Mastodawn

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116229013687072877

Unsurprisingly, from the first sentence it's a lie:

"In the five years since Anthropic began, AI progress has moved incredibly quickly."

No, actually it hasn't. We're still using transformers, developed in late 2017; in fact, we're **hopelessly dependent upon them with nothing else in sight.**

Progress has stalled, despite endless hype. For example, where are those "agents?" Where are they? Can someone, anyone point to a successful, profitable agent? Anyone?

This is all such a terrible joke.

poritzj 3d ago

Jonathan Schofield Sep 11, 2025

There was an old country that swallowed some wood;
We should recall it had loads of wood!
It swallowed the wood to catch the coal,
It swallowed the coal to catch the steel,
It swallowed the steel to catch the oil,
It swallowed the oil to catch more coal,
It swallowed more coal to create The Cloud,
That squiggled and jiggled and tickled its crowds.

It swallowed The Cloud to catch AI;
I don’t know why it swallowed AI – perhaps it’ll die

#energyTransition

poritzj 3d ago

[object Object]6d ago

“I’m just so exhausted by both sides of the AI argument” imagine being the kind of piss baby that sees a mass of people who are righteously furious at a system designed from the top down to fuck them over, and decides the anger is just as much of a problem as the exploitation

poritzj 6d ago

tante 6d ago

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

poritzj Feb 7

emptywheel Feb 7

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poritzj Jan 22

The net says today's min temp here will be 4F and the current temp is 3F. That happens sometimes, and I used to wonder why they didn't update the prediction, but recently I think it's extreme weather forecast honesty:
we have this model;
it produces outputs;
sometimes they correspond with reality; sometimes not;
but we wouldn't want to pretend that the model is anything other than just a model.

I think you can see where I'm going with this: if only those fecking LLM pushers would be as honest!

poritzj Jan 12

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mcc Jan 12

I'll go further: If your code makes use of "AI" code generators, you shouldn't be describing it as "open source". Imagine a source-available game mod of Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time made by forking code stolen from Nintendo servers. That wouldn't actually be "open source".

OSS/Libre/Free Software is a project to build a commons based on consensual collaboration. You can't claim those labels when your project has, via "AI" scraping, contributors who are unknown, uncredited, and unconsenting.

poritzj Jan 7

ana veronica

Jan 6

ai slop is the aesthetics of fascism and the revolution has no use for it

poritzj Jan 5

jonny (good kind)Jan 5

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032

keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different character archetypes wrapped by a (n assemblage of) IDE and CLI tools.

the "skill issue" FOMO trap is just a trap and the question was never "whether they work or not" but rather "how they reconfigure the dynamics of informational power by dramatically consolidating it in the owners of informational capital."

Also on Mastodon and very much worth a follow:

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115742104378939410

David Revoy (@[email protected])

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