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Devdave Dec 19, 2022

Jeffrey Yost Dec 19, 2022

New Essay in INTERFACES!

Automated Trolling: The Case of GPT-4Chan When Artificial Intelligence is as Easy as Writing

By Annette Vee, University of Pittsburgh

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

This article explores what it means to have AI-based text generation technology such as LLMs available to the general public through open code and datasets.

@histodons @sociology @anthropology @politicalscience #artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #data #gender #race #rhetoric #writing #graphics #sts

Interfaces

College of Science and Engineering

Devdave Dec 19, 2022

#writing and #machine_learning - My experiments have been going well and I am moving on to the next phase. In the interim, I have realized that ML models like GPT-3 will have a weird influence on finding your next book. Imagine instead of a web app like Good Reads, you can ask GPT "Will I like this book?" and get an authoritative answer. Would that be a good thing, would it bring out more readers or cull the existing reading population further?

Devdave Dec 14, 2022

Supership 79 Dec 14, 2022

It recently struck me that 27 years ago there was a movie with Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo playing drag queens,and if it came out today, someone would firebomb the theaters it was in. I'm not putting a sensitive warning on this picture because it's not fucking sensitive. its a movie that came out in 1995. things have moved backwards in a terrifying way.

Devdave Dec 9, 2022

nixCraft 🐧Dec 9, 2022

that is why

Devdave Dec 7, 2022

"But it must be lived forwards; Life can only be understood backwards" - attached image is this text, a quote from philosopher & poet Soren Kierkegaard.

Devdave Dec 3, 2022

To put it mildly, I hope Biden keels over dead before the next presidential election because he just gave the younger generations a big middle finger for their prospects of being treated like humans. A couple years of misery due to a rail strike would have paid dividends for making the American oligarchs back off.

Devdave Nov 22, 2022

GovTrack.us Nov 22, 2022

The House Ways and Means Committee first requested former president Trump’s tax returns in early 2019. The Supreme Court just rejected what is the last possible request to prevent those returns from being provided to the committee. There are 40-some days left in the 117th Congress. Will they actually get them? Have time to analyze them? Release any part to the public? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Might have been better to make that request in, say, early 2018 if the goal was to actually do anything with them.