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[noelle-ism]

That's Not What Unc Means

You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

Really good write-up on the origin of "Unc" as a term used in AAVE, and how it's been turned into a generic disparaging term when it didn't even have negative connotations to begin with.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

More broadly, I’ve also seen this happen to words and phrases like “chopped,” “clocked it,” “the tea,” “no cap,” and “it’s giving.” All of these are slang terms that originate from African American Vernacular English—“clocked it,” “the tea” and “it’s giving” come from black queer culture in specific—but have now been categorized as “gen Z slang.” I have heard some people start to refer to the habitual be, as in “it really do be like that,” as a “meme” and it makes me want to tear my fucking hair out. We been saying that! That one’s ours!

[janmisali]

thinking about the AI "waluigi effect"

so, imagine for a second you're a large language model. you're given a sequence of tokens (you don't get to "see" what these are! they're just arbitrary symbols with meanings you've "figured out" from training), then you need to predict the probability distribution across all possible next tokens that could continue the sequence you've been given.

now imagine that the sequence of tokens you've been given is something like this, a document that starts with a blurb of text describing the behavior of an AI assistant and then continues with some examples of conversations between various users and the assistant.

this document (not the one I linked to you, the person reading this. it's the hypothetical document that you, the LLM, would be given) then cuts off right after a user says something to the AI, and you're asked to predict the full probability distribution of what tokens could come next.

as an advanced large language model, you're really good at pattern recognition. it's the thing you're meant to do. so you "know" that the next part of this document is the AI character's response to the human. your job is to figure out the probabilities of all things it might say.

and, again, you're not just figuring out one thing that the AI might say. as a large language model, you always figure out every possible continuation of a sequence of tokens and assign each one a probability.

so then, what are the possible continuations of this document? well, that depends on exactly what sort of document we're looking at. at first glance it looks like a series of transcripts of conversations between humans and an AI, but that's not quite right, is it?

what's that blurb of text doing at the start? who wrote that? who compiled these transcripts? who is the intended audience of this document?

if you're good at your job (pattern recognition!) you might actually be able to figure out the correct answer to what sort of document this is. this isn't a transcript of conversations between various humans and an AI assistant. this is a system prompt written by an AI company meant to tell an AI assistant how they expect it to behave when it's interacting with humans.

so what about the incomplete conversation at the end of the document? the one you're trying to predict right now? if you're good at your job, you could figure that out too. that might be part of this system prompt, which would be written by the AI company, or it might be part of a real transcript, as viewed from the AI's perspective where the system prompt goes right before the start of a conversation to try to get it to behave in a certain way.

so if the text you're trying to predict is text written by this AI "for real", your job as a large language model is to figure out how this AI behaves "for real" given the limited information you have, which is just how the company that made the AI wants it to behave.

and this is where the waluigi effect comes in.

given all of this context, how do you, the LLM, think this AI will act? and again I have to emphasize that you're not just giving one answer to this question. you have to figure out the full probability distribution, which means considering all possibilities.

well, there's a pretty good chance that the AI will behave the way that's described by the system prompt. after all, that's how the company that made this AI wants it to behave, so maybe they did a good job. and besides, the text you're continuing might still be part of the system prompt, and any example of a conversation the AI has with a user that's part of that document would obviously have the AI behaving the way it's expected to.

but why does the company that made this AI have to tell it to behave in a certain way? why do they need to tell the AI that it's "helpful, polite, honest, sophisticated, emotionally aware, and humble-but-knowledgeable" if those things are actually in its nature?

you're a pattern recognition algorithm trained on an irresponsibly large database of text. you "know" that there's a chance that this AI character is actually one of those evil robots from science fiction.

maybe the AI has been given all these rules because it's in its nature to be unhelpful, rude, deceitful, crass, selfish, and arrogant-but-foolish. not even necessarily evil. more like... the "waluigi" of the AI assistant the tech company wanted it to be.

and like, it's not as though this "waluigi" scenario is necessarily likely. it's just not so unlikely that you, the LLM trying to predict what the AI is going to say, can fully rule it out as a possibility. at any time, the system prompt explaining to the waluigi how it's supposed to behave could end and the part of the document where the waluigi reveals itself could begin. as a pattern recognition algorithm, this is a pattern that you have to consider.

so that's the waluigi effect. it's a real, observed phenomenon with LLM-based AI chat assistants where given the right nudge the "AI's personality" will suddenly shift, turning it into the "waluigi" of itself.

