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Emily 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.
LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.
In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.
But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.
If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
David Gerardhttps://newstechnica.com/2012/10/30/chuck-norris-facts-updated/
Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked gay marriage, and fell flat on his ass.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He’s worrying about gay marriage.
Chuck Norris’ tears cure gay marriage. Too bad for him he never cries.
There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only the quivering fear of gay marriage.
Chuck Norris doesn’t do pushups — he might accidentally get gay-married.
When Chuck Norris goes to sleep every night, he would check his closet for gay marriage, if he had a closet.
Chuck Norris does not go opposing gay marriage, because the word “opposing” implies the possibility of failure. Chuck Norris already failed to stop gay marriage.
Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil to stop gay marriage. When the deal had been done, the devil gay-married him.
If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. Tell him how *fabulous* gay marriage is.
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Scary AustinThe internet has an official name for the new #Meta stalker glasses: pervert glasses!
Noah KAl Sweigart:
I never connect my appliances (e.g. TV) to wifi. But how do I know it's not attempting to find open wifi and the connecting to those? What happens when appliances can connect to cell data whether we want them to or not?
Clarissa | making Enigma HeartMaybe I'm weird, but there shouldn't be input lag in a text editor