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- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
MasterCard’s and Valve’s statements seems to point at Stripe and PayPal as the ones who folded to the pressure. They then cited MasterCard’s rules to back up their change in policy.
MasterCard now clarifying that the payment processors are over-interpreting the rules and anything legal is ok seems a very good thing here. Valve should be able to go back to Stripe and PayPal with this and say: “Hey, you’ve misunderstood the rules you are quoting; MasterCard themselves say anything legal is ok, and that is the exact policy we’ve been using!”
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 1 week ago:
Also id probably lose 4 of these before giving up outright.
You buy them in bags of 20ish, and keep buying them until you have established an equilibrium in your home where there always are a few around to put on new bags. I’m not joking.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 1 week ago:
I recently discovered that recent versions of the built-in photo apps on Android flat out refuses to do this. The UI for removing location info is the, but it is intentionally blocked if the exif info was added automatically by GPS (i.e., it only works if you manually have set a location). It seems so weird, and outright evil, to block one of the key ways for people to stay safe.
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 2 weeks ago:
The only reason this is “click bait” is because someone chose to do this, rather than their own mental instability bringing this out organically.
This is my point. The case we are discussing now isn’t noteworthy, because someone doing it deliberately is equally “impressive” as writing out a disturbing sentence in MS Paint. One cannot create a useful “answer engine” without it being capable of producing something weird/provoking/offensive out of context; no more than one can create a useful drawing program that blocks out all offensive content. Nor is it a worthwhile goal.
The cases to care about are those where the LLM takes a perfectly reasonable conversation off the rails. Clickbait like the one in the OP is actually harmful in that they drown out such real cases, and is therefore deserving of ridicule.
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 2 weeks ago:
Does the marketing matter when the reason for the offending output is that the user spent significant deliberate effort in coaxing the LLM to output what it did? It still seems like MS Paint with extra steps to me.
I get not wanting LLMs to unprompted output “offensive content”. Just like it would be noteworthy if “Clear canvas” in MS Paint sometimes yielded a violent bloody photograph. But, that isn’t what is going on in OPs clickbait.
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 2 weeks ago:
And, the thing is, LLMs are quite well protected. Look what I got MS Paint to say with almost no effort! Don’t get me started on plain pen and paper! Which we put in the hands of TODDLERS!
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 weeks ago:
No shade on people trying to make sustainable choices, but if the solution to the climate crisis is us trusting everyone to “get with the program” and pick the right choice; while unsustainable alternatives sit right there beside them at lower prices, then we are truly doomed.
What the companies behind these foods and products don’t want to talk about is that to get anywhere we have to target them. It shouldn’t be a controversial standpoint that: (i) all products need to cover their true full environmental and sustainability costs, with the money going back into investments into the environment counteracting the negative impacts; (ii) we need to regulate, regulate, and regulate how companies are allowed to interact with the environment and society, and these limits must apply world-wide. There needs to be careful follow-up on that these rules are followed: with consequences for individuals that take the decisions to break them AND “death sentences” (i.e. complete disbandment) for whole companies that repeatedly oversteps.
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 2 months ago:
I very much understand wanting to have a say against our data being freely harvested for AI training. But this article’s call for a general opt-out of interacting with AI seems a bit regressive. Many aspects of this and other discussions about the “AI revolution” remind me about the Mitchell and Web skit on the start of the bronze age: youtu.be/nyu4u3VZYaQ
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 9 months ago:
I made this the other day.Image
