Copyright probably won’t fix it, especially now that you can Malus yourself a bespoke fork.

The core problem is that they’re too big to care. They don’t have to listen to customers, employees, or competitors. We need antitrust action and union organizing.

HN comments are predictably calling them terrorists, saying they’re funded by shady NGOs, and acting surprised that AI would be targeted for the shitty state of the world. Stay fashy, HN.

That’s cuz she’s fiiiiiine (tuned)

I’m not sure we really “skipped over” TUIs. It seems like they only got practical in the past 10-15 years.

But the broader point stands: The conditions do seem right for The Age Of The TUI. Go for it, homeslice.

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”

The real gender ideology was the children we mutilated along the way.

Fox News: “Gender ideology leads to mutilating children!”

Meanwhile, in an effort to preserve the appearance of an immutable, assigned-at-birth gender binary…

Same vibes as an addict going one day without their substance. “Day one was miserable, so I don’t see the point in sobriety.”

To be clear, I’m explicitly focusing on the moral subject here, not the object of their actions. When I say “abusing an LLM could injure the abuser’s humanity”, I’m making absolutely no claim about the LLM.

As I said in the previous thread about this:

LLMs aren’t conscious. They can’t feel pain.

But you should treat them kindly. Because even in a consequentialist or deontological frame, your morals rely on developing good habits; but in virtue ethics, moral habits is really all there is.

Edit: Very Bad Wizards actually covered this pretty well in this episode from 2018: https://verybadwizards.com/episode/episode-150-paul-bloom-insisted-that-we-talk-about-sex-robots

We already know that habitually using an LLM will weaken your critical thinking.

It would not be surprising to learn that habitually abusing an LLM would weaken your empathy.

For me it went from “didn’t know it existed” to “not interested in playing it”.

They used to do penetration testing on hy.men, but the results were unreliable

itch the d

Had to explain to my daughter why there are so many empty checkout lanes, and it struck me that I’m gonna have to explain a lot of ruins of a civilization that used to be a bit more human.

It is wild that Anthropic decided to go with “Claude”, as in “Claude Shannon”, as in the guy who formally proved that information degrades every time it passes through a channel that can’t represent it in a mathematically reversible way.

If you can’t theoretically produce the original code, given the “refactored” code… congratulations, you have lost information.

What kind of threat is that?

“So then when the pope says to value humanity over technology, I make a big show out of standing up, shaking my head, and walking out. He’ll be so embarrassed.”

My pickle’s what?

Passkeys plz

https://archive.ph/eOu09

There’s like two kinds of proposals, and whichever kind you make you get criticized. You make a big proposal, people say “Well yeah but how does that work on the ground?” You make an on-the-ground proposal, and people say “Well how does that scale to the whole thing?” Alright fine, then let’s just die!

Douglas Rushkoff at Bretton Woods 75