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- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 4 days ago:
Probably a lot of that in the data the model was trained on.
Garbage in, garbage out, as they say, especially when the machine is a rather inefficient garbage compactor.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 6 days ago:
IMO they’re the same picture. In either case, the human enabling the bot’s actions should be blamed as if those were their own actions, regardless of their “intentions”.
Oh, definitely. It’s 100% the responsibility of the human behind the bot in either case.
But the second option is scarier, because there are a lot more ignorant idiots than malicious bastards.
If these unsupervised agents can be dangerous regardless of the intentions of the humans behind them, we should make the idiots using them aware that they’re playing with fire and they can get burnt, and burn other people in the process.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 6 days ago:
From what I read it was closed because it was tagged as a “good first issue”, which in that project are specifically stated to be a means to test new contributors on non-urgent issues that the existing contributors could easily solve, and which specifically prohibits generated code from being used (as it would make the whole point moot).
The agent completely ignored that, since it’s set up to push pull requests and doesn’t have the capability to comprehend context, or anything, for that matter, so the pull request was legitimately closed the instant the repository’s administrators realised it was generated code.
The quality (or lack thereof) of the code never even entered the question until the bot brought it up. It broke the rules, its pull request was closed because of that, and it went on to attempt to character assassinate the main developer.
It remains an open question whether it was set up to do that, or, more probably, did it by itself because the Markov chain came up with the wrong token.
And that’s the main point: unsupervised LLM-driven agents are dangerous, and we should be doing something about that danger.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 6 days ago:
The point is that there was no one at the wheel. Someone set the agent up, set it loose to do whatever the stochastic parrot told it to do, and kind of forgot about it.
Sure, if you put a brick on your car’s gas pedal and let it run down the street and it runs someone over it’s obviously your responsibility, and this is exactly the same case, but the idiots setting these agents up don’t realise that it’s the same case.
Some day one of these runaway unsupervised agents will manage to get on the dark web, hire a hitman, and get someone killed, because the LLM driving it will have pulled the words from some thriller in its training data, obviously without realising what they mean or the consequences of its actions, because those aren’t things a LLM is capable of, and the brainrotten idiot who set the agent up will be all like, wait, why are you blaming me, I didn’t tell it to do that, and some jury will have to deal with that shit.
The point of the article is that we should deal with that shit, and prevent it from happening if possible, before it inevitably happens.
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 1 week ago:
Anyone who uses duckduckgo, since that’s where it gets its results from.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
It’s basically a gaming laptop. $1,000 was the minimum expectable price before RAM got pulled into the “AI” bubble.
- Comment on Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing and other FAQs 2 weeks ago:
That wouldn’t work, too much latency, RAM needs to be as close to the CPU as possible.
- Comment on AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release 2 weeks ago:
Feels like it’s been 2026 for years already. Can’t bear the thought of there being even more of it.
- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 5 weeks ago:
Micron is altering the contract, pray they don’t alter it any further.
- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 5 weeks ago:
Seriously, how was anyone expecting less than $1,000 before the RAM bubble?
Given the current RAM prices anything less than $2,000 would almost certainly be selling it at a loss, or as a kit without RAM, so I expect Valve will just have to cancel it.
Shit’s fucked.
- Comment on Biometric 'human washing machine' cleans, dries and adapts to your mood 2 months ago:
- Comment on Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web 3 months ago:
Of course it won’t. It already did.
Can’t kill it again once it’s already dead.
- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 4 months ago:
Same reason fax is still a thing you need if you want to do anything official or business related, why PC-98 was a thing, why their smartphones are weird, why they invented the term Galapagos syndrome, or why they use laptops that still have compact disk drives and look like this:
No, really, this is a 2025 model.
Japan innovates early. They innovate fast. And then they sort of… stop.
Technology in Japan looks futuristic for a while, then the rest of the world catches up, but, since Japan has already been there for a decade and made different decisions their technology looks… odd, and then the world carries on, while Japan seems stuck in some kind of retrofuturistic limbo.
Of course this is happening with different innovations at different times and paces, so from an outside perspective Japan is always a weird combination of futuristic, weird old alternate future, and just plain weird.
- Comment on AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities 5 months ago:
Garbage in, garbage out.
Especially when you shove it into a garbage maker.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 5 months ago:
There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.
Eh, watch some French protests, especially ones involving French farmers. Spraying manure into government buildings is one of the classics.
As long as you don’t kill anybody (or any pets or livestock), it’s still just a protest.
(And Medialab AI doesn’t seem to have any human employees left, only executives and marketing drones, so no one would get hurt if it got burned down, on the contrary, it’d be a net benefit for humanity).
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 5 months ago:
If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.
This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modified the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…
This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…
