Finally got back to posting, this time looking at a surprising(?) fact about AIs: it's harder to make them not racist than to make them *seem* not racist.

The human feedback training we do with AIs teaches them to hide their biases, not fix them!

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NEW: I wrote about a problem that's plaguing the artificial intelligence field: AI research is clearly being peer-reviewed by AI chatbots, no one really knows what to do about it ...

... and unfortunately, AI scientists have only themselves to blame. www.chronicle.com/article/ai-s...

I got confused enough about what does or doesn't (and should or shouldn't) count as "artificial intelligence" that I had to write about it.

What's the difference between an "algorithm" and an "AI"? Honestly, it's more a matter of taste than we might like to think.

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A frustrating part of all these LLMs, etc., is that companies are rewarded for creating untested, unregulated applications & models. If one succeeds, it's affordable to retroactively make it legal. And the negative consequences of the failed apps fall onto the users, not the companies.

This is 100% of the mentality that has to be eradicated. This is utterly unacceptable.

Speaking of bots on social media, I found out that the AI hashtag on Bluesky is populated approximately entirely with AI-generated scantily-clad buxom anime babes. Is there something instead of hashtags that people use on here?

I found about a social media app that's entirely populated by bots, intentionally.

I'm excited for the first post in our series on Terrible AI-deas, looking at "Aspect", the social media hellscape that uses #LLM to create #AI friends just for you

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The poem "Antigonish", which was supposedly written in 1899, but may have been time tunneled into the past after looking at the AI/LLM-powered replies to any social media post today:

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away!

I'm fascinated by the Möbius-strip logic that some AI text sites come up with. Like, here's one from an AI detector, explaining why you should run an AI detector on your homework before turning it in:

There are a lot of good reasons to avoid any program that purports to distinguish AI-generated text from human-generated text. This one, which I think comes from an AI-generated article, is maybe the worst:

I think these are good signs, but the worst parts of generative AI isn't going to go away because the big companies stop investing. Like coal mine runoff, we're going to be stuck with low-quality, low-effort AI text and images polluting our lives for a long time.

A new blogpost at Hallucinating Parrots:
"Wrong but plausible" is the worst kind of wrong for #AI
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Companies won't regulate themselves. There's no incentive to act altruistically if you don't think your competitors will follow suit. If we want #AI technologies to adhere to the public good, we have to be willing to impose regulations.
(h/t @bcmerchant.bsky.social)
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I wonder how much of the hype in the AI bubble consists of people saying something bad as if it is good?

One of the biggest problems with LLMs is that they lie confidently. "Wrong but plausible" is the WORST thing a text can be! And yet here it's sold as a nearly-optimal situation?

On the one hand, I can imagine that there's a benefit to submitting prompt drafts that don't work until you get the one that does. But that's also going to craft what you're saying as if the computer is the audience, instead of the actual target of a human audience.