They also needed to rapidly rein it in after gamers got it to pull a Tay AI and start spamming slurs.
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New artcle from Brian Merchant: An 'always on' OpenAI device is a massive backlash waiting to happen
Giving my personal thoughts on the upcoming OpenAI Device^tm^, I think Merchant's correct to expect mass-scale backlash against the Device^tm^ and public shaming/ostracisation of anyone who decides to use it - especially considering its an explicit repeat of the widely clowned on Humane AI Pin.
headlines of Device^tm^ wearers getting their asses beaten in the street to follow soon afterwards. As Brian's noted, a lot of people would see wearing an OpenAI Device^tm^ as an open show of contempt for others, and between AI's public image becoming utterly fouled by the bubble and Silicon Valley's reputation going into the toilet, I can see someone seeing a Device^tm^ wearer as an opportunity to take their well-justified anger at tech corps out on someone who openly and willingly bootlicks for them.
New Bluesky post from Baldur Bjarnason:
What’s missing from the now ubiquitous “LLMs are good for code” is that code is a liability. The purpose of software is to accomplish goals with the minimal amount of code that’s realistically possible
LLMs may be good for code, but they seem to be a genuine hazard for collaborative software dev
Google is very upset that a lot of the public don’t really like AI. You might think this was because of AI slop and explicit threats to their jobs, but Google is pretty sure it’s because people saw the Terminator films.
Okay, quick sidenote: I wouldn't be shocked if people looked at the Terminator in a different light after this bubble.
On the one hand, the basic idea of "AI turns sentient and kills us all" is pretty laughable in a cultural zeitgeist where "AI" means "plagiarism-fueled lying machine" or "plagiarism-fueled mediocrity generator" or "plagiarism-fueled atrocity machine" (okay, maybe not that last one). The general themes of "man vs machine" will likely shine through all the brighter, though - especially given how the AI systems involved in this bubble function explicitly through stealing the work of human authors, artists, and other such creatives, and exclusively through stealing said human creatives' work (ingesting AI slop slowly destroys AI systems, and everyone who works in AI rejects giving artists a fair shake out of principle).
On the other hand, the fact that AI has nonetheless still caused unimaginable damage to humanity (the environmental damage, the slop-nami, the fully-automatic worker abuse and enshittification, et cetera) might make the films feel oddly prescient, as it (plus the last 20-ish years of corporate malevolence) have made it clear that there are a lot of businessmen out there who would actively and willingly ruin the entire fucking world and potentially kill all of humanity if the alternative was "I, and I specifically, don't make all of the money ever".
And on the gripping hand, the likes of OpenAI and friends actively pushing AI Doom^tm^ to criti-hype their way into raising more money could paint Cyberdyne's existence in a much different light - with the breathless hype about AGI/superintelligence that Altman and Friends have put out, the general message they've been putting out is basically "We are actively trying to create the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus, because, uh, reasons. Please give us all of the money and ruin the world for our benefit and our benefit alone, otherwise we won't be able to make the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus".
Veering semi-OT: the guy behind the godawful Windows 11 GUI has revealed himself:
Looking at his Twitter profile, its clear he's a general dumpster fire of a human being - most of his feed's just him retweeting AI garbage or fash garbage.
Tante has a couple of questions for Anthropic:
ED ZITRON
FROM THE TOP ROPE
New piece from Iris Meredith: Keeping up appearances, about the cultural forces that gave us LLMs and how best to defeat them
If you get the call, charge as much as you can. Then charge more.
Words to live by.
So, he's essentially Drake if he got into AI doom
Tried to read it, ended up glazing over after the first or second paragraph, so I'll fire off a hot take and call it a day:
Artificial intelligence is a pseudoscience, and it should be treated as such.
I unfortunately know jack shit about quantum computing, so I can't really weigh in, but I am rooting for them to pull it off, because PsiQuantum getting all the VC money ever means AI stops getting all the VC money ever