The Semiotics of Synthetic Media: Production and Meaning in Digital Plastic

https://leonfurze.com/2024/08/07/the-semiotics-of-synthetic-media-production-and-meaning-in-digital-plastic/

Just musing the on the current #generativeAI shenanigans and the #FSF.

Im more than a bit of a Stallman detractor these days. BUT having followed him for a long time; its almost surprising he hasn't put up a philosophical paper on generative AI on https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html already. OR that the GPLv3 faq hasn't been extended with their notions of how the GPLv3 does or does-not interact with LLM training data, and the resulting LLM. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

These things are pressing on the #FLOSS community hard, some leadership is needed. #GNU #LLM #Eliza #StochasticParrots #RMS

"Using #AI to check the output of AI for errors is a method that is historically prone to errors"

No shit, Sherlock.

#LLMs
#StochasticParrots

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

Let me get this straight:

• They're running war simulations using the current LLM bots (that are already embedded in real-life military systems).
• The LLM bots keep choosing to use nukes.
• The humans' reaction is not "uninstall app".

All the people saying that before working on Artificial Intelligence we should have worked on Natural Intelligence are being proved right.

Welcome to the Great Filter, everyone.

#llms #StochasticParrots

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @blog

#StochasticParrots
#LLMs

Acting ethically in an imperfect world
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

Whenever I read about a case of AI Psychosis wherein someone mistook a LLM chatbot for a self-aware entity, or folks talk about having emotional affairs, or relationships with LLM chatbots. I think about this still from the BBC TV mini series adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from 1981.

It's an ad from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

#AI #GenerativeAI #llm #StochasticParrots #HitchhikersGuide #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #H2G2 #HHGTTG

There is something perverse about using generative AI likely trained on stolen data, to automate your DMCA copyright infringement takedown requests. #AI #GenerativeAI #llm #StochasticParrots #Eliza

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/microsofts-ai-powered-copyright-bots-fucked-up-and-got-an-innocent-game-delisted-from-steam/