Gorro_Rojo @gorro_rojo@qoto.org

In a world where a bit of math can pass as human on the internet, we are obliged to be more unpredictable, more chaotic.

Be the language model failure mode you want to see in the taco.

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Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!

Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.

Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace

If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.

Apropos everything, I’m reminded of this from Douglas Adams:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

It feels unstoppable.

Big companies train expensive computers on your content with an explicit goal of not having to credit you, link to you, or even tell you. So search engines don't become a portal to the wider web, they become the one and only place you need to go, and monetize how they please.

It's all packaged up so that people see it and use it and go "well boy howdy that's awful neat". And it is neat. Just neat enough that no criticism of it will ever matter or effect the trajectory.

As someone who has worked for years to eradicate misinformation in the history of abandoned places (and is thus aware of the already formidable stream of garbage writing surrounding them), it's fun to contemplate the absolute nosedive we're about to do into inaccurate information on every single subject as AI becomes the generative method for creating content.

"Fun."

✨ new tech bingo ✨

Why are ethics questions always like:
"is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?"

And not:
"is it ethical to sell bread when families are starving?"

If you are feeling stressed, just remember to INEX HAHA LELE.

society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.

tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?

Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.

For me these TEN reasons combined were enough to stop using Twitter, not in order of importance (writing this down so that I can always link this post whenever someone asks the question "Why did you stop using Twitter?"):

1. Annoying ads and tracking (you're the product)
2. Hate-boosting algorithms
3. Hostile users
4. Immoral, hate-breeding, immature billionaire as an owner, worse than Trump because now he can say anything without limits
5. "Free speech", I mean not free speech. Users get banned mentioning Musk or Mastodon
6. Features breaking down
7. New useless inaccessible "features"
8. There is a better, free and open source alternative available (Mastodon)
9. Un-ethics. Musk fired accessibility and human rights team and is clearly stated he (=Twitter) does not care about minorities
10. Many good folks I followed already left (in fact about 700 of them based on the decrease in my follower-count)

Knowing this, why would I want to continue using Twitter? For me the 7K followers are not the reason big enough for me to stay. There's no life. There's no way I'm going to continue using that non-functional hate-machinery.

It's bad even if it was only used for good things knowing what it's based on. #ElonMusk #Twitter

Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected them to the Internet.

This was a clue and we just didn't listen.

Please. I’m begging you. Not every tutorial needs to be a video.

GOOD IDEA: This may look like a transit map, but it’s actually a map of typical walking times & distances in the walkable, car-free Spanish city of #Pontevedra. A simple, clever idea that every city working to be more walkable should steal.

#walkablecities #cities #urbanism #walking

Profound boredom is the root of all innovation. This paper covers it well, but every substantive project I worked on started offline with limited technical resources and lots of time to kill (metasploit, recog, runzero): https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/social-media-may-prevent-users-from-reaping-creative-rewards-of-profound-boredom-new-research/

Offline doesn't mean no computing, just lack of boredome-drive-page-reloading. So erm, if you seeing this, drop into offline mode, find a park, and fidget until you find something all-engrossing to sink your time into.

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figured I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.