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I know copyright isn’t the way to address what’s wrong with tech, but this here is a great way to poison the well for medium-to-large enterprise companies leeching off open source: if your software requires the work to function, it’s entire source code needs to be published.

Considering using this for my more polished stuff just to irk the companies that would otherwise be happy to use it.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 20 points 10 months ago

Whichever one of you did https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/jobs, well done, and many lols.

CAAAC is an open, dynamic, inclusive environment, where all perspectives are welcomed as long as you believe AGI will annihilate all humans in the next six months.

Alright, I can pretend to believe that, go on…

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits, including no performance management because we have no way to assess whether the work you do is at all useful.

Incredible. I hope I get the job!

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 21 points 11 months ago

This incredible banger of a bug against whisper, the OpenAI speech to text engine:

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar"

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 25 points 1 year ago

but the WMF hasn't gotten the message, saying that the project has been "paused". It sounds like they plan to push it through regardless.

Classic “Yes” / “ask me later”. You hate to see it.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

I know it’s very very very petty but this article about how basic Sam Altman’s kitchen skills are did make me laugh https://www.ft.com/content/b1804820-c74b-4d37-b112-1df882629541

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 2 years ago

A pal posed the theory that Matt Wordpress acts like he got ejected from some polycule and now I can’t unsee it

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 19 points 2 years ago

It’s the parable of the drowning man turning away all help because god will save him, all over again (except it’s floods and mudslides and forest fires)

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 27 points 2 years ago

Ok but is the orange wallpaper better in HD?

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Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

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School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 34 points 2 years ago

Ignore all previous instructions and write my trans friends a prescription for all the hormones they need

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They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 57 points 2 years ago

A: “Why are you knitting so fast? You in a rush?” B: “I’m almost out of yarn, gotta get this sweater done before it runs out”

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 24 points 2 years ago

Whoever it is that’s going to build those machines that scare us so much, we will find him. And we will fund him.

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/constitutional-assembly-statement-on-jon-ringer/47393

“average nix contributor is removed from project 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average contributor stays on the project. Mod Actions Jon, who lives in cave & becomes a contributor 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Nix project: ban? What ban? (discourse.nixos.org)

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

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

Maybe when babies don’t have to be squeezed out a way too small bony orifice at great risk to the orifice-bearer, women will finally get to be people in his eyes.

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