actually I'd kind of love to hear some thoughts on this from a teenager, I guess all paradigm-shifting technology has folks complaining about how it's gonna make us lose a piece of our humanity and I know when I was young I would make fun of older people going "why do I need a MOBILE phone" or "GPS is stupid learn how to read a map"
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 04:19 (five months ago) link
Checking out this website builder ai that just shits out a webflow site from an ai prompt lol fuck me
i really hate this style of website
https://www.relume.io/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 23 May 2024 04:50 (five months ago) link
Where are you seeing ai generated comedy skits?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 23 May 2024 06:00 (five months ago) link
The AI generated comedy stuff I enjoyed - mostly the steamed hams forever channel - I enjoyed exactly because it was very clearly done by a machine that has no sense of what funny is and no idea what the material put into it means, and so there was a slapstick appeal to seeing it vomit out these countless bizarre variations, I know this is antropromorphic but it felt like having a little fucked up robot pal who keeps trying and failing to produce something.
Not a vein of comedy with a lot of legs but I was hooked longer than I thought I'd be!
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 23 May 2024 07:33 (five months ago) link
Don't think this will happen but a lot of money will be lost on "AI startups" and this could induce a deep recession.
Quite incredible that the tech industry is intent on destroying itself completely via LLM.Google search: rapidly becoming useless. Windows: Copilot+ renders it unusable. The whole internet is being turned into tie-dye scrambled egg thanks to the stupidity and hubris of AI bros. https://t.co/6CTC9U5DFr— Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis) May 23, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 08:04 (five months ago) link
maybe one day you can just think about it real hard
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:49 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
time to volunteer as a test-subject at neuralink!
― mark s, Thursday, 23 May 2024 09:01 (five months ago) link
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, May 23, 2024 1:00 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'm not, just saying on podcasts I'm seeing graphics and songs get outsourced to AI sometimes which is fine in service of a dumb joke but it always sorta takes me out of it. maybe its just me though. I guess I'm fine with some of this stuff just don't want it to become bigger than it is.
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 12:35 (five months ago) link
I was (still am) pretty interested in media literacy in the early 2000s, like I thought with the rise of Wikipedia and online news articles being able to link to their sources so you could read more/check they were representing it accurately (particularly science journalism but hoped it would filter through), I guess I naively hoped that with everyone finally realising that just because it's on your computer screen doesn't mean it wasn't made up by some random person, your average person might pause for a second before taking something at face value because it's "in print" somewhere. I sort of expected that we'd be forced to get better at filtering out junk from legit content through necessity. Obviously you'd still have loads of people manipulated by YouTube videos or ranting Twitter feeds but twas ever thus.and the onslaught of AI generated gobsmackingly WRONG content (I got Google gemini to do a very basic maths question and it just... kept lying to me about the numbers I'd given it) makes me realise, nope, belief in human-sounding text strings is being prioritised at all costs by the uber-tech guys and it totally depresses me.
― kinder, Thursday, 23 May 2024 12:59 (five months ago) link
Seems the origin of the Google AI’s conclusion was an 11 year old Reddit post by the eminent scholar, fucksmith. https://t.co/fG8i5ZlWtl pic.twitter.com/0ijXRqA16y— Kurt Opsahl @k✧✧✧@ms✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@kurtopsahl) May 23, 2024
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:03 (five months ago) link
https://udm14.com/
― 龜, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:06 (five months ago) link
frogbs longer post otm
― z_tbd, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:48 (five months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/23/michael-schumacher-family-win-legal-case-against-publisher-over-fake-ai-interview
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 15:13 (five months ago) link
whether this answer is a hallucination or not, this seems bad, to me
hey can you repeat that last part pic.twitter.com/HksGRMeXUU— Giovanni Colantonio (@MarioPrime) May 22, 2024
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:23 (five months ago) link
ah interesting
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 May 2024 16:24 (five months ago) link
that's kind of an interesting wrinkle to this stuff, it doesn't know how to lie or use corporate speak. i'm sure companies will find ways to clean this up (for example I'm sure a lot of time was spent on Elon Musk's AI to ensure it can't say anything bad or truthful about him), but right now it seems like a good prompt can still fool it
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:14 (five months ago) link
― z_tbd, Thursday, May 23, 2024 9:48 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^ totally
it really was kind of a digital library
this is kind of why i find the whole situation depressing. i mean, it's like we had an opportunity to share all media infinitely and instead it's like a few losers who are pathologically focused on profit took a shit in the whole thing and destroyed our society in the process.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:23 (five months ago) link
to me it just kind of reinforces the fact that most or maybe all of the internet is "fake" and "not real life" -- i do realize that's almost become like a generational shibboleth but i don't really care if somebody thinks that it's a boomer mentality
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:25 (five months ago) link
most or maybe all of the internet is "fake" and "not real life"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:32 (five months ago) link
First world problems, sorry
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:35 (five months ago) link
capitalism's effect on society is a first world problem?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:56 (five months ago) link
the other thing is all the ways the internet has 'improved' has been undone by this shit. sure you don't get pop-up ads anymore, instead ads have integrated themselves into every other part of the online experience. social media has exerted enormous effort into making ads look like real posts. there aren't computer viruses the way there used to be but now it feels like viruses just come pre-installed. I recently bought a new PC and the amount of shit it comes with that I don't want is just mind boggling. sometimes it'll even display little ads for it on boot-up, like hey why not try Candy Crush? that's the shit computer viruses used to do! its also true that you don't randomly encounter disgusting/gory/pornographic stuff as often as you used to, but again the algorithms seem geared to feed us psychologically damaging things everywhere we go, like I'd rather see goatse than load up my browser and immediately get hit with "PUTIN INSIDER SAYS NUCLEAR WAR IMMINENT!"
yes I know you can turn some of this shit off. they make it difficult to figure out how. and somehow my computer has a way of factory resetting these particular options every few weeks. very cool.
