AI says to!

Still do in tons of places!

The “lack of friction” aspect seems like an understated issue. I think it’s bad, but less problematic, in issues like shopping online but it’s so important to see that “WTF?” look on people around you when you’ve got a crazy idea.

Chatbots are like an improv exercise in which you have to “yes, and” any madness pitched your way.

Hell, based on recent approaches, these articles might primarily to help train LLMs to talk “the right way” about this stuff.

From native genocide and chattel slavery to imperialist massacres, Vietnam, and the Middle East, it kinda feels like there were just a few good moments tucked into a pretty rough history.

For me, the current, open, cascade failure just highlights how thin the veneer over hundreds of years of atrocities has been.

A tax equal to double the increase in utility costs caused by data centers/server farms shall be collected and distributed equally between residents and the local municipality.

Last year? Not, like, constantly prior to that?

I appreciate how this newsletter/article does a solid job of highlighting some of the weird dealings we may be seeing that make these companies look more viable than they are (very much including these companies essentially subsidizing each other).

The big thing I keep coming back to is that there doesn’t seem to be a path to profitability for the LLMs. Chapo Trap House had an interview with Ed Zitron and he highlighted that some of the power users are pulling down over $50k in generation/prompt costs while spending $20 a month (or whatever, I’m spitballing the numbers).

Some may be closer to break even, but openAI is tens of billions in the hole (something like 13.5 billion net loss in the first half of the year alone).

Sure, they could triple prices but then you lose a percentage of customers etc etc.

Got a solid antivirus setup then?

The game won’t play and let me recapture the joys of youth. Oh god, I’m stuck being big.

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“Cavern of the Evil Wizard” from the movie Big. It looked so cool to me as a child.

Sure. We already do that some. But we do the same basic thing around not believing rumors and that doesn’t obliviate the harm they do.

Putting aside the issue of how many people want the rumor to be true or the deep fakes to be real, people expending effort to say/produce something harmful or uncomfortable is hurtful to the subject/victim. The idea that people could believe it is hurtful.

This is all exacerbated with young people because their brains are wired to care more about peer socialization and perception than adult brains.

Even things we know aren’t true damage our reputations and perceptions. I know JD Vance didn’t fuck a couch, but it’s one of the first things that comes to mind when he’s mentioned.

Education about the reality of AI generated nudes isn’t a bad thing (and, like, every teen already knows this is a thing, anyway), but that doesn’t stop the harm for the subject due to the association with the material.

And how much of that has been enabled by US backing?

Basically a mix of Westerns and Samurai flicks.

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This sounds exactly like me. Drinking vinegar, loving acidic foods, no cavities.

A very horny tree from The Last Unicorn

Additionally, they require a lot of rest and need to be rotated out more frequently than humans. Nazi Germany was very dependent on draft animals on WWII and the logistics were nuts.