Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

that's kind of an interesting wrinkle to this stuff, it doesn't know how to lie or use corporate speak. i'm sure companies will find ways to clean this up (for example I'm sure a lot of time was spent on Elon Musk's AI to ensure it can't say anything bad or truthful about him), but right now it seems like a good prompt can still fool it

frogbs longer post otm

― z_tbd, Thursday, May 23, 2024 9:48 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^ totally

it really was kind of a digital library

this is kind of why i find the whole situation depressing. i mean, it's like we had an opportunity to share all media infinitely and instead it's like a few losers who are pathologically focused on profit took a shit in the whole thing and destroyed our society in the process.

to me it just kind of reinforces the fact that most or maybe all of the internet is "fake" and "not real life" -- i do realize that's almost become like a generational shibboleth but i don't really care if somebody thinks that it's a boomer mentality

most or maybe all of the internet is "fake" and "not real life"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog

First world problems, sorry

capitalism's effect on society is a first world problem?

the other thing is all the ways the internet has 'improved' has been undone by this shit. sure you don't get pop-up ads anymore, instead ads have integrated themselves into every other part of the online experience. social media has exerted enormous effort into making ads look like real posts. there aren't computer viruses the way there used to be but now it feels like viruses just come pre-installed. I recently bought a new PC and the amount of shit it comes with that I don't want is just mind boggling. sometimes it'll even display little ads for it on boot-up, like hey why not try Candy Crush? that's the shit computer viruses used to do! its also true that you don't randomly encounter disgusting/gory/pornographic stuff as often as you used to, but again the algorithms seem geared to feed us psychologically damaging things everywhere we go, like I'd rather see goatse than load up my browser and immediately get hit with "PUTIN INSIDER SAYS NUCLEAR WAR IMMINENT!"

yes I know you can turn some of this shit off. they make it difficult to figure out how. and somehow my computer has a way of factory resetting these particular options every few weeks. very cool.

capitalism's effect on society is a first world problem?

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

The internet and algs going to shit is what's being talked about.

what's your point exactly

everyone in the world goes online pretty much or at least like 80% of them

xp we have much bigger problems

we sure do. this is what i feel like talking about though

Not stopping anyone

frogbs otm

In that the Internet is the delivery system for so much media, news, banking, personal interactions, etc. (and far from that just being the case in the first world) the ways it is continually getting worse ranks pretty high on the problem list

^^^

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In that the Internet is the delivery system for so much media, news, banking, personal interactions, etc. (and far from that just being the case in the first world) the ways it is continually getting worse ranks pretty high on the problem list

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Most of these predate AI. Call me when AI disinformation actually causes a revolution (which things like social media claimed they had a hand on).

Right now its telling me that I should eat 1x small rock a day.

I don’t know, was the World Wide Web really ever a reliable source of information? SEO vs random folks just thinking about things. But I love when I run into an old school style .edu page explaining some physics concept or something, those seem to be evergreen.

The Food Pyramid is literally a pyramid!

xp probably not but I think it was at least easier to discern who was full of it and who wasn't, as opposed to AI which gives you like 95% good info and 5% stuff compiled from an 11-year Redditor

interesting googles thing is returning actual specific stuff its absorbed kinda just rephrasing search results, lil different than the other ai stuff thats averaging everything out

So as this example shows we are circling the drain. Not sure how it follows that we are getting from hilarious search results to "every aspect of our daily lives will suck even more now". Fellas, your job is far more likely to suck than this ever will.

The danger of LLM “AI” is not its power, it’s in its shittiness that threatens to subsume the rest of the internet (and by extension most aspects of our daily lives) for SEEMINGLY NO REASON

— punished giorgio (@GMomurder) May 23, 2024

Well good news on that front, plenty of ppl will be losing their job to AI.

Right-wing pundits are going to lose jobs.

OpenAI to start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal https://t.co/2GKoWvcHmh

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 24, 2024

We won't be able to use the Internet to fact check inside three years but AI is cool. It's fun to say, at least.

so that one is saying its last updated dataset was in 2021, have any of these been updated since stuff like ChatGPT went mainstream? because if it's pulling stuff from 11 year old Redditors it sure as hell would pull in a ton of AI-generated data if it were to be updated today, meaning this stuff is more likely to get worse not better

https://i.imgur.com/i3zV1NC.jpeg

that's another Onion pull

A relevant LinkedIn post I saw earlier today https://t.co/8INVFAOWT5 pic.twitter.com/dQXnlzqucL

— Ryan Bloom (@BlazeHedgehog) May 24, 2024

i guess everybody on Facebook for the message about now being raw material for their ai. you can opt out but they want an essay with reasons why and even then might ignore you anyway

for / saw

ffs, they should improve autocorrect first

facebook obvs will do whatever they want as they always have, your data is their data

i just hope instagram doesn't take a peek at all of this

https://thebaseballlifestyle.com/why-does-the-baseball-player-wear-pearls/

Pearls are a timeless accessory and have been worn by baseball players for many years. They are seen as a symbol of good luck, team spirit, and fashion. They can also help the player feel more confident and give them a sense of power and strength.

In regard to Scott Jensen's reference to a 'blind panic' among the high tech giants, it's worthwhile to remember that what is causing that panic is the specter of their stock options losing some fraction of their value, so they become marginally less obscenely wealthy.

i will pray for them

I go to Instagram and it prompts me to “ask meta AI anything”. What the FUCK would I want an AI to help me with on Instagram? What iota of value could we squeeze out of this thoroughly unnecessary and unasked-for “enhancement”?

Also, if I ever click on a post about, let’s say lettuce, for even a second, all I get in my feed forever is lettuce videos. Do you think I’m going to voluntarily sign up for the rest of my online life for whatever bullshit my mind serves up in the moment when I decide to “ask Meta AI” something?

Ask Meta, "would you please shrivel up and go away forever?"

Great, now my feed is guys walking into cold water, what the hell

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/05/microsoft-ai-recall-feature-records-everything-secures-far-less

very funny to see microsofts ceo pitching that all "it records every single thing you do and remembers it forever" tech guys are something else

we've had that for a while it's called spyware

pretty sure that microsoft recall feature is copying this startup https://www.rewind.ai/

which used to be a startup about simply recording everything that has ever happened on your computer - but now has pivoted towards record + AI

hell yeah brother

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All new fashion idea: what if we made baseball hats that you don't wear when playing baseball?!

what about a tactical baseball hat with space for my bullets and usb drives

a baseball cap that doesnt fly off your head when youre playing baseball