“It's very obvious to me that the choices that are being made are going to throw many people into poverty [...] they won't be able to get out and go somewhere else, and people who are benefiting from this are going to move on." www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"
Fundamentally misunderstands what “writing a dissertation” means because he fundamentally misunderstands what an original contribution to the knowledge is, and how it comes into being. Showing his own ass.
The headline highlights how cartoonishly evil this all is --- but the body of the story is more interesting, especially the work of the long-time resident who is working to use the deed as leverage to get the long-promised park.
To the journalists on this beat:
1) You don't actually have to treat every bit of drivel that comes out of Anthropic as a news story
2) If it's news because Anthropic is planning a big IPO, you could frame it as about how ridiculous their valuation is given that they are peddling fantasies.
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So Anthropic decided that "let's pause now" was tired and is instead talking about *planning* for a "pause" in the future in case of (lol) self-improving "AI".
... and NPR at least is platforming this nonsense credulously.
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Just finished reading The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social - I recommend that anyone who also feels like there's something creepy and outright weird about AI boosters read this book. It provides a lot of answer to the questions I had.
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Should I listen to an hour of Hinton unhinged ("AI is already conscious") or nah?