Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

in the good timeline, GPT finally trains humanity to understand that someone who's eloquent is not therefore automatically trustworthy

Quora, StackOverflow, etc. try to rebrand themselves and leverage their karma/social graphs as walled gardens of verified Real Human (TM) experts. This creates incentives for humans to cheat, of course.

Like I knew this was gonna be used for fake-grassroots political messaging--remember talking with a friend about a DoD project to do exactly this circa 2012. Somehow took me a bit to connect that to "finding any kind of meaningful information is going to get harder".

Searching for "replace air filter on a Samsung SG-3560lgh" is gonna return fifty Quora/WikiHow style sites named "How to replace the air filter on a Samsung SG3560lgh" with paragraphs of plausible, grammatical GPT-generated explanation which may or may not have any connection to reality. Site owners pocket the ad revenue. AI arms race as search engines try to detect and derank LLM content.

Wikipedia starts getting large chunks of LLM text submitted with plausible but nonsensical references.

God, search results are about to become absolute hot GARBAGE in 6 months when everyone and their mom start hooking up large language models to popular search queries and creating SEO-optimized landing pages with plausible-sounding results.

the funniest part of all this I'm realising now though is that these dipshits can no longer just scrape the internet for posts as examples of human writing, they've already polluted that data with their own bots

Trans people just want to fucking live. You know what I'm saying? We want to have a safe home, we want to eat in a restaurant on occasion, we want to hang out with friends, we want to fall in love and be loved back. We want to have fun and dress up sometimes and stay at home on our couches sometimes and have a life that is fulfilling and in which we aren't constantly in fear of murder or harassment. This is not new and it's not radical and it's not harming you or anyone else to ask for it.

no gods no thought leaders

I caved and tried to pose some philosophical dilemmas to ChatGPT. It's very good at flat-out ignoring anything that shows it's being inconsistent. 10/10 simulation of arguing with a random Redditor.

i spent my whole day remaking https://tiredand.gay/keygender/ into a real windows app. works from Win95 up to Win10. ^-^

that was vaguely fun. and also frustrating (because I tried to make it work on Win3.1 - kids, don't smoke Win16 apps).

grab it here: https://sdomi.pl/tmp/keygen.exe

My career as a disabled artist who makes art about my experiences as a disabled trans person can be summed up via an excerpt from the last grant rejection letter I received:

“…while the members of the selection panel felt your art was evocative, accomplished, and beautiful, we collectively felt the subject matter of disability would disturb and upset art patrons. Your work was ultimately rejected because we felt it wouldn’t resonate with the public.”

…My reality.

#MastoArt #disabled

Any time I see someone post about gpt et al it is so hard to stop myself from replying. Remember that openai is a techno-fascist accelerationist/longtermist/‘rationalist’ organization and these systems are drive by the belief that human consciousness is the same as computation, and that our duty to the future is to make real “general” ai. They are anti-human (anti-life imo), routinely privatize public research, pilfer publicly available data without ethics, and are actively trying to build a dark future that is bad for all of us. They are funded by musk and thiel.

They are to be avoided and actively countered where possible.

idk how people are getting chatgpt to do any useful programming. maybe i need to turn on the dark theme lol

Are you happy on your current Mastodon instance/server?

Please boost to help this #poll scoot about the #fediverse, thanks

we were so worried about "malware" (software that deliberately spreads and causes harm) that we forgot to protect against "mallware" (software that transforms every single computing experience into a shopping mall) and it took over the world oops