Idk personally i kind of expect the ai makers to have at least had the sense to allow their bots to process math with a calculator and not guesswork. That seems like, an absurdly low bar both for testing the thing as a user as well as a feature to think of.

You forget a few major differences between us and AI makers.

We know that these chatbots are low-quality stochastic parrots capable only of producing signal shaped noise. The AI makers believe their chatbots are omniscient godlike beings capable of solving all of humanity’s problems with enough resources.

The AI makers believe that imitating intelligence via guessing the next word is equivalent to being genuinely intelligent in a particular field. We know that a stochastic parrot is not intelligent, and is incapable of intelligence.

AI makers believe creativity is achieved through stealing terabytes upon terabytes of other people’s work and lazily mashing it together. We know creativity is based not in lazily mashing things together, but in taking existing work and using our uniquely human abilities to transform them into completely new works.

We recognise the field of Artificial Intelligence as a pseudoscience. The AI makers are full believers in that pseudoscience.

Posted this on a Discord I’m in - one of the near immediate responses was “I’m glad they made a non-invasive procedure to lobotomise people”.

Nothing more to add, I just think that’s hilarious

ZITRON DROPPED

Best case scenario here is that this is how one department of Google get money out of the other bits of Google, because the internal bean counters cannot control their fiscal sphincters when someone says “ai” to them.

That’s my hope either - every dollar spent on the technological dead-end of quantum is a dollar not spent on the planet-killing Torment Nexus of AI.

I wouldn’t be shocked about it - the general throughline of “AI rots your brain”, plus the ongoing discussion of AI in education, would give any shrewd politician an easy way to pull a Think Of The Children^tm on the AI industry, with minimal risk of getting pushback.

Found a primo response in the replies:

Hot take: Dropping a single nuclear bomb over Silicon Valley would solve most of the world’s issues

Damn, seems everything from the Y2K era’s coming back - even email viruses. Calling it right now, we’re gonna have the next ILOVEYOU within a year.

Least fascist programmer

AI is a pseudoscience that conflates a plagiarism-fueled lying machine with a thinking, living human mind. Fuck off.

In other news, reports of AI images turning everything yellow have made it to Know Your Meme.

Hot take: A lying machine that destroys your intelligence and mental health is unsafe for everyone, mentally ill or no

You want my take, this probably isn’t gonna injure Disney all that much - they’re one of the largest megacorps on the entire planet, and they’ve got damning evidence of infringement against Midjourney.

How much damage Midjourney’s gonna take (at least in the immediate term), I’m not sure. If they settle ASAP, they can probably limit the damage, but if they try and fight, they’ll probably be bankrupted by the case.

I expect they think they can get a precedent here.

That’s true - the case is pretty clear-cut thanks to how much damning evidence they’ve managed to pull out. The old trend of using AI to make offensive shit in the Pixar style likely helped as well, but that’s speculation on my end.

Midjourney is also odd in that it didn’t take money from outside investors and it’s actually profitable selling monthly subscriptions. This is an AI company that is not a venture capital money bonfire, it’s an actual business.

I suspect Disney isn’t out to just shut Midjourney down. Disney’s goal is to gouge Midjourney for a settlement and a license.

In practice, I doubt Disney’s gonna get to shake much out of Midjourney before they end up going under - given that gen-AI is built to facilitate plagiarism and copyright infringement, a win for Disney here would lead to a de facto ban on generative AI.

Eric “Slophand” Slopton: He’s like Eric Clapton, but somehow more racist

Got a hilarious story for today: ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

New Blood in the Machine: The weaponization of Waymo, about protesters torching Waymos in a repeat of last year’s Waymo Warm-Overs.

Rare TERF Island W

…okay in retrospect “AI is gambling” does explain a lot about why people are going completely fucking bonkers for autoplag

Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.

This is completely unrelated, but I once saw a dude snort a line of cocaine straight off a Nintendo Switch. Its kinda funny to think about.

New piece which caught my attention: Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?