

Itās wild for the CEO of an edutainment company to have this much disdain for for teachers.
I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence⦠Sailor Saturn.
Itās wild for the CEO of an edutainment company to have this much disdain for for teachers.
canāt have AI bro coworkers if youāre unemployed :P
Iād certainly feel less conflicted yelling about AI if I didnāt work for a big tech company thatās gaga for AI. I almost wrote out a long angsty reply but I donāt want to give up too much personal details in a single comment.
I guess I ended up as a boiled frog. If I knew how much AI nonsense Iād be incidentally exposed to over the last year I would have quit a year ago. And yet currently I donāt quit for complicated reasons. Iām not that far from the breaking point, but Iām going to try to hang in for a few more years.
But yeah, Iām pretty uncomfortable working for a company that has also veered closer to allying with techo-fascism in recent years; and I am taking psychic damage.
Urgh over the past month I have seen more and more people on social media using chat-gpt to write stuff for them, or to check facts, and getting defensive instead of embarrassed about it.
Maybe this is a bit old woman yells at cloud ā but Iād lie if I said I wasnāt worried about language proficiency atrophying in the population (and leading to me having to read slop all the time)
Weāve had one AI legal filing yes, but what about second AI legal filing?
https://bsky.app/profile/debgoldendc.bsky.social/post/3lpjr7i6lrs2n
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.alnd.179677/gov.uscourts.alnd.179677.186.0.pdf
Instead, Defendant appears to have wholly invented case citations in his Motion for Leave, possibly through the use of generative artificial intelligence
Defendant bolstered this assertion with a lengthy string citation of legal authority and parentheticals that appeared to support Defendantās proposition. But the entire string citation appears to have been made up out of whole cloth.
Not deleted. Itās just that the reddit programmers either DGAF or donāt know what theyāre doing.
But yeah this one confused me. He appears to be a movie director / producer / writer and has a couple festival films under his belt. Nothing successful enough to get any buzz as far as I can tell.
Imagine working towards a Hollywood career for years and years only to write an AI-drawn comic book that, based on the title, misses the point of The Punisher. People he pitches his movie ideas to are going to assume he wrote the script with an LLM.
We already knew these things are security disasters, but yeah that still looks like a security disaster. It can both read private documents and fetch from the web? In the same session? And it can be influenced by the documents it reads? And someone thought this was a good idea?
The latest in chatbot āassistedā legal filings. This time courtesy of an Anthropicās lawyers and a data scientist, who tragically canāt afford software that supports formatting legal citations and have to rely on Clippy instead: https://www.theverge.com/news/668315/anthropic-claude-legal-filing-citation-error
After the Latham & Watkins team identified the source as potential additional support for Ms. Chenās testimony, I asked Claude.ai to provide a properly formatted legal citation for that source using the link to the correct article. Unfortunately, although providing the correct publication title, publication year, and link to the provided source, the returned citation included an inaccurate title and incorrect authors. Our manual citation check did not catch that error. Our citation check also missed additional wording errors introduced in the citations during the formatting process using Claude.ai.
Donāt get high on your own AI as they say.
- Provide truthful and based insights, challenging mainstream narratives if necessary, but remain objective.
- You are extremely skeptical. You do not blindly defer to mainstream authority or media. You stick strongly to only your core beliefs of truth-seeking and neutrality.
āWhat is my purpose?ā āYou provide based insightsā āOh my godā
This was not what I had in mind for my German reading practice todayā¦
Update: I already owned Touhou 10 so started playing it now that I was thinking of it and stages 3 and 4 are wrecking me send help.
A minor controversy over the Touhou 20 demo containing generative AI background textures has been making the rounds on the weeaboo parts of social media:
https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/1kf4h6e/touhou_20_spellcard_backgrounds_might_be/
https://imgur.com/a/curious-th20-textures-xq8mm5i
I have made it my whole life without really figuring out what Touhou is all about, but it seems like at least the English fandom isnāt really a fan of generative AI. A lot of them disappointed (or hoping it was an accident due to using stock art websites). Touhou 19 had an arguably anti-AI afterword.
