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The two most important fundamentals of computer programming are, arguably, consistency and encapsulation.
Consistency lets you write something once and know it will work the same way indefinitely. This is a huge force multiplier and the main way computers have transformed society.
Encapsulation lets you decompose a complex system into predictable, independent pieces, allowing reuse and more complex programs.
Chat-prompt "programming" breaks both.
I've just caught up on the latest 'Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000' with @emilymbender and @alex, and special guest Naomi Klein -
- and holy hell, it's depressing as anything, but it's a must-watch.
Key take-away: the worst people in the world have control over the most lethal and destructive weapons in the world, and plan to make decisions on their use aided by the glitchiest tech in the world (and no nuclear treaties are in force).
#AI #GenAI #Military #Gaza #AIHell
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - dair_institute on Twitch
dair_institute went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Science & Technology VOD now.Twitch
AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies
AI developers are starting to talk about ‘welfare’ and ‘spirituality’, raising old questions about the inner lives of machines.The Conversation
Why are we kidding ourselves? Or am I missing some key information about how great 'AI' is in L&T at university? How is this 'the future'? What is it about smart sounding chatbots (even if they were accurate and reliable) that is so good it replaces human skill, effort and knowledge? How have bigtech AI companies fooled academics so easily?
#ai #genai #academia #academicchatter
A surge in new datacenters, each with the power demand of 100,000 households and a cooling water demand of 1,000,000 m³ per year to train AI models on material obtained without consent on hardware now unaffordable to consumers so fascism-adjacent tech billionaires can sell us the idea that any skill is now worthless and in doing so creating the largest economic bubble ever while simultaneously destroying society and environment.
I think that about sums it up.
OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents | TechCrunch
OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.Rebecca Szkutak (TechCrunch)
OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own | TechCrunch
The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.Lucas Ropek (TechCrunch)
Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models
The EnCompass system runs AI agent programs by backtracking and making several attempts, finding an LLM’s best set of outputs. It lets programmers easily experiment with different search strategies so they can work with AI agents more efficiently.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
There is no such thing as ethical AI. There's no right way to do the wrong thing, don't compromise on the pollution of the information sphere and denigration of art and culture and proliferation of consciousness-impersonating political agents
AI slop hurts your soul.
It makes you: distrustful, dismissive of creative works, uncreative, derivative, imaginatively stunted, unreflective, dependant, it robs you of the satisfaction and growth granted by the creative process and it poisons you with all the same cultural biases taken from the training data.
AI robs people of imagination and the drive to create and instead produces output that is pastiche on steroid, uninspired unchallenging slop, every little detail crafted without personality or opinion with nothing to say except "this might vaguely remind you of something good that already existed"
I am also particularly concerned about the rise of chatbots pretending to be humans for political purposes.
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#LLM #AISlop #GenAI #DeadInternet #Art
LLMs are a Cognitohazard
I've seen a bunch of generally reasonable people say some pretty weird things about LLMs and I want to talk about them.alextheward.com
Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you might want to scale back.
"The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.
In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions."
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#news #technology #TechNews #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI #GenAI #grok #grokipedia
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniersAisha Down (The Guardian)
🪤 When two years of academic work vanished with a single click // Nature
｢ I temporarily disabled the ‘data consent’ option because I wanted to see whether I would still have access to all of the model’s functions if I did not provide OpenAI with my data. At that moment, all of my chats were permanently deleted and the project folders were emptied — two years of carefully structured academic work disappeared. No warning appeared ｣
#ai #genai #science #research
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.Bucher, Marcel
This is an amazing protest:
thenation.com/article/society/…
#AI #GenAI #Art #Protest #News
Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit | The Nation
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”smccroskey (The Nation)