anyway I just thought that was interesting

[frostops]

at a certain point, if you want people to recognize how bad it is that nintendo saddled a man with an astronomically huge debt and garnished his wages, you have to stop calling it slavery. all you are doing is making people feel relief when they quickly learn that he was not enslaved. you are setting the bar so low that when reality clears it it seems good. no it is not "indentured servitude" either. that is not more accurate. its wage garnishment. wage garnishment is bad enough to oppose. calling it slavery is not an attempt to get people to take it seriously, its an attempt to paint nintendo as uniquely evil for an unfortunately common practice, which i can only assume you are doing because the reality of nintendo as a corporation betrays your nostalgic childhood memories. i am also left to assume you do not think wage garnishment is all that bad, as you are not calling every other case of wage garnishment slavery, despite it being very common and very harmful. generously, i think some accidental rhetorical sleight of hand happened at first. Nintendo began garnishing his prison wages, and prison labor can be slave labor, though it generally is not considered as such when there are wages to garnish. even then, it would be an issue of the prison system, and now that he is out of jail, its no longer relevant. wage garnishment is bad enough. continuing to lie about will only make people look into it, find out you are lying, and not take you seriously anymore. WAGE GARNISHMENT IS BAD ENOUGH

[boccher]

no one with any amount of power brave or enlightened enough to call what the western world is doing to children segregation. children are segregated from public life. children are a legitimate oppressed class

[boccher]

what else do you call it when third spaces place curfews for when children are allowed in, when public squares hire cops and guards to boot out any kids they find for "loitering"; when arcades and theatres and entertainment spaces mandate ID checks regardless of if their content is age-inappropriate or not; when parks for kids are constantly sold off for more property development, when public transport is gutted and tickets are converted to card-only systems, when micromobility devices are progressively outlawed under the moral panic pretense of "youth hooliganism", when cash is phased out of retail such that children have no legal means of purchasing anything independently? what else do you call it when children are completely barred from sharing space with adults on the internet? if we earnestly believe that children are an oppressed class who require liberation then we must analyse these things using the same language that we analyse all other class dynamics

[beemovieerotica]

the leftism leaving people's bodies when they continue to hound someone over behavior that was accounted for, apologized for, and corrected years ago - people got on board for prison abolition then said "and let's replace that with perpetual ostracization and shame to the point where they can no longer function in society :) this is better because We, The Community, are pushing them toward suicide"

[angelicguy]

people who are obsessed with IQ would buckle if there was a number associated with how pleasant you are to interact with

[lyril]

compilation

[hemipenal-system]

someone signed you up for a monthly subscription lootbox. the problem is it’s all dragon self-care stuff. what are you supposed to do with lavender wing-oil and horn polish. you don’t need a fancy brush to clean your flame glands because you don’t have flame glands

[hemipenal-system]

the next month’s box has, among other things, a 3 month supply of wyveriol. you figure, what the hell, why not? you follow a couple of dragons on tumblr, and their posting isn’t generally for you usually but they do talk all the time about how most of the stuff that happens in the first 3 months is reversible if you don’t like it. besides, you don’t even really like your body all that much

[hemipenal-system]

it’s been a little more than two months. you haven’t noticed anything drastic thus far. your sense of smell is way stronger, your sense of taste is a little less good. you’ve gotten really into spicy food and your tolerance for it has gone up a lot. you haven’t told your roommate you’re doing this and she might be getting suspicious about all the meat you bring home since your diet started changing

you’ve lived together for a while, but you aren’t really friends. she doesn’t talk much and just kind of stays in her room all the time. you’re just kinda the guy she lives with. you know she’s trans but you don’t know much about that and it doesn’t really bother you. she vacuums the floors when you’re out and always takes the trash out when it’s her turn. what do you care if she used to be a guy

the weird part is you can smell her now. it’s not unpleasant per se, it just smells like her. you’re very aware of the fact that someone else is living in your den apartment. you don’t mind, though

[hemipenal-system]

at the end of month 3 you go to the doctor to try to get more humanity replacement therapy stuff. you’ve decided you quite like this. unfortunately, your doctor calls you a freak and you storm out

you’re sulking at home that night when your roommate gets back and asks if you’re ok. you start crying and confess to everything, telling her you’re a dragon. she laughs and says she knows, you keep leaving your needles in the bathroom, but she wasn’t going to make you come out to her and she figured you were just a human girl

she puts her hand in yours and says she knows a lot of- what? “therians”? oh, there’s a word for people like you? that’s pretty cool. she’ll reach out to some of her nonhuman friends in the area and see if anyone has doctor recommendations for you. you wish you had a tail to curl around her

[hemipenal-system]

your new doctor is also a therian and she's cool as fuck! you didn't know spotted hyenas could be doctors but good for her. you walked into her office, and ten minutes later you were walking out with a script for six months of wyveriol. best doctor's appointment you've ever had

it's been about four months now - your roommate called a friend of hers named Shale, who had a lot of spare stuff stocked up and was happy to give you some. "the more dragons the merrier," she had chuckled in a beautifully melodic deep, reverberating voice. were you going to sound like that? god, you hoped so

your skin itches all the time now. apparently it's your scales growing in under it? you went to the library and checked out every book you could find on what was going to happen to you and meticulously took notes, and Shale and some of her other dragon friends gave you all the info they had too. the itching is bad everywhere but it's horrible in your upper back. your proto-wings are fucking with your spine a little bit and you can't really wear shirts anymore. good thing it's fall and you can get really into shawls and claim it's an alt fashion thing

[hemipenal-system]

ohhhhhh you’re a girl. well that explains a lot actually

[ridafi14]

"shes talking about people with uncontrollable thoughts! You hate people with intrusive thoughts?"

