@SRAZKVT All or nothing thinking resulted in much harm during the French Revolution.
Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was guillotined and his work discredited due to the king's sponsorship. This set back biology/genetics many decades. Carl Linnaeus' tree based system for classifying species was adopted, as it was free of the aristocracy. You likely learned it in school; it's bad/wrong.
Linnaeus' system was a seminal work in race "science"; Buffon had no patience for that shit!
@thomasfuchs I think this is the double edged sword of big tech adoption... and popular adoption. You get huge technical wins, but now interests that don't agree with the mission, or even understand it, get a say.
What do you do? Excluding those interests is the same as saying you want the benefits of FOSS to only accrue to a select few.
FOSS's limits are defined by the limits on the freedoms afforded to the societies it exists in. If we won't protect those freedoms, we don't deserve them.
I am having such a rough time with a cough I picked up at my physical rehab 2 weeks ago. I coughed so hard I had my lats go into spasm 2 days ago. Ribs still ache.
Had a slow continuous nose bleed; almost gone.
I am resting & eating constantly. I was also prescribed a long acting inhaler... but I welcome suggestions. I breathe fine when not coughing.
Complete productivity annihilation.
Assuming it's covid. Last time was bad too; different symptoms. Not sweating 10 litres a day, this time.
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@thomasfuchs their are tons of axiomatic systems in business and politics too! The difference is:
- they start with an assertion which encompasses an entire field of thought
- never check to see if its implications function in practice
- then repeatedly work backwards from their assertions to claim everyone else is wrong
- and finally the world economy fails to land a gnarly back flip before they move onto a new set of axioms!
(Only kind of joking)
@dave I've only seen a lesser version of this; people will pick targets in the replies to a popular toot, @ only the person they want to pester, while boosting the parent post as a signal to their followers that the waters are ripe for trolling.
You'll find their replies are directly and abrasively opposed to anyone that agrees with the original post, yet they boost that while never @'ing OP.
Thanks for informing me about this. It is worse than what I've seen. I will think about this.
@stux I saw one that was very curious. It was a Markov chain bot. (Not an LLM, definitely old school Markov chains). It was also followed by another bot.
While the report was processing, it started spamming news stories, about 10 times an hour. Looked like it was probably paid to flood timelines with propaganda?
I think you guys need more auto flagging tools, and maybe a stricter admission process. Looked to me like state funded media disinfo. They are going to have more human hours than you.
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