A note from one of my favourite authors at the moment.

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@thirstybear Also, fire does have constructive uses. Not so LLMs.

[helge@mas.to]

@thirstybear Did you know there are legit use cases for stabbing strangers and taking their money. For example, if I were to run a tattoo shop, I wou- what? You need an ambulance? I am not convinced you are losing a dangerous amount of bloo- ...sir! Please be civil! I am trying to engage you in a constructive debate!

[nilz@norden.social]

@thirstybear

@scalzi

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@thirstybear

does anyone have one of those tweets from around 2022:

listening to anti covid vax people is like saying don't wear a coat cause I know one person who froze to death wearing a coat

[triptilt@mastoart.social]

@thirstybear
why plural? and why is he not on mastodon???

[forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de]

@thirstybear The thing I expect and fear how we end up: Courts will indeed figure out that the slop machine is regurgitating what it was “trained” with. But, as usual, because courts protect big companies, they will grant Disney a right to take a share of the money the LLMs make, but not the individual artist. Why and how? They will argue that while Disney as a big company has such a vast amount of material taken for training, it does matter to the output, but the individual artist didn't, it's just a minor contribution that doesn't count.

The slop machine also stole what ample of free software programmers uploaded to GitHub. That's why it seems to be able to program better than your average programmer, but still makes beginner's mistakes.

[yugthebug@mastodon.social]

@jmax

@thirstybear I think they mean machine learning, not llms

[resuna@ohai.social]

@yugthebug @jmax @thirstybear

LLMs are like AN/FO explosive when compared to most uses of machine learning style fire.

"You object to me blowing up your house but I see you using a gas stove."

[allanb@mastodon.social]

@thirstybear Ban fire, of course!

[707kat@mastodon.art]

@thirstybear Ah, thanks for sharing it. I found the quote on Bsky and shared it over there.

https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com/post/3mj6q3pdblc2y

[gargron@mastodon.social]

@TripTilt @thirstybear He is: @scalzi

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@thirstybear very aptly put!

[dneary@mastodon.ie]

@thirstybear I enjoyed his book about the accidental supervillain! What else of his should I read next?

[assimilateborg@kind.social]

@thirstybear in my long quest to find AI any use, I found "one shot usage programs". So you generate them once. They do a thing by only running once, and then you never ever need them again. Especially you don't need to maintain them as you delete the program immediately after use.
That's a very specific use case. Security researchers do that.

[delilahtech@tech.lgbt]

@dneary
Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society
@thirstybear

[timwardcam@c.im]

@resuna @yugthebug @jmax @thirstybear You probably use an ML system every time you spend money - every transaction is fraud scored at some point, some multiple times.

[allanb@mastodon.social]

@dneary @thirstybear The Old Man's War series is really good.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@thirstybear - and this assunes there is, in fact, legitimate uses for AI, which very muchremains to be proven...

[kichae@wanderingadventure.party]

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency It’s been very good foor the rapid spread if disinformation!

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@dneary @thirstybear the Old Man's War series is pretty good