Joe BrockmeierFeb 18

At this point, open-source development itself is being DDoS'ed by LLMs and their human users.

At the risk of being a bit gross: this is the software development version of peeing in the pool. If *one* person does it, it's gross but will probably go unnoticed. However, at this point, it's like having 100 people all lined up on the side of the pool peeing into it in unison. I don't really want to swim in that, do you? And now they've started eyeing the punchbowl and watercoolers too. #AI #AIslop #LLMs

Show threaddavecb 🇨🇦Feb 18
@jzb do we perhaps need an open-source project to create slop-detectors? If they caught even a fraction of the submissions, they'd probably get 99% of the authors. For us to ban.
Show threadJoe BrockmeierFeb 18

@davecb Perhaps. Rather than turning it into another spam-type arms race, though, it would be vastly better if humans would exercise some restraint in their use of such tools.

The fact that humans are unlikely to do so suggests that it is wildly irresponsible it is to keep churning out such tools for mass consumption.

Show threaddavecb 🇨🇦Feb 18
@jzb I agree. Alas, a likely way we stop the churning is also called "the next recession". Last year I de-risked my whole portfolio.
I'd genuinely like to see a fix at the supply end, with everyone shunning the owners of the slop factories, but all I could think of was a way to allow projects to work at the demand end, shunning individual slop-producers (:-()
Show threadJoe BrockmeierFeb 18

@davecb Yeah... I need to find a way to park my 401K funds in something recession-proof. I wish there was a way to just say "pull this out of circulation for a bit and just give me normal savings interest."

401Ks were a great way for capital to force *everyone* to let businesses play games with *everyone else's money* while also letting businesses abandon the practice of pensions.

Sorry - that's a whole different rant than AI slop. I'm also fun at parties.

(That's a lie. I don't go to parties.)

Show threaddavecb 🇨🇦Feb 18
@jzb Does the US have GICs (Guaranteed Investment Certificates)? With only 5 *big* banks in Canada, they're pretty safe unless we have a full-fledged depression.
Show threaddavecb 🇨🇦

@jzb Of course, Scotiabank has US offices, as do the Bank of Montreal and the Toronto-Dominion Bank. The Royal Bank of Canada owns Citibank. That assumes you can smuggle it out of a 401k (:-))

If you can't, see if you can use US certificates of deposit. An American friend just bought a bunch

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