fuck.

[sstephenson@indieweb.social]

@davidgerard every goddamn one has a post like this. They’re so proud

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard fuuuuuuck

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@davidgerard Okay, did Anthropic just turn up the dial on "You're an amazing super developer, just look at you go" in December or January or February? Because every single one of these posts has the same exact vibe of "please join my slot machine cult" and uses roughly the same structure and arguments.

[shammers@mastodon.coffee]

@davidgerard Reading that massive post... I think I almost cringed myself to death

[angelthorns@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard jesus fucking christ they lost their marbles

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@cthos @davidgerard people who weren't saying it before have said the models from december are so much better. i've no idea what they did, but clearly they haven't gotten around the fundamental problems.

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@dysfun @davidgerard but they say that with every update….

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@cthos @davidgerard that's why i said "people who weren't saying it before". i'm hearing it from people who used to know better...

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@dysfun @davidgerard are they out here just handing out “free samples”?

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@cthos @davidgerard i have nfc tbh, but it's annoying how many people who ought to know better are starting to fall for it.

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@dysfun @davidgerard truth

[lhp@mastodon.social]

@schrotthaufen @davidgerard The AI fad seems to infect mostly those who have either a dangerously high or dangerously low amount of self esteem ‍️

[bloognoo@retro.pizza]

@davidgerard
Well fuck. That's going to be a hard package to work around.

[cap_ybarra@beige.party]

@kboyd @davidgerard hey you do you

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@schrotthaufen @davidgerard Because they're designed to exploit what are basically security vulnerabilities in the human brain, specifically ones that another human can't easily exploit, which we have no defense against because the ones explained by humans are the only ones we've had to build an immunity to! See slot machine addiction as another example of machines designed to exploit your brain's security holes.

[lhp@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard stuff like this really kills my motivation for working on any of my projects. No matter how much thought and attention to detail you put into it, it'll probably depend on some library which maintainers have fallen for the AI thing.

To me this is even more disgusting than proprietary software.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@shammers sometimes you're listening to a person and you realise you're listening to a drug

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@bloognoo no shit, fuckin everything that renders a glyph depends on it

[canine3625@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard

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