https://x.com/btibor91/status/1994714152636690834

ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta includes new references to an "ads feature" with "bazaar content", "search ad" and "search ads carousel"

Seems much simpler to assume that both 'goyslop' and 'AI slop' are derived from slop as in:

• Slop is the common name for household food scraps
• Slop is the common name for pigs' animal feed

That KnowYourMeme article even says: 'The term combines the terms "goyim," a Jewish word for people who are not Jewish, and "slop," a term often used to criticize food as disgusting.'

There are strong legal and PR and ‘ethical’ pressures to engage in such CYA behaviors and avoid blame.

Argument #4 in their rebuttal in one of their ongoing legal cases is, "Our TOS says you can't use ChatGPT to commit suicide."

If you haven't already watched it, I think you would enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Kl-Ye0fz4

Removed the last section of things which have happened since April, because it was nothing new to anyone here, was mostly written by Claude, and didn't matter anyway. The main thing is that copyright has been tested in courts a few times, to mixed results. Maybe I'll do a copyright shenanigans timeline as my next post.

A potential answer to something special that carbon can do: time crystals.

GPT-4o can’t be kept around in its old form, it is too psychologically risky. I think that OpenAI is right about this from both an ethical and a business perspective. You can argue that the benefits are diffuse and the harms are concentrated, but I don’t think that works in practice. Some form of safeguards are needed.

My worry here is that they seem to be trying to spin these safety problems as being specific to 4o, instead of being fundamental to their entire business.

How was this created?

I'll keep beating this drum: Everyone please read Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep.

Calling it "diagonalization" is distracting for me, since I associate that so much with a particular type of strategy for reasoning through proofs. "Encapsulation" feels like another potential word for what you've described, though I don't think it's 'better' in the sense of being more clear to the average listener. "Trapped in the Matrix" almost feels right, but I generally don't like using fictional references, especially since we see how that can go weirdly like with 'redpilling'.

But, it comes to mind because of the idea of being inside a system and yet being able to have an understanding of that system which is bigger than the system itself, even potentially letting you alter the system and thus foil the its plans. Even when you are 'diagonalized' or 'encapsulated' by an agent/system, that greater agent is still itself within a greater possibility space of all possible agents/systems.