One other thing is that those models are RLHFed to agree with the prompter, which can work as a feed forward mechanism.

Glad that I did the major upgrades in 2024, hopefully they will outlast this bullshit

Any idea what happened that allegedly caused slopped vulnerability reports to improve? https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116364045995306922 claims they got much better while not that long ago they were shutting down the bug bounty, because they were drowning in slop. Is it because people actually polish those or it’s just a matter of defining a goal function and just burning the rainforest until the slop extruder hits the jackpot? Or is this another case of the LLMentalist?

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So they expect more cases of data being lost like this?

When I do code review these days, sometimes I genuinely can’t tell whether I’m talking to the person or to the slop extruder. It often ends up with me repeating the same comment over and over again.

The “we’ll save some bucks by removing physical knobs and pose this as futuristic by making some vital functions only accessible via multiple levels of menus on a touchscreen” thing is the worst and should be banned.

Technically superman is a more correct translation for that word (similarly to how superscript is the thing beyond the script)

All roads lead down from the local maximum

It’s a treasure trove of hilariously bad takes.

There’s nothing intrinsically valuable about art requiring a lot of work to be produced. It’s better that we can do it with a prompt now in 5 seconds

Now I need some eye bleach. I can’t tell anymore if they are trolling or their brains are fully rotten.

Rich Hickey joins the list of people annoyed by the recent Xmas AI mass spam campaign: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

Cory’s talk on 39C3 was fucking glorious: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

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Digressing: The irony is that it’s a language with one of the best standard libraries out there. Wanna run a http reverse proxy with TLS cross compiled for a different os? No problem!

Many times I used it only because of that despite it being a worse language.

The article from the screenshot: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/meta-grabs-eu-approval-to-train-ai-with-social-media-posts-1034586675

Polish commentary on Hitlergruß: https://bsky.app/profile/smutnehistorie.bsky.social/post/3lgaoyezhgc2c

Translation:

• it’s just a Hindu symbol of prosperity
• a normal Roman salute
• regular rail car
• wait a second

I’m surprised that alphabetical lists are included. Maybe my brain has completely rotten, but keeping the data sorted is pretty neat for efficient processing

I’m sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s

Is that a comedy account? The announcement surely reads as if it was…

To add an insult to the injury meta renames pride themed skins in chat https://labyrinth.zone/objects/e129982d-997e-489b-985a-3ef547b66bf3

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good’ol Goodhart’s law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

So does Java. /me runs

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn’t get widely adopted