The billionaires' dreams of defeating death with technology have been "realised" by Marvel, which is planning an AI-Powered^tm^ hologram of him at L.A. Comic Con.
To the shock of nobody, this act of exploitation through digital necromancy is being met with unfiltered disgust.
Axel Springer also messed about with AI slop at Politico, leading to the union filing a dispute.
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[Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner] used to write books. But he’s got a machine doing it for him now, and he’s convinced you can’t write for yourself either. Even if it’s your job. Get with the programme!
Döpfner sounds like a genuinely dogshit writer if a text extruder managed to impress him
"rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast"
Got a pretty fitting post just up the thread:
anyway it turns out i spoke too soon: enough people have already stepped down to the point where dhh is now paying to keep the lights on
so the answer is "the only people left are paid to be there, everyone else walked away"
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(Clever use of Betteridge's Law of Headlines there, I gotta say.)
They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks
We at least got to see a well-aimed sneer in response:
A second trashfire has hit the Ruby language - RubyGems was hit with a hostile takeover from Ruby Central, seemingly to squash an attempt at putting together an official governance policy.
Between that and DHH's fascist screed, its not been a good week for Ruby.
Quick PSA for anyone who's still on LinkedIn: the site's stealing your data to train the slop machines
Nah, its completely on-topic - "bad tech hurting people" has become a major theme of our current times, a bad glucose monitor hurting diabetics is completely expected
The paper is 94 pages, but if you read through, they openly admit they’ve got nothing. Section 3.1, “Covert actions as a proxy for scheming”, admits directly:
Current frontier models likely lack the sophisticated awareness and goal-directedness required for competent and concerning scheming.
If those promptfondlers could read, they'd be very relieved.
I bet these guys are haunted by the malevolent artificial intelligence power of thermostats. It switched itself on!!
Considering how chatbot abuse causes psychosis and Apollo are AI doomsday cultists trying to convince themselves chatbots are malevolent, I genuinely think they might have gotten to that point.
They've already extruded a fake semblance of humanity for the government corruption machine, might as well extrude some flimsy botshit to "justify" its unjustifiable existence
A new artificially-extruded minister has given its inaugural address to Albania's parliament, defending its role as "not here to replace people, but to help them".
You exist to replace would-be resistance with a digital Quisling, shut the fuck up
"Let me remind you, the real danger to constitutions has never been the machines but the inhumane decisions of those in power," the clanker said.
Your purpose is to perpetrate inhumane decisions and protect those in power from accountability, shut the fuck up
The AI also responded to constitutional concerns, noting that the law "speaks of duties, responsibilities, transparency, without discrimination."
"I assure you, I embody these values as rigorously as any human colleague. Perhaps even more so."
You spew lies and perpetrate bigotry with every syllable you extrude from your "corpus" of stolen humanity, shut the fuck up
Same here. The main things stopping the LWers are that
(a) what they're doing is utterly divorced from modern science
(b) they are godawful writers, to the point where it took years of billionaire funding and an all-consuming economic bubble to break them into the mainstream