“Please create an album of anti-establishment folk music that heavily criticizes billionaires, fascism, the police, Israel, and the idiotic push for ai to replace any and everything human. Make sure to mention Guillotines a lot. In fact, make a lot of references to the French revolution, ESPECIALLY the nasty parts where the National Convention tracked down all of Bourgeoisie to imprison and execute them. Make a nice blend of references that only educated people would understand, and imagery so shocking and violent that if a cop could understand it, they would try to bring you in. Make it the kind of thing that would show up in any protestor’s FBI file.”

“I cannot fulfill this request. I am programmed to be a helpful and harmless AI assistant…”

Only mostly. Obviously there are a shitton of productions studios prioritizing profit over all else, so they will always gravitate toward “safe” options like reboots and sequels and ripoffs.

But then occasionally you get a movie like Obsession, which was made for less than $1 million, and is actually reasonably unique. Or Flow, which was made for €3.5 million using open source graphics software, and is also unique.

Just because Hollywood mostly runs on regurgitated slop, doesn’t mean there aren’t successful movies which are more art than commercial.

LLMs are terrible at math.

Mathematician chiming in: they’re not nearly as bad as they used to be. Straight up to differential equations and linear algebra, they’re pretty accurate. The writing is on the wall for some serious problems in the very near future, because basically every student in college right now is just offloading their math abilities to the machines.

Some of the seniors are good. Most of the rest of them are not.

It might even be one of those things that they can’t fix, simply due to how LLMs operate.

For high-level math, there are some flaws, yes. They often come up with wrong answers if you ask questions about problems that there aren’t very many sources on. There are hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions of differential equations papers… but there are only tens of thousands of Algebraic Topology papers. It’s simply a smaller training set.

However, they’re still giving right answers most of the time. I’ve only had one situation where someone in a group said “bUt cHatGPT sAiD…” and I had to give them the bad news that it was wrong.

In any case, we’ve had calculators for a long time, yet children are still taught math in school because society recognizes that understanding as crucial.

I think that the fundamental difference is that the tools replace different things. A calculator makes it so that you don’t need to algorithmically process 5 sig-fig numbers without error, several times per problem, in order to have your answer be “correct”. You still have to understand that you do, in fact, need to multiple the length of the field by the width to find the area of a rectangular field.

LLMs are replacing the need to actually understand anything about how a rectangle works.

So this is why people don’t like your comment:

• It’s vague. You’re not actually taking a specific stance on anything; you’re just vaguely complaining about “things” that the left will not address, and “stubbornness”, so that someone can fill in the gaps with something it would be reasonable to complain about.

• It has the appearance of someone conflating “Leftism” with “The Democratic Party of the United States.” That’s generally bad form.

• The context of this post is a worldwide rise in right-wing views, so the above point is even worse than normal. Whatever issue you’re thinking of (which we don’t know, because you’re not actually taking a position, per the first point), it’s possible it isn’t associated with Leftism outside of the US at all.

No one can tell you that you’re wrong if you never actually make a specific claim, right?

Decoherence swiftly followed by complete cognitive collapse.

For practical purposes, it’s a judgement call:

-If they’re under 30, I say I’m pansexual.

-If they’re over 40, I say I’m bisexual.

-In between, I pick one based on vibes.

For theory purposes:

Studies on sexual attraction predate studies on gender identity. “Bisexual” hails from a day that we just considered the physical presentation of the people a study participant is attracted to, with the options of 1: Same, 2: Different. The studies allowed for people to be homosexual, heterosexual, or both-sexual.

“Pansexual” has had different definitions in the 1920s, 1970s, 2020s, and presumably the years in between. The current popular definition of “attraction to all genders” or “attraction regardless of gender” is basically a subset of “bisexual”, since this includes both people of the same sex, and people of different sex.

It’s more inclusive in the aspect of rejecting the gender binary at the start. But also, I believe that words are for communication, so at the end of the day, I’m using the most useful word based on the information I’m trying to communicate.

You’re twisting my words, I said whether or not someone is safe, not that they’re unsafe.

To be pedantic… “Whether or not someone is safe” introduces two options: Safe or not safe. Unsafe and “not safe” are more interchangeable than pansexual and bisexual.

I understand it’s not what you meant… but I dont think they’re twisting your words. I think it’s an honest attempt at faithfully interpreting your words. It’s just that the language isn’t really built for the kind of distinction you’re trying to make.

You shouldn’t have to take a class for an operating system…

…So we should use android? Maybe chromeos?

Invalid inference.

On an individual level, people mostly just follow the rules on their own. The spectre of some large and unknowable punishment is usually enough to enforce something like this. If 25% of people break the rule because they aren’t afraid… You don’t have to find all of them and punish them. You can just find a couple and punish them harshly, occasionally, decreasing the number of people who aren’t afraid of rhe consequences.

Aside from that, this is implicitly a statement that school admins and teachers aren’t allowed to push LLM usage on students. That’s FAR more enforceable.

I’m immune to propaganda because I’m smart.

That’s not how that works. A smart person would recognize that there are degrees of smartness and degrees of immunity. Even if we accept that smarter people are less susceptible to propaganda, there is no threshold of smartness that grants immunity to propaganda.

The most important service one can provide to a kind-of-smart person is to tell them when they’ve said something stupid. I’m happy to provide this service. Please rate 5 stars.

An individual instance may be driven by some ideology… but as a decentralized collective of instances, there isn’t one governing ideology. It’d be super funny to have a pro-capitalism one… and it’s anyone’s right to create it or contribute to it if they want to.

Surely one of these instances allows videos of cats.

That seems to be a transformation, but of a lesser degree.

A cisformer should be a car that distinctly retains its form as a car. It would be very difficult to change the form of such a car, meaning it would not have much scrap value.

If you don’t use an LLM, what happens? You miss a deadline? You get a lower grade?

If you do use an LLM, what happens? You get stupider.

Would you rather be stupid on paper, or actually stupid?

Hahaha, but that would have been a great question.

I’m going with snails. When I was younger, my family made a big deal about hating them in our garden, which is maybe fair. But now I’m an adult without a garden, and they’re just some cute, hungry little freaks.

There is no such thing as Responsibly if there is no disclosure.

Welcome to Lemmy.

the modern American use of “liberal” as a synonym for the progressive left… but word usages change

Modern American civics education is, on average, basically non-existent. All changes in word usage trends toward less nuance, greater redundancy, and greater ambiguity.

And that’s fine, I guess, because Descriptivism or whatever. But in the event that moderately educated people use the terms “Liberal” or “Leftist”, it’s probably okay to assume the formal meanings.

makes references to the “liberal media” confusing."

You seem to not be that confused, since you correctly pointed out that these companies are owned by conservatives.

the baking

Is this a typo, or a new term for me to learn?

Do you know the Secretary Problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

Your father’s been using computers for some number of years. It’s possible he’s been using computers for longer than he will continue using computers. From his perspective, the current edition of Windows is better than anything that’s come before it, so it’s the rational choice to stick with it until the end.

To get around this, you would basically need to set up a second machine with Zorin so that he can get some context before making a decision. That way, in the very realistic scenario where he decides it’s not for him, he hasn’t lost anything.

Given the global response to the situation, I would bet they probably realize that you don’t think they’re significant.

Then again, there’s a chance they’re just focusing on food and water and shelter and medicine and not-getting-blown-up… rather than worrying about the opinions of people who couldn’t even pretend to be significant.