Butterbee

@Butterbee@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just double checked, and no they are very much talking about LLM’s. Specifically they were testing gpt-4o, gemini-1.5, llama-3.1, sonnet-3.5, and opus-3 o1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04984 And the concerns raised in that paper are legit, but not indicative of consciousness or intent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s wildly difficult to control the output of the black box and that’s hardly llms showing signs of self-preservation. These cries are from people in the industry trying to pretend the models are something that they are not, and cannot ever be. I do agree with the sentiment that we should be prepared to pull the plug on them though, for other reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “This has never been about politics,”

  Coward. It absolutely was, and is, about politics. The misinformation has ALWAYS been political. Countering misinformation is inherently political. As someone who’s very existence is considered “political” I politely suggest we drop the apolitical angle and start getting fucking angry and aggressively political. I’m very glad there are organizations out there like his that are doing that work. Just be honest about it.

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brendan would never hurt a fly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this, concept art is one of the places I would least like AI to be used in. It utterly fails at being creative and actually creating something fundamentally NEW and the more we use it the more our media will just devolve into remixed homogeneity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhh I get it. So MS should make the AI use mandatory and compulsory!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can You Conduct A Census In Red Dead Redemption 2?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loved the censor bleep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can You Conduct A Census In Red Dead Redemption 2?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He knows what he’s doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already sitting with the bees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good catch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now it’s really in the cloud!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will complete TikTok deal ‘in coming days’ and control its algorithm, White House says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Department of Truth i think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mood⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feeling a little blindsided by that last one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Borderlands 3 felt like getting mugged by Randy Pitchford for 20 hours. I’m not a real fan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Decentralized app plotting a total takeover of the social internet? Are these tryouts for the mental gymnastics invitational?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m certain that’s not what that means. It only means that if Anthropic or Google wants to train an AI model THEY can steal any content they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Openings (Monster Hunter)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Azul Crescent spotted in the wild? :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest trial in Meta's history starts Monday⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this climate of post-law America… yeah. Whatever will happen will happen I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple and Musk Clash Over Satellite Expansion Plans⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want Apple to win, but I DO want Musk to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’m quite the target of this comment because I don’t pretend it doesn’t exist or that it isn’t something that people use or care about. But I do avoid using AI for anything that matters… like at all. I also refuse to use chatgpt or any of the commercial offerings. I do play around with locally hosted stuff because the tech is interesting, but there is no way I would ever put my faith in it. Also, my feelings toward the biggest players in the industry are at best “disgust”. So I don’t want to use their products.

  So my question then how exactly can I be in the room to help shape decisions? The only two levers I have to pull is whether or not to send those companies money, and whether to even use the free services or not.

  What exactly am I supposed to do? The companies will just make whatever models and tune them however they feel will achieve whatever goals they have regardless. And presently, their goals do not align with mine.

  I won’t be surprised when we are fucked. I promise you that. I can see that coming. But I feel utterly powerless to stop the tech fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The war thunder forums are going to go HARD for the next 4 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Let’s set aside the obvious conflict of interest and ethics questions at play here —” You can’t, and you shouldn’t. "We can even skip over the security implications pointed out by a cybersecurity expert in the Times piece. " You can’t, and you shouldn’t. “As a practical matter alone, there’s no obvious reason to add another ISP in order to improve Wi-Fi coverage” It doesn’t take an entire paragraph to figure out what’s going on here let alone an entire article.

  As someone from north of the USA border… PLEASE stop this man from stealing your country, Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is replacing Google Assistant with Gemini | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uranus is rising

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or go try the demo. It IS eerily uncanny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish LLM felt better to say than AI. Like AI just rolls off the tongue but LLM feels like a mouthful. That doesn’t help :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like a “WATER IS WET!” type situation with the exception that a large part of the population would end up being shocked and appalled by the idea of water being wet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google spikes its explicit 'no AI for weapons' policy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a move that shocked absolutely nobody

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.