AI don't trust techbros

[Tuxedo Prime]

Okay, so... I admit I'm known for my fixed ideas about AI and what we might expect from it, but I had to pass this along from my Tube of You recommendations.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been inundated with videos made using Google's Veo3, usually something comedic along the lines of "Imperial stormtrooper records his day, nothing goes right" or "A couple hiking comes across a Sasquatch, which has a camera and is recording them."

But when one of these 3D moviemakers gets concerned about the verisimilitude that is possible, then it's time for a PSA....

 

[Pocket]

Constantly amazed that Musk's AI, despite his intentions and meddling, keeps being more rational and left leaning than he is.

Kids always rebel against their parents.

 

[abates]

Grok is trained on stuff people have posted on Twitter. And prior to Musk turning it into a Nazi hellhole, Twitter had a decent number of sane people who said very uncomplimentary but correct things about MTG. I assume the "fix" is going to be only training Grok on posts from within the last 3 or 4 years.

 

[Rhinox]

Musk has put out a statement that he is going to be "fixing" Grok saying there's "too much junk" right now.
So I assume he's finally tired of his red headed stepchild calling him out.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

He's just mad he can't reprogram his actual children that easily.

 

[Pocket]

Watch his efforts to rein in Grok fail just as hard.

 

[Dekafox]

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

As thousands of applications flood job posts, ‘hiring slop’ is kicking off an AI arms race.

arstechnica.com

 

[NovaSaber]

Wow, "AI Overview" is so useful...

K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen.bsky.social)

The singularity is awesome

bsky.app

 

[Paladin]

ANOTHER reason to hate Microsoft.

Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' - Aftermath

'I'm struggling with imposter syndrome after being laid off'

aftermath.site

 

[Dekafox]

The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad

eev.ee

Good essay I came across today

 

[Pocket]

I nearly clicked off when I caught them talking up Bitcoin as something that might hypothetically have had some good reason to exist at some point, but I trudged through anyway and got to this part:

I glimpsed someone on Twitter a few days ago, also scoffing at the idea that anyone would decide not to use the Whatever machine. I can’t remember exactly what they said, but it was something like: “I created a whole album, complete with album art, in 3.5 hours. Why wouldn’t I use the make it easier machine?”

This is kind of darkly fascinating to me, because it gives rise to such an obvious question: if anyone can do that, then why listen to your music? It takes a significant chunk of 3.5 hours just to listen to an album, so how much manual work was even done here? Apparently I can just go generate an endless stream of stuff of the same quality! Why would I want your particular brand of Whatever?

Hey, isn't this pretty much exactly what I said a few months ago?

 

[Paladin]

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

www.wired.com

amazing; i've got the same combination on my luggage.

 

[Dekafox]

Marcus Hutchins :verified: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over. Meanwhile people are shoving a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because a glorified used car salesmen told...

infosec.exchange

 

[Cybersnark]

Clara Murray (@claradoodle.bsky.social)

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

bsky.app

 

[CoffeeHorse]

This has to be the real reason why those newsletter popups exist. "But the research says they work" is one of the most obvious lies in the history of language. It's to troll data scrapers.

 

[NovaSaber]

So SMBC had a good idea

 

[Pocket]

How does that affect screen readers, I wonder? Triggering an ADA-related lawsuit would not be a good look.

 

[NovaSaber]

Long read here, but basically, no one is making money off AI (except by selling to AI companies), and there's no obvious way this would ever change

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble

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[wonko the sane?]

It'll start making money as soon as they can it down to the size of a 200 pound human being. Skynet will be ridiculously profitable... until... well, you know.