leftzero @ leftzero @lemmynsfw.com

Posts

0

Comments

913

Joined

2 yr. ago

He didn't shoot Reagan for any of the billions of reasons Reagan deserved to be shot for, though... he did it as an attempt to impress Jodie Foster after developing an obsession with her after watching Taxi Driver about fifteen times.

It's important to note that Foster had been twelve when shooting the film, and that even the deranged and mentally ill protagonist of said film abandons any sexual interest on her character the instant he becomes aware of her age, despite her being a child prostitute, and that the character said protagonist was trying to impress by shooting a politician was in her twenties (Foster was barely eighteen when Hinckley shot Reagan).

No, I'm not db0, but thanks for the compliment. 😅

I'm way too lazy (and broke) to set up and admin a Lemmy instance.

We're talking about LLMs. They're useless for most practical applications by definition.

And when they're not entirely useless (basically, autocomplete) they're orders of magnitude less cost-effective than older almost equivalent alternatives, so they're effectively useless at that, too.

They're fancy extremely costly toys without any practical use, that thanks to the short-sighted greed of the scammers selling them will soon become even more useless due to model collapse.

So, a bunch of dildos and buttplugs. Even a ribbed one!

If they still profit from it, no.

Open models made by nonprofit organisations, listing their sources, not including anything from anyone who requests it not to be included (with robots.txt, for instance), and burdened with a GPL-like viral license that prevents the models and their results from being used for profit... that'd probably be fine.

If you do crime big enough, it becomes good.

No, no it doesn't.

It might become legal, or tolerated, or the laws might become unenforceable.

But that doesn't make it good, on the contrary, it makes it even worse.

OS vendors aren't selling¹ what users copy into the clipboard.

¹ Well, Microsoft probably is, especially with that recall bullshit, and I don't trust Google and Apple not to do it either... but if any of them is doing it they should get fined into bankruptcy.

And if I'm not mistaken he did so after he'd been notified the kid was being investigated for death threats.

(I mean, I'm all for people who don't secure their guns being charged for what their kids do with them, but this particular case goes far beyond mere negligence.)

LLMs have legitimate uses today

No they don't. The only thing they can be somewhat reliable for is autocomplete, and the slight improvement in quality doesn't compensate the massive increase in costs.

In the future they will have more legitimate and illegitimate uses

No. Thanks to LLM peddlers being excessively greedy and saturating the internet with LLM generated garbage newly trained models will be poisoned and only get worse with every iteration.

The capabilities of current LLMs are often oversold

LLMs have only one capability: to produce the most statistically likely token after a given chain of tokens, according to their model.

Future LLMs will still only have this capability, but since their models will have been trained on LLM generated garbage their results will quickly diverge from anything even remotely intelligible.

It's an LLM. Odds are it's hallucinating the sources and they don't even exist.

Know what does compile sources for you which are guaranteed to exist and be related to what you're looking for..? A good old not LLM infected search engine.

If my plumber replaces their wrench for a rabid gerbil claiming it'll be just as good I'm definitely changing plumbers.

The good thing about that is that this kills the LLMs, since new models can only be trained on this LLM generated gibberish, which makes the gibberish they'll generate even more garbled and useless, and so on, until every model you try to train can only produce random useless unintelligible garbage.

This must depend on the person.

Dreaming is dreaming and being awake is being awake.

Completely different experiences for me, can't imagine how someone could confuse them, though people obviously do, so they must be experiencing it differently.

DO YOU LOOK DIFFERENT?

Depends on how many hours I've been in bed. 🤷‍♂️

The problem is that people selling LLMs keep calling them AI, and people keep buying their bullshit.

AI isn't necessarily bad. LLMs are.

GNU Sir pTerry.

F

U

G

A

Pro-pain and pro-pain accessories.

Generative AI is not going back into the bag.

It probably will, though, once model collapse sets in.

That's the irony, really... the more successful it is, the sooner it'll poison itself to death.

Cherenkov Blue.

Because it's metal as fuck, that's why. Electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom.

Also, it's pretty:

To children?!

Well, the USA is the only United Nations member who hasn't ratified the UN convention on rights of the child (since it would prevent children from being executed or imprisoned for life and give them guaranteed access to safe medical care, standing in court, the right to divorce their rapist spouses, protections from physical and sexual abuse, and so on, all of which go against the country's core principle of maximising suffering), so no surprise there, really.

As always, the suffering is the point.