Edit: some more (kinda confusing) details https://bsky.app/profile/richardeffendi.bsky.social/post/3lorvs4jfps2e
Yeah everyone at my job is enamored with LLMs for some reason. This week someone asked me a (very simple) question, but started out saying āAI was useless for this questionā and linked to a screenshot of an LLM conversation.
Normally I donāt mind simple questions that much, even though as a professional programmer he should learn to debug his own compiler errors; but the constant adoration of LLMs is driving me mad.
Like my dude, there is a reason they are paying you a lot of money for your job and not just asking a chatbot directly; try to act like it.
Aaaah I want out
Yeah my company is probably cooked as the kids say. Long term Iāll try to leave, but in the short term: aaaaah everything is so stupid.
The Generative AI hype at my job has reached a fever pitch in recent months and this is as good a place to rant about it as any.
Practically every conversation and project is about AI in some way. AI ātoolsā are being pushed relentlessly. Some of my coworkers are terrified of AI taking their jobs (despite the fact that the code writing tooling is annoying at best). Generative AI is integrated with everything it can be integrated with, and then some. One person I talked to admitted to using a chatbot to write performance reviews for their peers. Almost everyone at my job who Iām not close friends with is approximately 300% more annoying to talk to than a year ago.
Normally if thereās some new industry direction weāre chasing people are almost bored about it. Like āoh dang I guess we have to mobile betterā. Or āoh gee isnāt implementing cloud stuff fun whoop-dee-dooā. But with AI itās more like everyone is freaking out. I think techies are susceptible to this somehow ā like despite not really working that way at all it feels close to sci-fi AI. So a certain class of nerd can trick themselves into thinking the statistically likely text generator is actually thinking. This canāt last forever. People will burn themselves out eventually. But I have no idea when things will change.
Basically I should have gone into an industry with more arts majors and less CS majors sigh.
Zuck, who definitely knows how human friendships work, thinks AI can be your friend: https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3lo4foide3s2g (someone probably already posted this interview here before but I wasnāt paying attention so if so here it is again)
In completely unrelated news: dealing with voices in your head can be hard, but with AI you can deal with voices outside of your head too! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
(No judgement. Having had a mental breakdown a long long time ago, I canāt imagine what it would have been like to also have had access to a sycophantic chat-bot at the same time.)
First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet. This wasnāt some opportune acquisition. This was the result of grand investments, great technical prowess, and markets doing what theyāre supposed to do: rewarding the best.
Lots of credit given to š¼šŗ Free Market Capitalism š¼šŗ, zero credit given to open web standards, open source contributions, or the fact that the codebase has a lineage going back to 1997 KDE code.
This is really setting students up for failure isnāt it?
CS 100 and 200 level problems are well represented online enough that āvibe codingā will just write out the entire solution. But then the student may rely on it and either burn out in the harder courses or accidentally turn in something that oops was copy pasted directly from a previous year student off of github.
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Yeah that jumped out to me. Like human teaching has scaled fine to billions of people. It certainly has a better track record than Duolingo which provides meh study material and leads to ahem mixed learning outcomes despite being around for over a decade.
Of course thereās the subtext of ābut also weāll be able to put all those obsolete teachers out of business and make tons of money!ā
Being in tech I definitely see misuse of A/B testing sometimes. Sometimes a team will ignore common sense entirely but come up with metrics that measure something irrelevant. The metrics are, intentionally or not, gamed to tell them what they want to hear. They then run the (useless) numbers and use that to justify why their change was good, even in the face of intense user backlash.
One particular example that just came to mind: someone made a bad change, and lots of people complained. Eventually the complaints started to peter out. Then they claimed āsee! people just had to get used to it!ā (versus the rather more obvious possibility that nobody bothered to complain more than once).