I vaguely recall once arguing that an arts education should be mandatory for all students. Honestly, that would probably solve a lot of problems in society.

Maybe if we banned teaching MBAs altogether alongside it…

manifesto: https://jregory.substack.com/p/why-we-are-torturing-clankers

If you called this a schizopost, Jreg would proudly agree with you. Especially the entire “You Are Autistic” section where he invents new and insane flavours of ableism, then proudly declares himself a schizophrenic, for the purpose of hating AI more.

This idea that the LLM is analogous to a camera is such an insipid, thought-terminating cliché.

Its completely wrong, too - the camera’s invention didn’t render painting obsolete like he implies. The only way you’d come to that conclusion is if you’re utterly devoid of creativity and artistic insight.

Iris suggested “prevent[ing] people from studying software development and only software development” in her article. I fully endorse that idea - at the bare minimum, it’d hopefully reduce the number of dipshits like this guy.

Pretty dead, checking one of their own graphs - the number of questions on the site has been in freefall for the past few years:

Starting off with a double bill:

• First, a new post from Iris Meredith about enshittification, featuring a cameo from the rats.

• Second, a truly godawful take on art history coming from a DHH defender (h/t Daphne Preston-Kendal)

Continuing on the Resident Evil talk, the T-Virus itself was the product of an eugenics program called Project W (aka: the Wesker Program), an eugenics program set on creating A Superior Breed of Man™, which would line up real nicely with the rats’ beliefs.

(They’d need to ignore Umbrella and its associates being complicit in over a dozen zombie outbreaks/apocalypses, but they can always rely on longtermism for that)

Zero advice on how to resist the siren song of a rogue AI trying to escape it’s box and zero insight on how OR WHY it might try to achieve that.

The best advice probably boils down to “Don’t be a rat in the first place”. As Soyweiser’s already mentioned, the AI only escapes if Yud’s playing against LW insiders.

Premium-quality sneer ran across my eyes recently: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across (and put in the wrong place):

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

Starting things off with a fresh sneer I recently ran across:

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros

Using AI is a skill issue in and of itself, adding some accidental irony to the title

Wherever they are, I hope they’re doing well, and I hope they can find somewhere where they won’t be betrayed like this.

Niccolò “Ice the Immigrants” Venerandi is doing a real good job keeping me away from KDE.

(Why did I have to jump into Linux when its going through shit like this?)

Have all pro llm people lost their minds?

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, yes, they’ve all fried their brains with the slop machines by this point, and some of them probably never had any.

It honestly bewilders me how badly tech has failed to resist the slop machines.

Basically everyone else has recognised LLMs for the attack on labour they are and fought back against them, whilst a shocking number of coders and FOSS projects have thrown themselves headfirst into the deskilling machines, all-but forcing the foxes into the henhouse and shouting down anyone who tries to keep them out.

When this bubble finally blows, we need to work out just how we got to this point, and how to ensure it never happens again.

At this point, I’d say calling it a Nazi bar is fully reasonable.

Looks to be a spinoff of the red-top tabloid the Daily Star. So, hardly a solid source of info.

Still, good to show what kinda shit LLMs spew out on a constant basis

people have noted that the writing style unfortunately appears to be ai-generated

Fittingly ironic, in my opinion.

And not just from AI getting fed into the AI:

404 Media spoke to a fourth contractor who has worked on training models for various AI companies. They said they sometimes purposefully chose the worst responses because they wanted to actively sabotage the models’ training.

“I did feel guilty about doing this kind of work at the start,” they said. “I either pay zero attention to the results and choose randomly or purposely choose the [worst] output. I’m not sure how much of a difference it actually makes since there are hundreds of other people also rating prompt results, but it does feel like I’m getting paid to make AI worse.”

Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er has penned a follow-up to Baldur’s lament on webdev, bringing a degree of hope to the convo on webdev’s future.