maol

joined 2 years ago
[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's term time again and I'm back in college. One professor has laid out his AI policy: you should not use an AI (presumably Chat GPT) to write your assignment, but you can use an AI to proofread your assignment. This must be mentioned in the acknowledgements. He said in class that in his experience AI does not produce good results and that when asked to write about his particular field it produces work with a lot of mistakes.

Me, I'm just wondering how you can tell the difference between material generated by AI then edited by a human, and material written by a human then edited by an AI.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

The people of Muskogee will have their revenge on Jack Dorsey

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A shame. Seems like they were clearly inspired by it .... I guess you can't copyright a vibe.

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hope Toni Basil and the Ting Tings get big royalty cheques.

[–] maol@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"Isn't this a racist thing to say? Not according to Hitler!"

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

Only got a paragraph in because of the cheerful citation of aporia (the big Nazi website)

I love how he goes on and on about how it actually totally makes sense for the average IQ in Malawi to be 60 because most people don't graduate school, ignoring that Lynn's methodology wasn't up to any basic standard

And by love I mean I fucking hate it

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I read it in high school. Iirc, the main character in 1984 deeply hates a woman he works with and his violent fantasies about her are tied up in his desire to rebel against the regime. He later overcomes his desire to commit violence against her by having sex with her. His contempt for her fairly leapt off the page when I read it. I'm sure it's arguable what Orwell meant or intended.

In another scene, the middle-class protagonists watch a working-class woman hanging out washing and tell themselves that if there was any hope for freedom, it lay in "the proles" (members of the mass underclass, like that woman). But the way they look at her and talk about her is dehumanizing.

It's probably easier to just read 1984 yourself and make up your own mind. it's not a very long book.

[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Eurgh. I'm now feeling angry at the thought of someone who is doing a degree in global health but gets persuaded that AI safety is more important.

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't this just an economic move dressed up as an ideological one?

If only all those sneaker companies had thought to say they had to move their factories from America to Chinese sweatshops because American workers were too woke.

 

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

 

Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

view more: next ›