In other news, all hell’s broken loose at BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/culturecrave.co/post/3lhv35la2pk2h

The “AI company” in question is a nonprofit that focuses on open-source safety tools which recently launched at the Paris AI Action Summit, but that was enough to cause things to go nuclear, especially given people initially flocked to BSky to get away from AI.

Thinking I should make this into a full post.

To reference a previous sidenote, DeepSeek gives corps and randos a means to shove an LLM into their shit for dirt-cheap, so I expect they’re gonna blow up in popularity.

People have worked out how to cram DeepSeek onto a Raspberry Pi

Anyways, here’s a quasi-related sidenote:

Part of me suspects DeepSeek is gonna quickly carve out a good chunk of the market for itself - for SaaS services looking for spicy autocomplete or a slop generator to bolt on to their products, DeepSeek’s high efficiency gives them a way to do it that doesn’t immediately blow a massive hole in their finances.

I do feel like active anti-scraping measures could go somewhat further, though - the obvious route in my eyes would be to try to actively feed complete garbage to scrapers instead - whether by sticking a bunch of garbage on webpages to mislead scrapers or by trying to prompt inject the shit out of the AIs themselves.

Me, predicting how anti-scraping efforts would evolve

(I have nothing more to add, I just find this whole development pretty vindicating)

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Good news everyone: A new tarpit to trap LLM scrapers just dropped

AI is useless, shut the fuck up

On another somewhat orthogonal point, I suspect AI has likely soured the public on any kinda tech-forward vision for the foreseeable future.

Both directly and indirectly, the AI slop-nami has caused a lot of bad shit for the general public - from plagiarism to misinformation, from shit-tier AI art to screwing human artists, the public has come to view AI as an active blight on society, and use of AI as a virtual “Kick Me” sign.

Sidenote: AFAIK, even with this pardon, Ulbricht still ended up spending more time in prison than if he took a plea deal he was reportedly offered:

He was offered a plea deal, which would have likely given him a decade-long sentence, with the ability to get out early on good behavior. Worst-case scenario, he would have spent five years in a medium-security prison and been freed.

Gotta say, this whole situation’s reminding me of SBF - both of them thought they could outsmart the Feds, and both received much harsher sentences than rich white collar criminals usually get as a result.

Somehow, Ross Ulbricht returned

If we did start apportioning political power to whoever can execute a basic strategy while clicking as fast as possible I think we’d all be bowing down to God-Emperor Flash or something.

Misread that and thought the joke was about bowing down to people who are good with Adobe Flash.

Admittedly, being good with Adobe Flash would be more impressive than being good at a video game - at the bare minimum, it implies you’ve got some art skills.

Also, a reminder that Musk was a junior programmer on two of the worst Sega CD games.

Which two? I already knew his accomplishments are pure garbage, I just wanna know which games he fouled with his programming “prowess”.

Shit’s so diseased its a sequel to Tuskegee. They cooked this cack with CIA-grade crack.

(I have no rational way to respond to this - I’m just trying some Dracula Flow-type shit and hoping it lands.)

To paraphrase one of South Park’s more infamous jokes (because I’m not giving this shit any dignity):

Looks like we’re getting a lotta sneer material here! The topic is “People Who Annoy Scoot”.

Man wrote nearly 5k words of pure unfiltered cap:

I’m not sure how someone can read all this without capping themselves. We could sneer this all fucking day.

Far as I can tell, the only real benefit here is significant energy savings, which would take LLMs from “useless waste of a shitload of power” to “useless waste of power”.

Starting off with a weapons-grade sneer: How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI

Personally, my money’s on them being thoroughly lost in the AI safety sauce - the idea of AI going rogue has been a staple in pop culture for quite a long time (TV Tropes lists a lot of examples), and the relentless anthropomorphisation of LLMs makes it pretty easy to frame whatever fuck-ups they make as a sentient AI pulling malicious shit.

And given man’s long and storied history of manipulating and misleading their fellow man, I can see plenty of opportunity for fuck-ups baked directly into your average LLM’s training data.

Found a couple QRTs cooking the guy which caught my attention:

https://twitter.com/denimneverdies/status/1872364569743786286

https://twitter.com/TheWapplehouse/status/1873915404529406462