AI Scientists Think There’s A Monster Inside ChatGPT

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#H.P.Lovecraft’s horror novel, #AtTheMountainsofMadness, describes how #shoggoths were created millions of years ago, as the formless slaves of the alien #OldOnes … and the meme’s implied political lesson is that #LLMs too may be untrustworthy servants …” www.programmablemutter.com/p/shoggoths-...

Shoggoths amongst us
Shoggoths amongst us

What Lovecraft's monsters _actually_ tell us about Large Language Models

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Pluralistic: Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined (01 Apr 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/

Pluralistic: Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined (01 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Les #shoggoths, une fois cuits et épluchés ils font moins les marioles !

@selzero They are called #Shoggoths. No, we don't want to know what they are doing with them. We <i>really</i> don''t want to know.

#Shoggoth #Dagon #ElderThings #Cthulhu #Lovecraft

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#Shoggoths #ShoggothsCare #YoureWelcome

Red and blue shoggoths. The red ones are all from @FenrisGames and the blue ones are from RAFM and Grenadier I think… (Grenadier still in production via Mirliton) #shoggoth #shoggoths #miniatures #miniaturepainting #mirliton #cthulhu #callofcthulhu #callofchthulhurpg

"LLMs – and many other applications of machine learning – are far more like bureaucracies and markets than putative forms of posthuman intelligence."

#LLMs #AI #shoggoths

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/07/03/shoggoths-amongst-us/

Shoggoths amongst us

It’s over a week since the Economist put up my and Cosma Shalizi’s piece on shoggoths and machine learning, so I think it’s fair game to provide an extended remix of the argument (which also repurp…

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