<![CDATA[so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right?]]>so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/ba2866e7-1be9-4fc7-98f1-a8abcdddb6bb/so-we-re-calling-ai-imitations-of-people-sloppelgangers-now-rightRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 07:09:25 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 20:54:38 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right? on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:35:09 GMT]]>@joshsusser um heck yeah

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/116452393560697593https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/116452393560697593Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:35:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right? on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:15:02 GMT]]>@zoocoup @MedeaVanamonde @kimlockhartga Cool. I figured it was already in use somewhere. It's the obvious portmanteau!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/joshsusser/statuses/116451606695247608https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/joshsusser/statuses/116451606695247608Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:15:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right? on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:10:24 GMT]]>@MedeaVanamonde @joshsusser @kimlockhartga Ingrid Burrington coined it during the Grammarly nonsense last month https://bsky.app/profile/lifewinning.com/post/3mgqaymhkf227

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/zoocoup/statuses/116451588491967370https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/zoocoup/statuses/116451588491967370Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:10:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right? on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:54:16 GMT]]>@joshsusser @kimlockhartga

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116450817246046776https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/MedeaVanamonde/statuses/116450817246046776Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:54:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right? on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:19:44 GMT]]>@joshsusser 🏆

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/TresFluke/statuses/116450681433155638https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/TresFluke/statuses/116450681433155638Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:19:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right? on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:26:03 GMT]]>@joshsusser I've been training my own sloppelganger this past week (because I want to learn about fine-tuning models and training LoRAs, and I don't want to steal anybody else's writing to do it and I have millions of words of my own writing on the web I can use as the corpus).

It's good to have a name for the abominable creation. So far, it makes the model dumber and meaner, which is a pretty hurtful result that I choose to blame on bugs in the training process.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/swelljoe/statuses/116450470335362836https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/swelljoe/statuses/116450470335362836Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:26:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to so we're calling AI imitations of people "sloppelgangers" now, right? on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:58:59 GMT]]>@joshsusser We are now!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/pawsplay/statuses/116450363903496267https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/pawsplay/statuses/116450363903496267Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:58:59 GMT