While it's quite fun to say “Butlerian Jihad now!” it’s not actually accurate because despite what idiots and evangelists would have you believe LLMs are not actually reasoning entities and not made in the image of the mind of man.

That doesn’t mean they’re fine though, especially for what people are doing with them. Ed Zitron is right. Ceterum censeo LLMs esse delenda.

#ai #slop #llm #butlerianjihad

@eschaton I think it's apt, they are "in the likeness of a human mind" in an Ecce Homo kind of way. And certainly the "turned their thinking over to machines" and "permitted other men to enslave them" bits are 100% on target.

Jihad tested poorly with the polling audience, though, we're now calling it the Butler Institute for Computing Justice.

@jwz Too late, I now own butlerian-jihad.org
@eschaton you have my sword
@rmi @eschaton And my upper atmosphere EMP device.
@eschaton @jwz surely you mean butlerian-jihad.ai?
@fazalmajid @jwz I’m not wiling to pay $200/year for a domain that would itself be a mark against the cause.

@eschaton @jwz perhaps I should have added /s

Anguilla (home of .ai) would be a good place to escape from Skynet, but I doubt any of those excessive registration fees actually benefit the impoverished residents there.

@fazalmajid @eschaton I guess Tuvalu (.tv) hasn't *quite* sunk yet either. I'm sure they're rolling in that "pivot to video" money.
@jwz @eschaton I used to own majid.fm because FM are my initials, but it was too expensive and I dropped it. In any case FM radio is being replaced by DAB in most of the world outside the US.
@eschaton oh my god. Can I have [email protected], as a forward to [email protected], pretty please?