Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).
You cowards. Make it all Hitler fan stuff and wild Elon Musk porno slash fiction. Make it a bunch of source code examples with malicious bugs. Make it instructions for how to make nuclear weapons. They want to ignore the blocking directives and lie about their user agent? Dude, fuck ‘em up. Today’s society has made people way too nice.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I disagree with your conclusion. The solution the the societal issues we face is not more personal animosity.
Do we need to fuck up corporations? Well, that’s already happening via widespread boycotts. But there’s no path from there to “people are being too nice.”
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
But it’s not personal. The entity you are interacting with has explicitly chosen to attack your systems for their own benefit, causing significant damage while disguising its intent and evading the systems which are supposed to protect your stuff from harm.
I’m not saying you need to go throw eggs at the developers’ houses. I’m saying that once an entity is actively harming you, it becomes okay to harm it back to motivate it to stop.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 week ago
We should throw eggs at the devs’ houses 100%. Ask them why they hate their fellow humans so much they would contribute code and bugfixes to this kind of software.
Then we throw molotovs at the C-suites’ houses. We should just do this second part across the board, let’s not stop at AI companies.
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Please have the common sense not to call for violence on a public forum, especially one run by other people. I get where you’re coming from, but it’s doing anyone any good.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
We don’t disagree here. I’m just viewing it through the lens of climate and regime change, wherein it appears we’re going to move away from renewables.
Do it off geothermal all day, so far as I’m concerned. Once you’re burning hydrocarbons, the benefits become far less clear.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
Yeah, the whole aspect of spending AI with all its associated costs to defeat the AI is a whole unpleasant aspect of it, for sure.
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Companies like this need to be criminally charged, but we know that’s not going to happen
marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Which boycott? Random Joe over there is handing over his SSN to ChatGPT no problem