[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

It's term time again and I'm back in college. One professor has laid out his AI policy: you should not use an AI (presumably Chat GPT) to write your assignment, but you can use an AI to proofread your assignment. This must be mentioned in the acknowledgements. He said in class that in his experience AI does not produce good results and that when asked to write about his particular field it produces work with a lot of mistakes.

Me, I'm just wondering how you can tell the difference between material generated by AI then edited by a human, and material written by a human then edited by an AI.

[-] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

While googling around for stuff about them I found this article about a sting Hope Not Hate did on them. They produced a slideshow of doom for a fictional wealthy investor, imagining a proposed eugenicist city state on the Isle of Man.

What is it with these people and islands? Bankman-Fried wanted to buy Nauru. I assume none of them realize the inherent economic and planning disadvantages of building your empire on a tiny island....

[-] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

"pro-LGBT rights" here means "pro Peter Thiel". He gives them a lot of money.

[-] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

They don't want to make a population level impact on demographics, they want their kids to be the new aristocracy

[-] maol@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

The people of Muskogee will have their revenge on Jack Dorsey

[-] maol@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A shame. Seems like they were clearly inspired by it .... I guess you can't copyright a vibe.

[-] maol@awful.systems 29 points 2 months ago

She's entitled to a "default mode of victimhood"! She is your victim!

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submitted 4 months ago by maol@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

[-] maol@awful.systems 45 points 8 months ago

They bought this house and the one next door for $575,000; they allow their neighbours to live in the second house rent free, in exchange for childcare.

Seems normal !

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submitted 8 months ago by maol@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

[-] maol@awful.systems 40 points 9 months ago

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

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"AI for dummies" interview from Irish radio with Dr Abeba Birhane, who's on a UN advisory board about AI.

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According to wikipedia, Runaway received "mixed reviews".

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Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence". Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to people in here, but eloquently stated and put into a wider political context.

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Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

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