Notices by json web tokin' (est@social.emily.news), page 4

I really want to share that some friends earlier tonight explained to me how and why GPT-like generative text LLMs are fundamentally unethical, so now I finally feel like I get (and share) the animus. I just didn't really put all the facts together before.

Now my point of view is that the models' basis in drawing in the entire content of the internet (more or less) extracts the collective creative labor of billions, which is then blended up and repackaged as a technological innovation, in order to launder the source of this labor and thereby extract its value efficiently.

Even models used by Dolly v2 ultimately derive from earlier GPT models of questionable provenance. The entire field is built on the fruit of the same poisonous tree.

@thomasfuchs race condition if you say it three times TOO fast

since the source code for mastodon is hosted within an org of the same name, the quickest way for me to get to the repo in Safari is to type "mastodon/mastodon" like I'm preparing to summon up Rails-app Beetlejuice

Somehow made it all the way up to today without realizing SVG supported animation.

@NireBryce @mcc @seldo it's like that loop where "facts" get made up on Wikipedia, then someone uses it in an article, then the article becomes the source for that "fact."

but they've cut out the Wikipedia part.

@seldo @mcc it is the job of a news org to take those facts and contextualize them (why is this important? what led to this? what may come next? why should I care?), so there is a LITTLE wiggle room there for people to actually write things.

"I known it's an old thread, but if you're still alive, I have a very specific question."

@kf how loud is it on the lowest setting?

@kf also don't you have an apple watch now? you can just take direct, objective dB measurements

@kf okay cool well sounds like it's audible at least

@kf christ almighty

i would die

Actually I think I am over "ally" as a concept and as a word. There should not be a special label or category for "people who are not bigoted toward me." That should just be the default expectation for a person.

I've decided that the Diablo IV game is upsettingly nice.

imagine your parents taught you some kinda absurd meme fact starting when you were one year old.

like imagine they told you that humans can lay eggs if they just try hard enough. and just growing up thinking that. technically speaking, it COULD be true (maybe nobody's tried hard enough), so it's not like there's some point you would reach that would definitely be like "oh yeah this is incorrect"

anyway gender is a meme

I should probably change back my display name if I want to be taken seriously

so I won't

@thomasfuchs TNG basically slaps

@thomasfuchs the year is 2023. VR still sucks.

@thomasfuchs heyyyy this is from Portland! (of which Beaverton is a suburb)

My Mastodon instance upgraded to 4.1.1 automatically this a.m., and now it seems like it’s borked. Whoops.

@thomasfuchs my guy i am 30 or 40 years old and i do not need this