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From the replies, a perfect post: ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

I need a cigarette after reading that

I don’t think he was harsh enough.

"Grifters...wield the omnitool that they self-aggrandizingly call 'politics'. That is to say, it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is *highly transferable*."

"who does not have any skill that you can identify other than talking very fast and increasing headcount." I have met this executive, many times. Once tried to sell my town a boy's band.

Great piece. Particularly liked this bit…

Oh, I hate the tone of that post and a million like it.

I mean...https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

*CoPilot pops up* “I don’t remember asking you a goddamn thing”

“Will you two stop saying ‘A.I.’ so much??”

"We should have shotguns for this kind of deal." "How many fingers up there?" "Twelve or thirteen on each hand." "We should have fuckin' shotguns."

I've started saying "Lying Machines" instead.

I like "Bullshit Engines": www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpM...

On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other AI. Dr. Williams.www.youtube.com Forum for Law Ethics and Society (FiLES). Dr. Williams takes a deep dive into the propensity for GPT style AIs to not merely present falsehoods but to perpetuate bias, stereotypes, and other BS as if it was legitimate. @SonomaStatePhilosophy

this is a good one. Although, they don't actually think, so can they actually lie? lol

The NYT might call them "Untruth Machines".

AI. AI. AI.

AI AI AIOK

I was on help chat. Told me it was switching to a live agent. Lol, no it was not. Define live agent.

me, at a conference recently, to a senior colleague

WHAT DOES ALLEN IVERSON LOOK LIKE

Hey, good news. With AI techbros actually CAN make a fake Sam Jackson say that instead. Hahaha, I hate this timeline.

I feel this meme deeply.

AI.

Ayyyy I need a beer

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