Saying "AI" was "trained" on the work of artists and writers is the wrong metaphor. Their work was made into a database to be copied from and reproduced in small chunks. There is no mind learning or being trained. There is no "intelligence" in that reproduction There's plenty of artificial, tho.

I really admire people that are able to work on things at a consistent pace, marathon-like level rather than a series of eternal sprints and rests. I mean, I don’t understand it, but I admire it.

Whelp, seems like you can’t make them then, anyway-

We’ve limited ourselves to only two streaming services per year which means we tend to try out a lot of shows we would normally ignore. Sometimes you find gems. Sometimes you find La Brea (I hate this show so much but TB is into it now, save me).

My desk currently has three separate beverages on it, it’s definitely a writing day.

Thank you so much for asking, I will be ringing in the new year getting zonked on NyQuil and passing out on my couch, as our forefathers intended.

If your development process doesn’t include “how could this be misused” and coming up with ways to mitigate the harms, you’re doing it wrong.

Being a House of Disease during holiday break means TB is now way too familiar with the YouTube channels I like as I rewatch videos in an illness stupor.

So far my visits to DC have included Indian, Salvadoran, Greek, Georgian, Afghan, Palestinian, Ethiopian, Italian, Peruvian, Japanese, and French foods (plus a Korean bakery). What new things should I eat? Recs within easy walking or metroing from DuPont would be ideal.

It’s amazing how often politics talk makes me wish I weren’t a lawyer. I want the blessed gift of understanding less.

This response is such an infuriating cop-out. Sure, you didn’t create this for the purpose of creating realistic violent, sexual, or otherwise compromising and harmful images, but was that use EXTREMELY OBVIOUS and ANTICIPATED??

A delightfully caustic excoriation of Tesla from Defector: defector.com/youre-suppos...

“‘you should assume that anything you type into ChatGPT is just going to be fed directly into future versions of ChatGPT’. And if on reflection you decide you have revealed too much to ChatGPT, retractions are not really an option.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Don't fill your house with cheap internet-connected cameras. Set strong passwords. Apply your security updates.

Why the fuck are we a butterfly now.

Ruining Christmas by admitting to my in-laws that I hate Polar Express and Prancer. (There are SO MANY great Christmas movies! Those two aren’t included!)

Hello, hackers, my old friends They got my top tier apes again.

You would think that sometime BEFORE we hand over the world’s future to a bunch of billionaires we would check to confirm they’re not building a nightmare, but apparently no.

The potential for harassment and abuse with this (if it works), is immeasurable. www.404media.co/cmg-cox-medi...

If you’re wondering why Twitter would make significant enough changes to the link shortener that it would break all links, @molly.wiki posted this three hours before links broke on Twitter - an exploit that could take over a user’s account if they clicked on a link. Twitter did not pay a bounty.

Incredibly upsetting how hard I found these choices when the answer was obviously “they’re both nightmares.”

Who the fuck is giving these people money, please give it to me instead, I swear I can come up with a terrible dream I’m unqualified to achieve.

They were very angry I was “completely misreading the argument” of an article they had shared. Responding that I wrote the article did not make things better.

If you’re wondering whether the U.S. government is taking GAI risks and safety seriously, the House Oversight hearing yesterday featured several iterations of “the biggest risk is that we don’t use it FAST enough,” so no.

Absolutely terrified to see what kind of “humor” we can expect from a Musk GAI trained on Tweets.

Eh, 14,000 and 6.9 million are basically the same, right? techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/2...

No chance this will be used for deepfake porn, no siree

MOAR MOCKING. davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

Ah, yes, definitely “blackmail” and not, you know, cause and effect. It’s like those ridiculous “won’t someone sleep with the conservative men” pieces. They approach everything as something they deserve being withheld. Can’t imagine it as natural consequence for speech/actions.

Look, I try to be a kind and decent human being, but every now and then I want to just enjoy the public unraveling of the world’s worst and somehow most successful businessman and the death of a mass murdering war criminal. Let me have a little petty as a treat.

“Women don’t want to sleep with men whose core beliefs directly oppose their own and the men are sad so the women must be wrong” is such a bizarre article concept, but they keep rewriting it every few months.

My kingdom for a mainstream journalist who forgoes the “controversial statement” or “insensitive gaffe” language and just says “this rich, racist, transphobic piece of shit continues to be fucking awful.”

Ok, but “the time” implies he’s only done it once and…

One of my fears: AI is trained on existing clinical data and texts. Black folks are routinely and systematically given less pain relief as compared to white folks. The myth of Black folks feeling less pain is still alive and well, even among medical students (look it up). AI continues the trend.

I need to preface this by saying that I love the Brits, but a Brit friend was teasing me for saying Oxford is close to London. It’s like an hour and a half drive. My DAILY law school commute was 2 1/2 hours each way. If you don’t need to pack road trip snacks, it’s close.

What kind of cult of dystopic blandness has this man created.

My office art projects may be a bit too thematic.

“We could leave the Christmas lights up til January” Taylor, that is only one week after Christmas, that is not at all unusual, who takes the lights down earlier than that.

Really good article by a science fiction writer on TESCREAL philosophy, the terrifying influence of tech bros, and mistaking dystopias for road maps: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

What should one definitely do, see, or eat in Ottawa in December?

Will I ever in my life know the kind of joy I see on my child’s face when I ask if they are pooping.

“American Idiot” popping up on the radio as I’m dropping off my ballot feels a little on the nose.

Tech people: do you consider LLMs to be generative AI? Why or why not?

Still extremely obsessed with Robin McKinley’s books, tbh, both fairy tale retelling and original. And Sonali Dev’s modern Bollywood-style Jane Austen retellings have been so wonderful and fun.

I simply cannot with this cryptocurrency nonsense.