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same energy as “your request could not be processed due to the following error: Success”

absolutely!

I do have a question from the Mastodon side of the Fediverse. Is there a cleaner way I can share links to Lemmy communities?

I’ll do a little bit of experimentation tonight on our test instance and see if there’s a cleaner way to do link-only posts from mastodon! this’ll kill two birds with one stone for me — I needed to run some federation tests as part of an infrastructure upgrade I’m looking to deploy to our main instance. unfortunately, the federation between Lemmy and Mastodon is very limited and janky in a lot of ways so there might not be a cleaner way to do it, but the thread you created looks good on our end.

also, I can’t speak to how the experience for Blind users would be in any of the Lemmy apps or its web frontend, but if any of them end up being a more convenient way to interact with our posts, we can definitely get you set up with an account on our instance if desired.

If you want my Javascript prompt injection I made, DM me because I don’t wanna give LLM developers easy ways to put up input and output guardrails against my prompt injection.

definitely! I will reach out on Mastodon when I get the chance; I don’t remember if Lemmy even attempts to federate DMs between us and Mastodon, but I don’t trust it to do it well if it does.

Genuine question.

So rude, you didn’t answer my question at all.

yeah find me one single instance of someone doing this “genuine question” shit that doesn’t result in the most bad faith interpretation possible of the answers they get

If I’m missing something obvious I’d love it if you told me.

• most security vulnerabilities look like they cause the targeted program to spew gibberish, until they’re crafted into a more targeted attack
• it’s likely that gibberish is the LLM’s training data, where companies are increasingly being encouraged to store sensitive data
• there’s also a trivial resource exhaustion attack where you have one or more LLMs spew garbage until they’ve either exhausted their paid-for allocation of tokens or cost their hosting organization a relative fuckload of cash
• either you knew all of the above already and just came here to be a shithead, or you’re the type of shithead who doesn’t know fuck about computer security but still likes to argue about it
• fuck off

I’m kind of jealous of how readable and usable Robert’s site is compared with a typical React SPA with a tiny enforced font size and awful color contrast and jank everywhere — like the Lemmy frontend, for example

this is an excellent post! I really like the examples you’ve given of how to actively resist the discriminatory systems enabled by LLMs, alongside personal examples of how those systems have negatively impacted Blind and marginalized folks. it’s very rare to get this kind of perspective on LLMs and generative AI, and it’s very much appreciated.

this quote towards the end of the post stood out in particular:

(I’m not sure how the quote will be represented by the flawed ActivityPub bridge from Lemmy to Mastodon and then from Mastodon to a screen reader, so I’ll note that the quote starts here:)

To the bafflement of tech people everywhere, books will still be popular even though they work on imaginations and not code. Even though tech people will still not understand books, I, along with others, will still be here providing art because it’s our way of speaking to the world. What’s even better is that people will continue to appreciate and enjoy art instead of morning the shattering of LLM servers because, well, people are people and people like art. I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe you should learn to art and people instead of code.

(end quote)

this says so much about the extreme lack of imagination we’ve seen among LLM and generative AI boosters; there’s a fundamental flaw in the way they conceptualize and engage with creative work. we’ve seen again and again how those AI boosters will try to appropriate the style and trappings of especially science fiction while demonstrating barely a surface-level understanding of the work — see also our recent posts on awful.systems about how poorly some rather loud voices hyping AI understand Iain M Banks’ Culture novels

it’s that time in every pet owner’s life where your pet just saunters up to you with this look on their face and you’re like “what did you do. marc! whatever it is spit it out. Marc Andreessen! no you come here and spit it out right now”

An AI-driven nagbot will surely fix these systemic issues — Huffington specifically claims the bot will “address growing health inequities” — and revolutionize healthcare, because “behavior change can be a miracle drug, both for preventing disease and for optimizing the treatment of disease.”

fuck off Arianna. there’s so many life-altering, commonplace diseases that behavioral changes don’t do fuck all for, and meanwhile some of the most beneficial behavioral therapy you can do is fucking impossible to get cause insurance won’t cover it in any achievable form. all this horseshit does is, as usual, shift the blame for beyond inadequate healthcare from a thoroughly broken system to the people suffering, because they supposedly didn’t try hard enough to change their behavior and get better.

it’s absolutely the same fash assholes who claim Bioshock as an expression of rather than a scathing parody of their awful fucking objectivist worldview, and have spent decades normalizing doing the exact same shit that got Andrew Ryan’s stupid fucking head caved in with a golf club

I’m puzzled, though, by the belief that hunters are more likely to make overpriced, impulse purchases of ammo than mass shooters. I’m even less inclined to buy that than ammo from a vending machine.

hunters and chuds are the two demographics most likely to waste their money on expensive ammo that supposedly kills quicker, usually due to some patented hydrostatic horseshit that doesn’t work (but they paid a former FBI agent to claim it does). there’s little chance this stupid fucking unguarded box supposedly secured by AI will have anything that expensive in it though.

speaking of chuds:

You do know that murder is only illegal killing, right?

Me, I only perform legal killings, so I can take out an equity loan and buy the entire machine out! Yay!

It’s funny though, the idea of someone planning on cooking off a few hundred rounds, obtaining a rifle and magazines, getting all dressed up to go and then, “damn, I forgot to load any of these, better stop at the piggly wiggly and get ammo, or no mass mayhem for me!”

Okay, the mayhem and killing part isn’t funny, but the idea that a mass shooter wild use one of these machines is.

coming in here fucking salivating over the idea of people getting killed with guns (but oops tee hee it’s ok if you pretend it’s a shitty joke every time) was a fucking mistake if you’re presenting as a reasonable gun owner, and it’s painfully obvious this is the schtick you use to start fucking exhausting internet debates with equally fucking exhausting neoliberals. spare me that bullshit.

To this end, Tom Loverro at IVP has declared a “Great Reawakening” in AI. “The AI train is leaving the station & you need to be on it,” he tweeted.

god the tone of techfash grifting gets so much worse when the pretense of bitcoin libertarianism is cast off

nah, there’s nothing creepier than giving some shithead the common courtesy of checking their post history to see if they’re somehow like this all the time or if they’re just having a particularly bad night

gonna be honest, I didn’t give this one that common courtesy cause once they get to the stage where they creepjacket other posters for looking at their previous terrible posts, whatever Reddit has done to their brain is severe and irreversible

I want to point out that this interminable motherfucker introduced themselves as someone who supposedly does creative writing