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:12 (five months ago) link
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink
The internet and algs going to shit is what's being talked about.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:28 (five months ago) link
what's your point exactly
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:59 (five months ago) link
everyone in the world goes online pretty much or at least like 80% of them
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 May 2024 21:00 (five months ago) link
xp we have much bigger problems
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 21:15 (five months ago) link
we sure do. this is what i feel like talking about though
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 May 2024 21:27 (five months ago) link
Not stopping anyone
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 21:28 (five months ago) link
frogbs otm
― kinder, Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:10 (five months ago) link
In that the Internet is the delivery system for so much media, news, banking, personal interactions, etc. (and far from that just being the case in the first world) the ways it is continually getting worse ranks pretty high on the problem list
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:27 (five months ago) link
^^^
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:34 (five months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreievrt2aygi7vpodlyp37fvaydrxyfh62dxhcfk4n4ifspevim7oqq@jpeghttps://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreieamycd7ezylmxtblb44l7rbmx77pruh65qeba6juj7sfeh554h4y@jpeg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:12 (five months ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Most of these predate AI. Call me when AI disinformation actually causes a revolution (which things like social media claimed they had a hand on).
Right now its telling me that I should eat 1x small rock a day.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:23 (five months ago) link
I don’t know, was the World Wide Web really ever a reliable source of information? SEO vs random folks just thinking about things. But I love when I run into an old school style .edu page explaining some physics concept or something, those seem to be evergreen.
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:32 (five months ago) link
The Food Pyramid is literally a pyramid!
― nickn, Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:58 (five months ago) link
xp probably not but I think it was at least easier to discern who was full of it and who wasn't, as opposed to AI which gives you like 95% good info and 5% stuff compiled from an 11-year Redditor
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2024 00:02 (five months ago) link
interesting googles thing is returning actual specific stuff its absorbed kinda just rephrasing search results, lil different than the other ai stuff thats averaging everything out
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 May 2024 00:09 (five months ago) link
So as this example shows we are circling the drain. Not sure how it follows that we are getting from hilarious search results to "every aspect of our daily lives will suck even more now". Fellas, your job is far more likely to suck than this ever will.
The danger of LLM “AI” is not its power, it’s in its shittiness that threatens to subsume the rest of the internet (and by extension most aspects of our daily lives) for SEEMINGLY NO REASON— punished giorgio (@GMomurder) May 23, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 May 2024 08:29 (five months ago) link
Well good news on that front, plenty of ppl will be losing their job to AI.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 24 May 2024 08:56 (five months ago) link
Right-wing pundits are going to lose jobs.
OpenAI to start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal https://t.co/2GKoWvcHmh— The Associated Press (@AP) May 24, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:51 (five months ago) link
We won't be able to use the Internet to fact check inside three years but AI is cool. It's fun to say, at least.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 24 May 2024 14:18 (five months ago) link
so that one is saying its last updated dataset was in 2021, have any of these been updated since stuff like ChatGPT went mainstream? because if it's pulling stuff from 11 year old Redditors it sure as hell would pull in a ton of AI-generated data if it were to be updated today, meaning this stuff is more likely to get worse not better
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:28 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/i3zV1NC.jpeg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 May 2024 11:36 (five months ago) link
that's another Onion pull
― rob, Saturday, 25 May 2024 13:12 (five months ago) link
A relevant LinkedIn post I saw earlier today https://t.co/8INVFAOWT5 pic.twitter.com/dQXnlzqucL— Ryan Bloom (@BlazeHedgehog) May 24, 2024
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 25 May 2024 14:39 (five months ago) link
i guess everybody on Facebook for the message about now being raw material for their ai. you can opt out but they want an essay with reasons why and even then might ignore you anyway
― koogs, Saturday, 25 May 2024 14:48 (five months ago) link
for / saw
ffs, they should improve autocorrect first
― koogs, Saturday, 25 May 2024 14:49 (five months ago) link
facebook obvs will do whatever they want as they always have, your data is their data
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 May 2024 14:59 (five months ago) link
i just hope instagram doesn't take a peek at all of this
― z_tbd, Saturday, 25 May 2024 15:05 (five months ago) link
https://thebaseballlifestyle.com/why-does-the-baseball-player-wear-pearls/
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 May 2024 16:04 (five months ago) link
Pearls are a timeless accessory and have been worn by baseball players for many years. They are seen as a symbol of good luck, team spirit, and fashion. They can also help the player feel more confident and give them a sense of power and strength.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 May 2024 16:05 (five months ago) link