@tylerlwsmith or this https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/112407741329145666

@tylerlwsmith shameless self-advertisement. I post a lot of non-tech stuff but occasionally I do some way-too-long tech deep dive like this one: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863

@Em0nM4stodon I've been thinking about this, prompted by things like the Gemini protocol. What would a protocol/standard that takes away the economic incentives that made the internet bad look like? I feel like this is something we could come up with.

When talking about the energy consumed by LLMs don't be fooled by arguments focusing solely on the direct power consumption of these models, because they are externalizing a lot of it. Browsers are now doing proof-of-work calculations to access many websites, because websites need to protect themselves from AI scrapers. That takes power! Let that sink in: every computer, tablet or phone on earth is now consuming more power *every time it accesses a webpage* because of "AI".

@bit absolutely, and it gives people the impression that they have failure modes, which they don't. Their output is text which they cannot verify, so whether the text is factually right or wrong is irrelevant. Both are valid and completely expected outputs.

@kinou @Andres4NY not necessarily, or at least not as a follow-up. The operator might have primed the bot to follow this course of action in the original prompt, and included all the necessary permissions to let it publish the generated post automatically.

Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.

@pheonix *vibe-coding intensifies*

On the one hand I'm very tired. The state of the world around us is truly terrible and nobody can ignore it. But on the other hand I'm not giving up. The struggle will be long but we must never give up hope. We'll make this world a better place, this society a better society and ultimately ourselves better human beings.

@dummzeuch I don't want to kink-shame but this guy's idea of fun is peculiar

@StaticR and still getting it wrong

RE: https://mstdn.social/@990000/115993630141888644

How did we end up in the timeline where instead of writing a note on a post-it and sticking it to the door one needs A HUNDRED THOUSAND GPUS WHICH COST A TRILLION DOLLARS AND BURN A TERAWATT OF POWER WHILE GIVING ZERO FUCKS ABOUT COPYRIGHT OR CONSENT?