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[–] BioMan@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I just ran a test and after a few google-gemini-assisted searches about satellite launch rates and a few back and forth questions about orbital debris and relative masses of different spacecraft to prime the system, I was able to evoke from gemini a massive unhinged rant about orbital goblins and their culture and effects on the global climate with a single instance of the word "Goblins!" at the end of a prompt.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Here's some slobslicker whose stating model collapse is cool actually because human culture also has a bunch of weird quirks

https://davidoks.blog/p/language-models-are-weird-for-the

a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that "so what if it's stupid, people are stupid too" well yeah but that's not the promise is it. The promise is PhDs on tap, not average Facebook poster

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 12 hours ago

a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that “so what if it’s stupid, people are stupid too”

I have to assume that people who assert this "defense" will be incapable of designing tools that don't insult the user

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, the mind goblins manifested themselves into existence. Terrifying

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 19 hours ago

the youtube vid is a huge hit too, everyone loves pissed off goblin lady

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Fun how articles like these make goblins relevant for talking about AI again. Can't stop the goblin! Goblin collapse!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 22 hours ago

You can't stop the goblin. Nobody can stop the goblin.