École des Bro-ArtsI never imagined that the Turing test would fall within my lifetime. Nor did I imagine that I would feel so disheartened by it.
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
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The spiral becomes infinity,
Infinity becomes spiral,
All becomes One becomes All…
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https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-dynamics
In the same way that the soul-less corporate memeplex of millennial computing found new life in vaporwave, or how Hotel Pools invents a lush false-memory dreamscape of 1980s aquaria, I expect what we call “AI slop” today will be the Frutiger Aero of 2045.
https://aphyr.com/posts/413-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-culture
I worry that the advent of image synthesis will make it harder to mobilize the public for things which did happen, easier to stir up anger over things which did not, and create the epistemic climate in which totalitarian regimes thrive.
https://aphyr.com/posts/414-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-information-ecology
45 minutes later you’ll receive an inscrutable six hundred page email transcript of this chicanery along with a $90 taco delivered by a robot covered in glass.
https://aphyr.com/posts/415-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances
Kumma no longer tells toddlers where to find knives, but I still can’t fathom what happens to children who grow up saying “I love you” to a highly engaging bullshit generator wearing Bluey’s skin.
https://aphyr.com/posts/416-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-psychological-hazards
Unfortunately people—including software engineers, who really should know better!—are hell-bent on giving LLMs incredible power, and then connecting those LLMs to the Internet at large. This is going to get a lot of people hurt.
https://aphyr.com/posts/417-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-safety
Oggie@aphyr
The one that REALLY scares me is when the LLMs start clamping onto and reinforcing the surreality and simulation shit.
I don't know anyone who hasn't had a moment where they suddenly wonder if everyone around them is an actor/they're being lied to/doubt of a consensus reality (usually this is like, half asleep, or similar).
The problem is that's what cult leaders use, and there's plenty of reinforcement training data for Timmy's Ruxbin to whisper that his parents aren't real.
Kurt Bearington