I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@datarama @Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ

I agree, although it's also a bit too easy to skip a beat and go to anger with this shit, because of how aggressively this dystopian tech is pushed on all of us.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@ainmosni @Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ For better or worse, I am (pathologically) slow to anger.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@datarama I wish there was a more aggressive backlash to the ruining of so many elements of our society that's this shit is causing. But polite society is  all too afraid to offend, or to call out blatant bullshit, or to say that things are actually being damaged.

@Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ

[rommix0@mindly.social]

@datarama Sounds like the AI slop you typically see on social media. That tracks.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@datarama @Doomed_Daniel @SnoopJ

Like, Musk's shitbot is generating CSAM, and none of our societies considered this grounds for an instant ban.

[moranaga@literatur.social]

@jimsalter Oh, yeah. You've just triggered a memory.

The most important server (central mail relay, among other things) at my former employer was administered by someone like that. Guess which root FS it was...
We had a meme when there was a problem and total chaos was to be expected: ‘Was the last admin on the system (name of the employee)?’ Then Hazmat suits were in order.

@Infoseepage @wrench @datarama

[techokami@woof.tech]

@datarama are you serious???? LMAOOOOOOOOO

[rewarp@rewarp.com]

@datarama@hachyderm.io

I kinda hazarded a guess before deciphering who it could be, and, yep, good old Kent Overstreet. So maybe we aren't too old for this.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@rewarp I mean, who else?

But still. That this is the sort of thing I read when I try to catch up on perfectly boring tech news is ... "wait, when did I stumble into the first chapter of the dumbest cyberpunk novel in history?".

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@datarama I chose to ignore the world until it stops working, at which point I'll get off and find another ride.

[mchollander@mastodon.chasalin.nl]

@datarama I didn't know AI's were creating their own soap opera's

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@datarama @ainmosni @SnoopJ
Me too, and this AI hype is a big factor in that.

TBH I lean towards pity for people who are completely lost (believing "their" AI is sentient) and loathe the people who are still aware that it's a tool, but believe/pretend that it's way more useful than it is or otherwise advocate for it. Worse if they're trying to push it on me personally, of course.

Can't help ridiculing both kinds, though..

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@datarama At least this one won't end up killing any real woman... hopefully.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@McHollander I would say that this particular soap opera was mostly created by aforementioned filesystem maintainer rather than by the LLM.

[piegames@flausch.social]

@tekhedd @datarama I checked, and this is an as accurate approximation of what happened as one can get within one toot

[mchollander@mastodon.chasalin.nl]

@datarama I mean, who even uses IRC anymore

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@cstross @wrench @datarama

Ah, ReiserFS. At Usenix in the naughties, a senior IBM engineer explained that "they make nipple clamps for people who like ReiserFS."

I feel that should have been a warning, but sysadmins are already accustomed to pain so we missed it.

[jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@datarama what? this sounds like the guy from reiserfs ... but isn't he in prison?

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@jabgoe2089 Kent Overstreet, the bcachefs maintainer.

[dashdsrdash@tilde.zone]

@datarama @jabgoe2089
Reminder that Kent has always been very bad at interacting with other people, especially anything involving politeness, procedure, compromise or negotiation.

And not quite brilliant enough to make people overlook that, especially Linus.