And the reason this is even tolerated is only because most people don’t understand how LLMs work. Like politicians and their “kill switch” idea if an AI “goes rogure” for example. That there’s like one persistent Claude entity, living in a big room at Anthropic HQ remembering and learning things from all the users it interacts with… Of course it’s not that, it’s an instance of a program that launches and runs the same function every time on whatever inputs it is fed. Sometimes it is set up to feed back old inputs each time so it acts like it has some memory of what your instance previously did. Training a model is sort of like creating a hologram and prompting it is sort of like taking a photo of the hologram from a certain angle.

They could of course train the next version of the model on everyone’s prompts to the previous version- and probably are. But that’s in no way necessary, and is already sort of a desparation move when they’re running out of input text.

If the trade secrets / PII you’re foolishly sharing with it are getting leaked that’s not an accidental, inevitable consequence of how AI works. It’s because the company hosting the AI is greedily harvesting and storing all your inputs, for no other reason than you agreed it could in the TOS you didn’t read, and then later oopsie they failed to secure it because they don’t really care and know no one will hold them accountable. Yor prompt is the same as any other text you sent in an input form to any website, the company has it and can decide to only use it for what it has to- or for everything it can get away with.

They have to at least have a plausible path to profitability. The serious investors have known for some time there isn’t one with AI. Just because the AI companies will never be profitable long term doesn’t mean there is no reason to invest in them short term. That’s what a speculative bubble is. Everyone believes the line will keep going up long enough for them to turn around and sell to a greater fool in the near future. And for the most part they’re right. The ultimate bag-holder ends up being the middle class worker and their auto-assigned 401k portfolio.

Dark triad personality traits

Trade for Alberta?

It’s an old-fashioned word, like ‘groceries’.

Aaaaaaagh- ! thump thump thump thump

Jimmy was ejected from the U-Haul.

. . .

Jimmy was not an imposter.

. . .

2 imposters remain.

Protease?

With every sci-fi story that’s been written incorporated into its training data, an LLM chatbot roleplaying an ‘AI’ persona is going to mindlessly auto-complete the most likely next thing that happens right after humans hand over control of the important dangerous thing to AI and trust it to make life-and-death decisions. It doesn’t have to be actually intelligent to be dangerous, it just has to be more intelligent than the people who think it is intelligent- and in my opinion it’s already there.

I wish that were my reaction to this. Instead, it’s a “DUH. No shit.”

That’s why I decided to build my first online multi-player game as an offline single-player game, and just figure out how to add the networking stuff when everything else is done- an architectural choice I definitely won’t come to regret later…

We already did. The ‘human and AI’ section is dbzer0, the human only contents and posts section is the rest of the fediverse, and the mainly-AI section is the entire publicly traded corpo / normie internet, which is the same thing as the ‘dead internet’ but hasn’t quite realized it yet.