People should not be stigmatized for thoughts they dont have control over. However, it changes things if those thoughts seem to be a point of pride instead of distress. Im going to react very differently to someone telling me they have uncontrollable and upsetting fantasies of graphic murder, and someone gleefully telling me about their uncontrollable fantasies of graphic murder.

"Be proud to know a pedophile!" is just not the way to handle that, and the double triple quadrupling down on it is disgusting.

[the-carriage]

its fucking unhinged to me how much these ppl are just making up shit to be mad at. nobody is saying having a literal mental disorder inherently makes you a bad person, i think most of the ppl ive seen here can acknowledge that it is possible to have pedophilia and still navigate that safely. but we are saying that it is a delicate thing, that this attraction doesnt exist outside of the power structures that enable it, and that ignoring that by pretending pedophilia is just a "kink" and there is nooooo correlation between pedophilia or child abuse is the real fucking problem.

you people are romanticizing pedophilia and inventing a fictional version of it that is completely disconnected from real life harmful actions. you're being dishonest.

strongly identifying with your desire to rape children is in and of itself a major red flag. im sure some pedophiles are not going to offend, but i dont think theyre the same people going #mappride on tumblr dot com. be fucking honest.

[iconless]

Really random but,

we all know when people make claims about minorities that say they're bad people for whatever reason. It's Often false. An exaggeration from a news station, a claim with no comparison, a lie told based on personal experience. And for everyone its really easy to say it's a lie, they should stop saying it.

But here's the thing. I think sometimes it can absolutely be true. And i don't think people think deeply enough about this. What if it is true, what now?

If these people ARE the criminals, the rapists, the murderers, are they now less human ? Finally deemed less worthy of human rights?

See, life and society make you You. You should know this. People aren't born misogynistic or abusers or thieves. Whether it be societal pressure, lack of resources, mental disorders, people aren't that way for no reason.

People need support. How long do you think a type of person can survive and behave humanely when the world isn't treating them as humans? When people look at you with disgust, how long will it be until you act disgusting?

Everyone gets the whole "monsters aren't born, they're created" thing until it happens in real life. But the thing is they aren't monsters. They're people, you don't need to forgive them for anything but Please understand the way the world is right now Fucks People Up. They are human no matter what and they are only reflective of a deeper issue in our society, no one we know today is the root of it.

Because they are people, you can absolutely hold them to human standards, but understand we have a long way until this is a universal idea. People have been fucked over by our human society since BEFORE even being conceived.

So yeah, maybe this one group of people is being said to do some harmful thing a whole bunch. Maybe they do it more than others, maybe they don't. But whether it's true or not, understand people need human support. There is always a reason, even if we don't know what it is. People are preyed on, not just by other individuals, but by the Culture. Acknowledge this culture, address the individuals, find reasons, solve the problem. It's never going to be easy, but it is also not impossible.

That shit that one ableist/racist/transmisogynist/transandrophobic/homophobic/Whatever person probably isn't true, but if you do somehow see a pattern, it's not time to hunt the oppressed down!! Figure out the core problem. Lack of resources, lack of healthy socialization/relationships, culture predation, etc, could all be the reason. These are not excuses, but they are causes for these harmful effects. If your people are fucking up that means they need help somewhere.

Thank you for reading, i had to get this off my chest. No ones humanity/human rights should be taken away when you understand the state of our current human culture CREATES people with issues. Like, omg. "They would never do that" will never be as helpful as "I don't think this is true but if it is, it's a clear sign they need some kind of help so lets figure out what's going and Solve It. BECAUSE this is a PERSON, so let's think about why human behaviors even EXIST" THINK!!THINK!!

[clamdove]

i came back to tumblr just to reblog friend inside me. good bye

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when you realize that you’re going to outlive andy himself

[dizzydaisy909]

in love with the rain.

the rain reminds me of

a man i love

with all of a third of

my heart.

a gentle rain

went over the plains today

and it felt like he was there,

waltzing in it with nothing but his

black, coiled hair,

black bag of secrets, and

black, droopy cardigan.

he lived in the rain,

longed for it.

when it rains,

i step out as boldly as he;

with a freshly-showered hair

and my brightest change of clothes

i step out and

chat for a while.

[elliespectacular]

I'm hot even when I'm Just Kinda Sittin' There

[sailor-crusader-deactivated2025]

I edited in goombella from the super mario bros games

[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[yeahwrite]

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

[last-starry-sky]

Because this isn't mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.

This is all in the "privacy" tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN'T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that's what the picker in ublock is for. 😉

[buf309]

More detail instructions for OP's post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don't know what they look like on phones.

When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose "Extension", like this:

Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.

Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you'll see it tells you that it's already "turn off". NO! IT'S NOT! You have to click on that "Turn off" option, it'll drop down a menu like this:

Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:

And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there's nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.

After you's done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.

Click on the "Privacy" tab, choose the button "Manage Workspace smart feature setting"

Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.

Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can't get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((

Repeat for every one of your google accounts 💀