the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise.

/fin

I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?

the virgin common sense rationalist: erm, everyone knows that the universe is a cold and uncaring structure of blind chaos

the chad aperture of the universe witnessing itself: wow, i live here? splendid

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.

It's-a-me !

When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.

George Lakoff, 2004

If this is how it's gonna be

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Phillip K Dick bang on the money all those years ago...

the foundational myth of the tech industry is that smart people can't be evil

Apropos of nothing, Gojira finally uploaded their Grammy nominated Olympics performance youtu.be/5hTMYk7orHw?...

me: hey medieval peasant. i'm from the future
peasant: oh art thou here to try to kille me with doritos
me: no i just wanted to say you were right all along about hot buttered bread. it fuckin rocks
peasant: it DOTH rock
me: it DOTH
peasant: tis the GOATE

We Have Questions/The Thritch (triple witch)

There’s that meme about how if you read far enough into every “self-made millionaire in their 20s” article you’ll get to the part where they have rich parents. Similarly, any time there’s a piece on the reason why some aspect of modern American life sucks, you’ll always find…

me watching Rebel Ridge when the villains are doing the ubiquitous "let's read the hero's file aloud" scene, and one of the characters is like, "what's MCMAP?"

I'm totally OK with being called woke. It just means that I'm showing off my green flags. Happy to follow others with green flags.

#woke