hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok
It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the “boo AI” club.
This isn’t a purity thing. This is a “everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people” thing.
Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can’t defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.
You can stop using character.ai today. You can say “I listened to the facts and stopped.” And another thing: don’t you think it’s a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you’re in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?
also posts in the spirit of “if you’ve used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!” can’t be great to those with OCD
y'all I used to mess with generative AI all the time back in like 2020-2021 before chatgpt was a thing and it generated entertaining nonsense
i had a paid subscription to inferkit for my amusement. it was a whole thing
Thing is. Since I played with LLM’s back when they were in their early stages. I know how they work. specifically i am intimately aware of why they aren’t, and can’t be, “intelligent,” and why there’s no way they could possibly work well for the tasks they are being used for
you see, the earlier models offered sliders to manipulate the amount of “randomness” in the result and how the “randomness” was applied. Set the sliders low, you get endless loops of repeating words and sentences; set the sliders high, and you get nonsense gobbledeygook
furthermore, chatGPT has a sort of framing device where all the outputs are formatted in “person talking to another person” form; earlier models didn’t use this and they just generated “more” of whatever you input
it made it very hard to miss that it is a statistically likely sentence assembling machine
i tried chatgpt when it first came out and i was like wow. i can’t do anything to manipulate the result? this is stupid.
of course that was on purpose because if you give users any insight into how the responses are being assembled, the illusion of it being like, intelligent and able to talk to you falls apart.
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DO NOT CALL THE REGULAR POLICE.
they are not on your side.
Very explicitly, in the video, the regular police straight up lie to the couple, telling them they will go to jail for harboring a fugitive if they dont hand the doordasher over, and that it doesnt matter if ice has a warrant for her arrest. NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. You CANNOT be harboring a fugitive if the person you are haboring doesnt have a warrant out for their arrest! The warrant is what makes them a fugitive!
If ice wants access to someone on your property, do NOT hand them over unless you are shown a warrant signed by a judge! Make as much noise as you can to attract bystanders - it was the fact that a crowd gathered and started yelling at them that made ice leave in the video. And DO NOT expect the regular police to help you - they are just another arm of the state and will only do or say whatever they think is necessary to make you comply.
And make sure you film everything so you have evidence of what really happened if ice tries to enter your property illegally.
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I bet there’s at least one guy who uses a wheelchair who became a sneakerhead just for the laughs. Wearing pristine bright white brand shoes like “if you let your shoes touch the ground you’re a bitch. If you keep them on display and never wear them, you’re a coward. I’m the only one doing this correctly. Fuck you, get on my level.”
sleeping on the floor is making a comeback after i was in the woods for 12 hours and fell asleep on my doormat after getting home.
maybe it shouldn’t. I woke up convinced there was a portal opening to the rat dimension next to me but it was my headlamp
you need to go back to the rat dimension they need your help
last time i listen to you
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