Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
(Another post so soon? Another post so soon.)
āGen AI competes with its training data, exhibit 1,764ā:
Also got a quick sidenote, which spawned from seeing this:
This is pure gut feeling, but I suspect that āAI trainingā has become synonymous with āart theft/copyright infringementā in the public consciousness.
Between AI bros publicly scraping against peopleās wishes (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C), the large-scale theft of data which went to produce these LLMsā datasets, and the general perception that working in AI means you support theft (Exhibit A, Exhibit B), I wouldnāt blame Joe Public for treating AI as inherently infringing.
Thatās not what research means, you embossed carbuncle.
Itās fucking James Somerton with extra steps!
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/1841848120897912967#m
jfc
Edit: replaced screenshot of tweet + description with link to tweet
jesus christ, as if āpodcastsā consisting of random idiots regurgitating wikipedia werenāt bad enough as it is
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ācuratedā
it shouldnāt surprise me that the dipshit who was massively involved in āsolving languageā doesnāt understand the meaning of words, but grrrrr
(and I say that as an armchair linguist who understands that language is as people use it (fuck prescriptivism))
āIn the what now?ā, he said, voice trembling with a mixture of horror and excitement
proudly displayed on his blog timeline
Wait, did OpenAI claim somewhere they will āsolve languageā?
no, thatās a personal extrapolation/framing characterising some of the shit Iāve seen from these morons
(they engaged with very few linguists in the making of their beloved Large Language Models, instead believing they can just data-bruteforce it; this plan gone as well as has been observed)