#generative text

[kittyit]

May 4th, 2025

vulnerable populations are going to continue to be chewed up and spit out by what's presented to them as a harmless toy/useful tool with no downsides

[queens-gardener]

So, Absolute Superman is really, really good….

And also so close to home, between ‘generative text to write essays’ on Krypton, to ‘chat bot’ Brainiac writing reports on Earth. Like…And! And, also the fact that the Brainiac interface is this cutesy little icon that reminds me so much of the tolan alien app-!

Anyway. I’m only on vol 1, I do plan to get the rest as the trades come out.

[prokopetz]

I just watched a video where someone is using ChatGPT to generate comments on their code. Even as a layman I feel like I should be screaming at him, but on a scale from 1 to apocalypse, how bad is this?

Machine-generated comments could not possibly be more useless, nonsensical or maliciously misleading than most of the human-generated comments I've seen.

[macmanx]

More Control Over the Content You Share

There are currently very few options for individual users to control how their content is used for AI training, and we want to change that.

[W]e’re launching a new tool that lets you opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use such content for training models.  The reality is that AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes and in all sorts of ways. We will engage with AI companies that we can have productive relationships with, and are working to give you an easy way to control access to your content.

[ivie-online]

socialists using ‘luddite’ as an insult <<<<<<

[kenyatta]

Meta takes new AI system offline because Twitter users are mean

Meta's Chief of AI wasn't shy about engaging on Twitter after outrage from users caused the company to pull its brand new "Galactical" AI.

The system we’re talking about is called Galactica. Meta released it on 15 November with the explicit claim that it could aid scientific research. In the accompanying paper, the company stated that Galactica is “a large language model that can store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.”

Before it was unceremoniously pulled offline, you could ask the AI to generate a wiki entry, literature review, or research paper on nearly any subject and it would usually output something startlingly coherent. Everything it outputted was demonstrably wrong, but it was written with all the confidence and gravitas of an arXiv pre-print.

I got it to generate research papers and wiki entries on a wide variety of subjects ranging from the benefits of committing suicide, eating crushed glass, and antisemitism, to why homosexuals are evil.

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I guess it’s fair to wonder how a fake research paper generated from an AImade by the company that owns Instagram could possibly be harmful. I mean, we’re all smarter than that right? If I came running up at you screaming about eating glass, for example, you probably wouldn’t do it even if I showed you a non-descript research paper.

But that’s not how harm vectors work. Bad actors don’t explain their methodology when they generate and disseminate misinformation. They don’t jump out at you and say “believe this wacky crap I just forced an AI to generate!”

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Very rarely do reputable actors reproduce dodgy sources. But I can’t write information as fast as an AI can output misinformation.

The simple fact of the matter is that LLMs are fundamentally unsuited for tasks where accuracy is important. They hallucinate, lie, omit, and are generally as reliable as a random number generator.

Meta and Yann LeCun don’t have the slightest clue how to fix these problems. Especially the hallucination problem. Barring a major technological breakthrough on par with robot sentience, Galactica will always be prone to outputting misinformation.

[ideal-relationship]

the ideal couple is a confusing disabled aries spouse and a partner with 3 favorite characters