antifuchs

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Here’s a pretty good sneer at the writing out of LLMs, with a focus on meaning https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing

Maybe that’s my problem with AI-generated prose: it doesn’t mean anything because it didn’t cost the computer anything. When a human produces words, it signifies something. When a computer produces words, it only signifies the content of its training corpus and the tuning of its parameters.

Also, on people:

I see tons of essays called something like “On X” or “In Praise of Y” or “Meditations on Z,” and I always assume they’re under-baked. That’s a topic, not a take.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, three of the worst people alive today talking about how objects are indistinguishable from women.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guess we’re doing stupid identity verification orbs now: https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/01/this-is-like-black-mirror-sam-altmans-creepy-eye-scanner-project-launches-in-sf/

Instead of this expensive imitation of a voigt-kampff test I would suggest an alternative method of detecting if a personoid is really a human or an instrument of an evil inhuman intelligence that wishes to consume all of earth: check if their net worth is closer to a billion dollars than it is to being broke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

They insist on putting ever more important things (now it’s our souls and minds! lol and lmao) into ever more complex and failure-prone systems, none of these motherfuckers have built or maintained a computer in decades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I’m sure whoever put money into that venture will see dramatically amazing returns, now there’s a founder that will not take the money and run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It’s kind of a distinction without much discriminatory power: LLMs are a tool created to ease the task of bullshitting; used to produce bullshit by bullshitters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rødes of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Which also isn’t about either of those things.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

My favorite meme message board on the internet keeps putting out bangers, but this one is extra good and relevant http://www.b3ta.com/board/11416629

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Also he wrote borderline anti-woke stuff back when doing that could still appear edgy and icky.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Really wonder if his own pictures are included in the training set (as negative examples, of course)

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