cyril focht
@ceciltheawesome.bsky.social
"landmark study" proving a thing that you can figure out by
*Checks notes* having a baseline understanding of how ai works.
*Checks notes* having a baseline understanding of how ai works.
"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 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
"landmark study" proving a thing that you can figure out by
*Checks notes* having a baseline understanding of how ai works.
*Checks notes* having a baseline understanding of how ai works.
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Most of the videos I've put on YouTube took a year to make and almost all of them have just gotten a couple hundred views. I wouldn't have kept it up if I wasn't compelled by the craft, but even for those who are and still put it down despite that-I get it.
I often think about other folks who made video essays on youtube, specifically those who stopped.
The ones who made a handful of videos, or just one, then walked away. Maybe it went viral. Maybe none of their videos did.
Selfishly, I'd love for them to make more. As a creator, I get why they dont.
The ones who made a handful of videos, or just one, then walked away. Maybe it went viral. Maybe none of their videos did.
Selfishly, I'd love for them to make more. As a creator, I get why they dont.
August 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Most of the videos I've put on YouTube took a year to make and almost all of them have just gotten a couple hundred views. I wouldn't have kept it up if I wasn't compelled by the craft, but even for those who are and still put it down despite that-I get it.
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if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
August 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
if you are interested in having a deep relationship with art of any kind, you owe it to yourself to start engaging with it the way Stacey describes here, you will have a much better time with every piece you come across and learn a ton in the process
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Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
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good
August 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
good
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No you cannot determine which drugs are safe and effective with machine learning. You cannot. It will not work. People will die.
"At FDA we're accelerating drug approvals so that you don't need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI."
July 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
No you cannot determine which drugs are safe and effective with machine learning. You cannot. It will not work. People will die.
New video on YouTube, making a return to longform content! As with every election, conspiracy theories have been floating around the internet about the 2024 election being hacked in trump's favor. What's plausible? What's bunk? And what concerns does it raise about modern elections?
June 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New video on YouTube, making a return to longform content! As with every election, conspiracy theories have been floating around the internet about the 2024 election being hacked in trump's favor. What's plausible? What's bunk? And what concerns does it raise about modern elections?
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reminder that in most cases what it outputs is something that convincingly resembles an answer to someone who doesn't know enough to produce a correct answer. it produces answer shaped text, is easily nudged to give a different answer, like a fortune teller trying to figure out what you want to hear
May 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
reminder that in most cases what it outputs is something that convincingly resembles an answer to someone who doesn't know enough to produce a correct answer. it produces answer shaped text, is easily nudged to give a different answer, like a fortune teller trying to figure out what you want to hear
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That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.
May 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.
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Directly downstream of recasting college as a work credential than a site of learning.
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Directly downstream of recasting college as a work credential than a site of learning.
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This is spot on, re chatGPT cheating in college. A lot of the moral panic aspect focuses on the tool itself, as if that's the entirety of the problem. And while it isn't great, the widespread usage is definitely a symptom, not a cause, of wider rot in what the education system does to students.
The modern american university has molded itself to companies and jobs and capitalism, and the systems they have in place have been telling students for a while that it's not about critical thinking, it's not about education and learning. It's just job training. The chickens have come home to roost!
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is spot on, re chatGPT cheating in college. A lot of the moral panic aspect focuses on the tool itself, as if that's the entirety of the problem. And while it isn't great, the widespread usage is definitely a symptom, not a cause, of wider rot in what the education system does to students.
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The “ceasefire” was an inauguration PR stunt.
There was never a ceasefire. For there to have been one they would have had to stop massacring Palestinians. They would've had to stop destroying Gaza.
Do not ignore the pleas of Palestinians.
Do not advert your gaze from genocide.
Do not ignore the pleas of Palestinians.
Do not advert your gaze from genocide.
March 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The “ceasefire” was an inauguration PR stunt.
When you practice such that the everyday becomes divine, sometimes you theology gets tangled enough that the showerhead looks like G-d
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
When you practice such that the everyday becomes divine, sometimes you theology gets tangled enough that the showerhead looks like G-d
Fuck toll roads, I'm determined to make it into Ohio tonight out of sheer spite!
February 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Fuck toll roads, I'm determined to make it into Ohio tonight out of sheer spite!
I'm doing some writing on disinformation right now, and the most important take away is not necessarily that we should be more critical of false information (even though we should)
It's that we should be more critical of how that information is affecting us.
It's that we should be more critical of how that information is affecting us.
January 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I'm doing some writing on disinformation right now, and the most important take away is not necessarily that we should be more critical of false information (even though we should)
It's that we should be more critical of how that information is affecting us.
It's that we should be more critical of how that information is affecting us.
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58. If you want to understand the nuances and complexities of content moderation and online free speech, talk to Palestinians, sex workers, and abortion access advocates, rather than white led “tech accountability” orgs whose position is basically “censor all the bad stuff and leave up good stuff”
January 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
58. If you want to understand the nuances and complexities of content moderation and online free speech, talk to Palestinians, sex workers, and abortion access advocates, rather than white led “tech accountability” orgs whose position is basically “censor all the bad stuff and leave up good stuff”
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Me and the other Leftist at work when management decides to be unreasonable and talk down to the other employees who don't know thier workers rights.
January 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Me and the other Leftist at work when management decides to be unreasonable and talk down to the other employees who don't know thier workers rights.
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Mister Rogers, obviously.
If they looked you square in the eye and said without a hint of humor or irony “fuck you, I will never respect you”, which celebrity would it hurt the most to hear it from?
January 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Mister Rogers, obviously.
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what would mister rogers do?
get enraged
seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:
get enraged
seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:
May 1, 2024 at 3:19 AM
what would mister rogers do?
get enraged
seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:
get enraged
seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:
It should be illegal for car manufacturers to build them with touch screen interfaces
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
It should be illegal for car manufacturers to build them with touch screen interfaces
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Nothing is more effective as a game walkthrough than an enormous plaintext document from gameFAQS dot com.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Nothing is more effective as a game walkthrough than an enormous plaintext document from gameFAQS dot com.
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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
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Remember that if you run a portable generator, do not run it indoors. Keep it outside. The carbon monoxide will kill you.
January 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Remember that if you run a portable generator, do not run it indoors. Keep it outside. The carbon monoxide will kill you.
Last March it cost me $5,000 to find out I didn't have appendicitis 👉😎👉
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was told I needed a special appointment to check something serious wasn't wrong. how much will that cost, I ask, because if it's $40 sure, $4,000 probably not. the answer after many phone calls is there's no way to say until after
was told I needed a special appointment to check something serious wasn't wrong. how much will that cost, I ask, because if it's $40 sure, $4,000 probably not. the answer after many phone calls is there's no way to say until after
January 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Last March it cost me $5,000 to find out I didn't have appendicitis 👉😎👉