[-] aio@awful.systems 27 points 2 months ago

CS has a huge number of people who think you can derive the solutions to social problems from first principles. It's impossible to reason with them.

[-] aio@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago

Hochman correctly deduces that R9PRESENTATIONALism originated in the 18th century, but fails to realize that the roots of this movement actually lie with the Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society which was supposedly suppressed by edict in 1784 but has in fact maintained a shadowy existence influencing politics up to the present day.

[-] aio@awful.systems 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You're totally misunderstanding the context of that statement. The problem of classifying an image as a certain animal is related to the problem of generating a synthetic picture of a certain animal. But classifying an image of as a certain animal is totally unrelated to generating a natural-language description of "information about how to distinguish different species". In any case, we know empirically that these LLM-generated descriptions are highly unreliable.

[-] aio@awful.systems 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created “any kind of problem.”

“The ship was an unsinkable ship,” he said. “I say it, I repeat it.”

- Designer of sunken ship

[-] aio@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago
[-] aio@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

don't mention skull sizes for 5 minutes challenge

[-] aio@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] aio@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dan Luu's "A discussion of discussions on AI bias", about techbros trying to gaslight the rest of the world into thinking ML models don't have problems

[-] aio@awful.systems 23 points 2 years ago

value is when line go up

[-] aio@awful.systems 48 points 2 years ago

I don't want to come and help "balance out" someone who thinks that using they/them pronouns is worse than committing genocide.

Does anyone really think this, or are you just using hyperbole?

Not hyperbole. Hanania, Manifest promoted speaker, wrote "Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?" in May 2022.

I just can't, it's like that one scene from Austin Powers.

[-] aio@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"[massive deficiency] isn't a flaw of the program because it's designed to have that deficiency"

it is a problem that it plagiarizes, how does saying "it's designed to plagiarize" help????

[-] aio@awful.systems 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The normal way to reproduce information which can only be found in a specific source would be to cite that source when quoting or paraphrasing it.

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