But as long as it didn't affect binary-conforming cishets, nobody was interested in investigating the phenomenon.

Moral: there are idiots everywhere and some of them are right bastards.

Many are highly intelligent, even world-class in their field; yet don't have an iota of social or emotional intelligence to tell that they're being manipulated.

@glyph

But once you actually know about how these things work and solve problems it becomes somehow more insane that they work the way they do and the whole industry thought “this is fine, this is the technology’s final form”.

It’s so very half baked.

I look forward to a time when hopefully LLMs are a cute novelty for curious nerds in 10-15 years. Making your own is fun.

Production models generally run at a T≈0.7 which essentially does stochastic sampling to produce “creativity” or “variation” which can provide the illusion of depth e.g. if the model has a capability in its logits it may surface it given another run through as long as T is not 0.

I’m not saying this to argue, but because this misconception makes it even worse.

Regardless of what the guy chose to do, read the license: he owes you nothing and yeah, you’re free to criticize, but if you don’t agree with him you’re also free to fork and maintain the code yourself.

Harassing an author for introducing AI slop into a verenable program is as moronic as introducing AI slop into a verenable program.

> It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.
> - Vincent Felitti, MD (writing about alcohol addiction, but the analogy holds)

Both are wrong to do in most contexts.

If you disagree, then would you still defend him with this rhetoric if he introduced malware in the code?

This is a narrative built to prove an idea not a set of facts that leads to a conclusion.

Do better!

I'm not sure I get 4chan nonsense well enough to tell the difference between actual channers and the output of an LLM trained on Chan boards.

@be

@glyph @rmi

The fawning behavior they default to is not mysteriously influential with people, and some people are more susceptible to that influence than others.

this is not the case of just getting claude to generate the test suite (which in itself is, to be very polite, not ideal.)

@glyph

After they were weaponized for "Qanon" and Gamergate?

@glyph @be

Are you familiar with the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot ?

@glyph @be