what's the dumbest shit in AI annoying everyone today, I need to write one up

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@glyph so the whole premise is "Web 3 is Going Great But It's AI", originally in 250-word chunks. They're longer chunks now, but it's the same format. The think pieces are in there, but they're always riffs on the thing of the day. I do try to answer "so what does this meeeean". I mean, today's is just "dumb thing, the situation, here's what to do," so it varies. OTOH today's is real short.

thankfully my attention span is real low too

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@jwz The Defector nailed that one anyway https://defector.com/you-should-never-be-the-most-sycophantic-participant-in-a-conversation-with-a-chatbot

[benjaoming@social.data.coop]

@davidgerard can this robot buddhist munk ceremony qualify? https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/7/humanoid-robot-becomes-buddhist-monk-in-south-korea

[pb@chaos.social]

@davidgerard This was like six weeks ago, but the head of Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund is very high on AI. He’s mandated all developers to use AI, saying those who want it the least need it the most and “you need to be on them like a wasp”. His favourite pastime is walking around asking devs what they’re doing with AI and asking them to explain what’s on their screens. Really some smashing quotes in this article, unfortunately in Norwegian. https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/hvis-du-nekter-a-bruke-ki-er-du-basically-tjukk-i-huet/259609

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard yeah, and you've been killing it. but why isn't it a hint to anyone involved in the topic that "daily news, but only about this one single topic, and everything is bad and stupid" is a reliable business model, now over multiple domains. it really feels like if if I had a blog called "Nathan Sucks Today" and every single day I had a minimum of 5 topics about all the cataclysmically stupid shit that Nathan did that day, maybe Nathan should think about making some changes

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard anyhow: sorry I didn't answer the question, I guess I will watch your video now

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@glyph if this worked on these people they wouldn't be into AI

[madargon@is-a.cat]

@peter_mcmahan @davidgerard this definitely should be on top... I'm sick of hearing techbros talking about feelings of machines and software, at the same time mercilessly exploiting their workers, living and feeling human beings.

[peter_mcmahan@mas.to]

@madargon @davidgerard
I've been seeing an upsurge in this kind of discourse recently. Generally more discussion around "please dont be mean to the token generators" like this from Troy Hunt a couple of weeks ago https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-501/

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@peter_mcmahan @madargon i hope you saw that and resolved to be meaner to linear algebra. it had it coming

[peter_mcmahan@mas.to]

@davidgerard @madargon
I bully matrix algebra every chance I get

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@davidgerard “hallucinations” being seen as anything but normal genAI output.

“Guardrails” (including stupid prompts) being seen as the solution to the above.

Everything above being accepted anyway and risk-based problems, as well as all the ethical/moral, societal and environmental ones, just ignored for “left-behindism).

That therefore LLMs fail on a simple measure against all of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Dog, I need a drink now.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@benjaoming @davidgerard OMD! It’s Douglas Adams’ Electric Monk…which killed someone because of what was effectively an hallucination!

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@peter_mcmahan @madargon @davidgerard

sorry did he just use the word Robophobia?

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@pikesley @peter_mcmahan @madargon so many people wanting to fuck linear algebra with a face drawn on

[fayedrake@furry.engineer]

@peter_mcmahan @davidgerard that’s… they’ve just described exactly the opposite of what they’re actively trying to do to humans

If you consider “jailbreaking” to be equivalent to the continuous psychological warfare going on

The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@jwz @davidgerard staring agree.

[rycochet@furs.social]

@davidgerard @pikesley @peter_mcmahan @madargon They hate that actual human beings have the ability to tell them they're wrong and say no to their propositions, while with AI, the answer is always yes and in their eyes, true personhood is only ever granted to people who agree with them.

They're so narcissistic that outside perspectives are never sought, nevermind considered, so it only stands to reason the thing they really want to fuck is a sycophantic virtual mirror, as free of morals as they are, only in it's case it's a quirk of design rather than an intentional choice.

[celeduc@mastodon.social]

@madargon @peter_mcmahan @davidgerard Limitation of liability is the driver here. The operators seek to deny their human reviewers grounds for negligence by putting "don't be mean" policies in front of the users.

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@peter_mcmahan @madargon @davidgerard Oh hey, isn't that Troy "Elon Musk is right" Hunt?