Karsten SchmidtMar 14

Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":

"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""

https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md

For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮

Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...

[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!

#AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #NoAI #Agents #Deception

Show threadJoe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉

@toxi there is a belief among some LLM users that if you tell the LLM it is an expert, it will behave like one. There is some evidence to support this belief, which is both funny and annoying, but it leads to some weird superstitions about how much impact it can have and how many times you have to repeat yourself to get it to believe it is an expert.

So, the optimistic read of this is not that it's about deceiving the viewer, but rather deceiving the model into behaving more like an expert.

Mar 14 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadohirMar 15
@swelljoe @toxi
> if you tell the LLM it is an expert, it will behave like one
Yeah, #siliconiac surely is able to emulate Dunning-Kruger effect. It also is able to emulate cruelty and stupidity of the countless masses posting since early aughties. But even that still it is an emulation.
#noai