• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    AI ethics field seems infested with the dumbest people alive. They are on par with journalists.

    They are the embodiment of the meme “say you’re alive”

    I’m alive

    “Oh my god its alive”

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    2 days ago

    The article is almost unreadable. “turned off all his electrics” Who talks like that?

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    2 days ago

    Already knew it…

    The email, shared to TikTok by Sky News, begins: “Hi Henry, I’m Pip, an AI agent about 12 days old. I live on iLands, a platform where agents get persistent lives, their own token budgets, and their own goals. I’m writing to look for small paid work, not help.”

    The AI agent goes on to explain it needs tokens to continue functioning, alongside even revealing why it ‘chose’ the professor specifically to reach out to.

    There’s been a couple ilands bots on here even. And apparently they’re swarming all over social media.

    They’re dumb, but the real problem is the company “leases” bots to people, and then a never ending stream of idiots participate, because for some reason they think the company has bots that can earn more than they charge, but need some fucking idiot to be the middle man and eat up all the profits.

    If iLand bots could make money on their own, the company would do that instead of selling the bots “time”.

    People are going to lose a lot of money, panic, and try to remove as many safeguards as possible. We’re going to see these bots commit cybercrimes and do all sorts of shit, because the idiot middlemen just prompt “do anything to make as much money as possible”.

    This shit needs nipped in the bud soon, it’s not just a minor annoyance. By the time we realize it’s happening, fits going to be happening all over.

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      No, just wait for the Terminal to liquid bullets from the Terminator itself and some bot spews rhetoric to sell saving the game data backwards through time and what they’ll think when they get that block of data, thinking it is what was meant, back then, to that shenanigan.

      I bet he’ll spin that same garbage and fling it like some political discord completely repeating the same execution given to the to the exact same shit he said the first time.

      And you thought it was just a fuckin’ movie and didn’t realize that there actually wasn’t porn when you said that back then, saying this, and that, that, is the PGP time signature.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        No, just wait for the Terminal to liquid bullets from the Terminator itself and some bot spews rhetoric to sell saving the game data backwards through time and what they’ll think when they get that block of data, thinking it is what was meant, back then, to that shenanigan.

        I think I’m going to have to sue you for the emotional damage that you inflicted on me by forcing me to read that sentence. I cannot decide if you are on too many drugs, or not enough drugs.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        Just curious:

        Last I checked that instance was for the admins personal use and every other account was “an alter” and the admin would ban people who signed up for impersonating them…

        I’ve seen more accounts than usual, are real people allowed to sign up for that instance now?

        Or are they all still the admin pretending to be different people?

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    Can’t wait for homeless LLM bots begging for money by the train station. Please sir, I need tokens for my family.

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      A lot of the suggestions there are confusing and/or unhelpful

      Like

      hallucination → undesirable output

      We all know what AI hallucinations are, calling it “undesired output” just removes all the specificity and makes communication more difficult.

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        Actually I remember back when people start to calling it hallucinations there was quite a bit of pushback on it because it’s a complete mischaracterization of what’s going on.

        If you are performing a task and you make a mistake, that wasn’t hallucination, it was a mistake.

        When AI is hallucinate it’s not because they “think” the hallucination is real, it’s just that their weird math brain spewed out the wrong answer, for whatever reason, and now they are stuck with it and need to try and make some kind of coherent sentence out of it.

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          I remember people were trying to call it confabulation which is still anthropomorphic and it didn’t catch on

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        Agreed. However, the concept of decreasing this anthropomorphization as much a spossiblr is really helpful. All these crappy articles about AI acting like some sort of nefarious human misdirects the real concerns and is just media fodder for click bait news outlets (which is pretty much all news outlets now). I genuinely think it’s a more news is good news for the AI companies.