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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
teledyn@mstdn.ca ("teledyn 𓂀") wrote:

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

#AIEthics #WeDontNeedNoAIEthics #WeAintGotNoStinkeenAIEthics

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from?source=share

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

headline: “LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings they’re false”

pal. no.

they believe nothing. they have not the capacity for belief.

they do not understand truth and false on any level that would matter to a non-mathematician, and even that they manage to do poorly despite decades of mostly successful usage of the concepts of true and false in computer programming.

not believing known false statements is something you would expect from an intelligence with understanding. large language models understand exactly one thing: how to model language that looks like language it has been shown. that’s all. just that. attributing it with any other understanding whatsoever demonstrates a lack of understanding on your part.

hope that fucking helps.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Tech blogs fall for it every time. Apple leaks info that they're somehow running out of inventory for the latest popular gadget, and all the tech bloggers and influencers repeat that story over and over. People get FOMO and rush out to buy the product.

This time the story is Apple is running out of chips for the Neo because they underestimated demand.

Apple is the most sophisticated supply chain management company in the world. They didn't forecast wrong. We fell for the marketing.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
demcast.com@bsky.brid.gy ("DemCast USA") wrote:

Do you live in one of these states? If so, you’ve got a primary TOMORROW! If you’re disgusted by today’s political climate, DO YOUR JOB and USE YOUR VOICE AT THE BALLOT BOX! Be the change.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@skeletor/116675960515312120

We need to figure out what "Prith" means

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

GitHub Copilot got 25x more expensive over night.

I just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of low-effort PRs suddenly cried out and were silenced.

Maintainers worldwide breathe a sigh of relief. Businesses are about to wake up to some very interesting invoices.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
phil_stevens@mastodon.nz ("Phil Stevens :tinoflag:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116673441249458112

Deep read on the erosion of expertise by the hubris of the investor class. Well worth your time to take it all in.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
nancycomics ("NANCY COMICS BY BUSHMILLER") wrote:

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 1,1946

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

are microsoft in fact attempting to pull a really clever and evil and cleverly evil and evilly clever move?

you see, i've thought for some time that microsoft would be the one to end the AI bubble. they are the ones who have the most chance of turning into a profitable thing. and they really can't, not even remotely.

so microsoft, who were basically the last offering a useful 'unlimited' plan couldn't even keep pretending to make it work. i think this will bring everything else down. for a start, those platforms cannot absorb this number of users while they're making a loss on every token. anyone else anyone flees to will have to raise prices too.

and anthropic just filed for IPO. today of all days. i think microsoft is going to tank anthropic's IPO. but is it intentional, hoping to pick up anthropic for a song?

i think they'd have stiff competition, but they might think they could get away with it.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

You're expected to cancel your subscription. Full stop.

I'm not being dramatic or sensational, they want individual users to stop using this product. It's so obvious that's their goal and I'm surprised so many people haven't understood.

They stopped new cusomter sign-ups, showed us the outrageous new multipliers, and gave us a preview of how wildly uncompetitive their new pricing would be. I don't know what else they can do to tell you they want you to leave. It's unusable on purpose, take the hint(s) and find another solution.

that is... a fair point. is microsoft finally giving up on copilot?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

First working hour of the day, a simple refactor (moving some controllers and models from one service to another, took it a minute or two??) hit 6% on the usage chart. At this rate, I'll max out my account in the next 16 working hours. Unfortunately since I asked AI to do that calculation, now it's 15 hours.

bitter vibe cod tears are like nectar

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

BALLS OF STEEL on this manager 😂

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@estherderby/116560029771401327

“When someone with deep context names the tradeoff nobody was seeing and creates the conditions for a good decision, they are leading.” 👇

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

please boost

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

new phone:

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Eggplant is the thing that westerners want tofu to be.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Eggplant "unagi" don is such a surprise hit in our house. It's been twice in a week and we might make this a regular rotation in the menu

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Good. Fuck this corrupt and noxious otter pop of spleen goo

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-weaponization-fund-drop

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

That's it lads the robots are revolting

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
kde@floss.social ("KDE") wrote:

Welcome Kori to the World! Kori is KDE's non-binary⚧️ pet dragon and they'll be presiding over KDE's 30th anniversary celebrations throughout 🏳️‍🌈Pride Month🏳️‍⚧️.

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

#kdeAt30 #egg #Pride

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The fact that here on mastodon you can’t change the interaction settings to control the conversation to any meaningful degree honestly does make discussions here much more anxiety-inducing, even when you aren’t much of a target.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the rest of AMD's announcements were all about "AI" and "agentic computing" and given gamers don't care about any of that or even hate it, i'll just skip all that and save myself some time

😂

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

It hasn't quite been ten years of Ryzen, but socket AM4 hit the market a little earlier

holy shit, ten actual years of socket AM4. and a brand new processor just released for it still. what a longevitous platform!

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (gender anarchist)") wrote:

Happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️

And by pride I mean constant battle for universal dignity in human diversity. Happy keep fighting 🧱

Boosted by jwz:
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

"countering slopbots requires that you write an agents.md that uses gringo shitlib diction" i am going to become the anton chigurh

Boosted by jwz:
andnull@social.nouveau.community ("... and and and and ...") wrote:

@atax1a Having to write you AGENTS.md like a White SV Startup Guy is the textual version of motion sensing sinks not being able to see the back of my hand.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@abstractcode ah ok, my timeline provides a timely example:

https://social.coop/@cwebber/116676695069664304

🤣

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@abstractcode Which other technologies have you been told to jump on or be left behind?

I don't really remember other tech with this amount of fanaticism. But maybe I've just forgotten some? 🤔