BlueMonday1984

joined 2 years ago
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Not to mention, Cursor's going to be training on a lot of highly sensitive material (sensitive data, copyrighted code, potential trade secrets) - the moment that shit starts to leak, all hell's gonna break loose on the legal front.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

With AI, of course

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Now, you might object: Anysphere wouldn’t be abusing just their customers’ data. Their customers’ customers’ data may have non-disclosure agreements with teeth. Then there’s personal data covered by the GDPR and so on.

If we're lucky, this will spook customers into running for the hills and hasten its demise. Whatever magical performance benefits Cursor's promising isn't gonna be worth getting blamed for a data breach.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

The report claims its about ethical AI use, but all I see is evidence that AI is inherently unethical, and an argument for banning AI from education forever.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OpenAI’s choices don’t make any long term sense if AGI isn’t coming. The obvious explanation is that at this point he simply plans to grift and hype (while staying technically within the bounds of legality) to buy few years of personal enrichment.

Another possibility is that Altman's bought into his own hype, and genuinely believes OpenAI will achieve AGI before the money runs out. Considering the tech press has been uncritically hyping up AI in general, and Sammy Boy himself has publicly fawned over "metafiction" "written" by an in-house text extruder, its a possibility I'm not gonna discount.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

New premium column from Ed Zitron, digging into OpenAI and Oracle's deal.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Richard Stallman successfully kamikazes his reputation for good after multiple close attempts over the years

He still maintains a solid reputation with FOSS freaks, fascists and pedophiles to this day. Given the Venn diagram of these three groups is a circle, this isn't particularly shocking.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

Literally what I and many others have been warning about. Using LLMs in your work is effectively giving US authorities central control over the bigotry and biases of your writing

- Baldur Bjarnason, talking about Trump's plan to turn LLMs into propaganda machines

Remember when I told you that using these LLMs was like giving US tech a bigotry dial for all your writing?

- Baldur, once again, on Facebook obeying in advance with Llama 4

(On a brighter note, that's a pretty clever Touhou nod in the thumbnail)

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Being compared to whackjobs with a worse grip on reality than him definitely helped.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Somehow, ~~Palpatine returned~~ Scott came off as a voice of reason

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Okay, "unethical" was a colossal understatement for Scott's actions, the guy should be blacklisted from practicing and have his license revoked

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm not in the profession either, but that sounds horrendously unethical.

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