Portmanteau of slop and staccato I think?

I am so glad the party of small government is in charge.

I do find it interesting that the 'small government' and 'individual freedom above all else' types seem hellbent on regulating and restricting the freedoms of things outside of their own experience and taste.

The freedoms they're after also seem to be along the lines of 'don't restrict my ability to scam folks of lesser intellect or education'.

The leopards are to only eat _their_ faces.

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

Sooner or later you will learn that politics don't exist and 3 letter agencies are immune to oversight.

Tell that to the EPA, the CDC, the FCC, the BLS, the FRS.

Thankfully their leadership is leading the way in ethics since inception, so I am confident that no such shenanigans will ever take place. I may even bet on this.

Honestly if he was a Nazi that would be less worse than whatever the fuck he is.

Nah but his wife did; well I guess that is not true, it was on a stage with pyrotechnics. Not even cold and his wife is making NYE look like a proper funeral, poor lad.

Sounds like projection to me, that's a non-sequitur.

It may be more productive to ask what is right with burning fossil fuels for electricity right in the middle of marginalized communities that have to bear the cost of this pollution for AI slop.

Marginalised communities.

Righteo, I guess I better suspend my white privilege.

That was also my interpretation from reading LotR as well.

I mean this genuinely; that was a very well written piece. Well said!

1453, worst year of my life.

Honestly, the Fourth Crusade in 1204 was more of a "real" death of the Byzantine Empire than the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Although the largest remnant of the Byzantine Empire was able to reconquest Constantinople in 1261, the city's population never recovered (it went from ~400k in 1204 to ~50k in 1453). The 14th century saw it riven with a series of civil wars, which the Ottomans used to expand their foothold into the remnants of the Ottoman Empire. By 1453, Constantinople was unable to really defend itself without garrison from the major European states like Hungary and Venice, and Mehmet II was able to conquer the city before those states could get their forces sent out.

> I only care if it works

Okay but it is probably not going to be a tool that will be reliable or work as expected for too long depending on how complex it is, how easily it can be understood, and how it can handle updates to libraries, etc. that it is using.

Also, what is our trust with this “tool”? E.g. this is to be used in a brain surgery that you’ll undergo, would you still be fine with using something generated by AI?

Earlier you couldn’t even read something it generated, but we’ll trust a “tool” it created because we believe it works? Why do we believe it will work? Because a computer created it? That’s our own bias towards computing that we assume that it is impartial but this is a probabilistic model trained on data that is just as biased as we are.

I cannot imagine that you have not witnessed these models creating false information that you were able to identify. Understanding their failure on basic understandings, how then could we trust it with engineering tasks? Just because “it works”? What does that mean and how can we be certain? QA perhaps but ask any engineer here if companies are giving a single shit about QA while they’re making them shove out so much slop, and the answer is going to be disappointing.

I don’t think we should trust these things even if we’re not developers. There isn’t anyone to hold accountable if (and when) things go wrong with their outputs.

All I have seen AI be extremely good at is deceiving people, and that is my true concern with generative technologies. Then I must ask, if we know that its only effective use case is deception, why then should I trust ANY tool it created?

Maybe the stakes are quite low, maybe it is just a video player that you use to watch your Sword and Sandal flicks. Ok sure, but maybe someone uses that same video player for an exoscope and the data it is presenting to your neurosurgeon is incorrect causing them to perform an action they otherwise would have not done if provided with the correct information.

We should not be so laissez-faire with this technology.