciously set out to defend, minimise and reframe the violence of the aggressors
Eg:
Eg:
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don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage
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As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.
June 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.
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Synthetic text extruding machines are power- (and water-)hungry, and they serve the interest of powerful people by attracting (even more) venture capital cash, serving as an excuse to collect ever more data, and (sometimes) serving as an excuse to punt on the climate crisis.
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June 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Synthetic text extruding machines are power- (and water-)hungry, and they serve the interest of powerful people by attracting (even more) venture capital cash, serving as an excuse to collect ever more data, and (sometimes) serving as an excuse to punt on the climate crisis.
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It clearly illustrates one of the themes of my Empire of AI book tour: the greatest "horizontal" threat of allowing AI companies like xAI & OpenAI to empire-build unfettered is their ability to hijack democratic processes & leave people with a profound loss of agency to self-determine their future.
June 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It clearly illustrates one of the themes of my Empire of AI book tour: the greatest "horizontal" threat of allowing AI companies like xAI & OpenAI to empire-build unfettered is their ability to hijack democratic processes & leave people with a profound loss of agency to self-determine their future.