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[silvertongues-mp3]

[headspace-hotel]

one of myfavorite things I did with InferKit (a large language model based text generation service that came before ChatGPT) was when I was feeding it Crywolf's song titles and then feeding it its own selected outputs until it was giving me phrases from the nightmare dimension

chatGPT was totally uninteresting to me because it has this dumb framing device where it uses "I" pronouns and frames its outputs like a person's speech. With InferKit, you would just type in whatever input, and it would spit out text that the model decided was the most likely to occur after that.

So if you formatted something like a list, the model would continue to produce a list of things.

I think the training data associated my inputs closely with lists of songs from black metal bands and similar, but also with transcripts of video or audio.

worth noting that when I did this I had "temperature" slider turned up usually to 1.1 - 1.2 (at 1.3 and above, the model's ability to spell words significantly deteriorated)

"temperature" slider controlled the "randomness" of what the model decided was the next chunk of letters in the output, essentially.

every so often I have to existentially scream in my head about the sheer lack of understanding of what LLMs are and do

[ralfmaximus]

I sincerely think if AI agents were forced to stop responding as friendly helpful friends then AI psychosis would stop. Overnight. Make it illegal for chatbots to use personal pronouns or roleplay as characters.

They'd still be dangerous & wasteful, but at least people would stop killing themselves because their AI girlfriend told them to.

[underwaterfraulein]

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia

Just gonna leave this here because it has been a thing for LITERALLY MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS

[ralfmaximus]

In the 1980s I worked in a computer store, and I loaded a copy of Eliza on a demo computer. We'd leave it running all day to entice customers.

People had very strong feelings about Eliza.

I'd watch people engage with it for hours sometimes. One guy swore it was a living, thinking being and I had to stop the program and scroll through the BASIC code to show him how it worked. I'm not sure he was entirely convinced.

Eliza actually got me a few sales. Yes, customers bought expensive home computers just to run Eliza.

[iamthespineofmybook]

When I was growing up in the 90s, we had on both one of my dad's computers (he had a graphic design business in the basement) and my gramma's computer "Eliza" and "Azile*." And I played with them. I knew they were programs, not people, and I was in the single digits of age.

My favourite things to do were to essentially have them "talk" to each other by copy-pasting their responses between them, and to be as nonsensical as possible until the program just gave up and stopped responding. Though, the easiest way to do that was actually to just repeat exactly what the program output.

*I actually don't hear people talk about Azile much, but it was basically "what if Eliza was vulgar and mean?"

[datsderbunnyblog]

I also love how a 15 year old won't be able to access social media but that same 15 year old's parents will still be able to blast their whole life all over the internet. There's still nothing to safeguard children against exploitative parents who run family vlogging channels and/or post #relatable parenting content which often includes the child's full name, age, school, medical information and photos/videos of the child.

[datsderbunnyblog]

Honestly even my own posts on this subject are pissing me off purely because of how asinine this situation is

[eternalgaylord]

collecting tweets

[eternalgaylord]

#vessel alert

that's right

[fantashic]

Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"

Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"

[unamccormack]

And sometimes, with DS9, the A plot is about the hot sauce and the B plot is about the moral complexities, and I love it either way round.

[unamccormack]

Yes, this is quite literally “In the Cards”!

I had to go and LOOK UP what those “more serious political machinations” were because I couldn’t remember, and it’s only negotiating Bajor’s non-aggression pact with the Dominion. So, you know, nothing major compared to Jake really loving his dad. Chef’s kiss; perfection.

[unamccormack]

[unamccormack]

Place your bets now

[lakevida]

indescribable the feeling of writing a post while weekend daydrunk in the seconds before leaving to have sex and you come back to find your phone afterwards and the post you wrote was both normal and well recieved

[elordick]

let's go jealous drunk boyfriend 👀

[senatortedcruz]

I hate Elon musk so fucking much

[senatortedcruz]

Exactly!!!!!

[maryfitzroy]

as joyce carol oates once said, “the poorest persons on twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[rosebramblewolf]

"all trillionaires and millionaires" you guys do not understand what "ultra wealthy" means. you are talking about anyone in california who owns a house that is not actively falling down

[rosebramblewolf]

some of you literally think all numbers with "illion" in them are a) the same and b) functionally infinite. playground ass understanding of mathematics

[simplydm]

His grisping was… sexual in nature… I had no idea until tumblr told me

[oodlyenough]

i do love when some insane doctor who thing happens and briefly my dash is full of dw posts from those of us who rarely post dw. periodic family reunion. or family funeral

[notrightnowsblog]

The factoid that the average Taskmaster contestant only understood 15% of the tasks is inaccurate. Series 21 winner, Joanna Page, who only understood 3% of the tasks is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[pitbolshevik]

i still think about the fucking quesadilla terf

[pitbolshevik]

iirc it was like this terf who was absolutely fuming because her brother was dating a trans woman and she started claiming that she was clearly male socialized because the terf made quesadillas for dinner and the trans woman was like "wow :) this is really good, what is it?" and if she was a REAL woman she would instinctively KNOW what a quesadilla is

anyway it turns out the reason the poor woman didn't know what it was was because the terf had used hummus instead of cheese for some fucking reason so it wasn't even a quesadilla

[mysharona1987]

[setulose]

Trace amounts of Monica in my life

[setulose]

A statistically insignificant level of Monica in my life

[setulose]

My life manufactured in a facility that also processes Monica