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So there’s been a lot of talk recently about AI slop taking over the internet. And I just wonder if it's going to end up changing the way we talk. And more importantly: should we (want to) change the way we talk? Many places (websites, schools, forums, although strangely enough,...
Is #1 and #2 all that different though? They at least seem to be part of the same response, at least for me, in the way that I typically deal with thinking about things like death. I avoid the topic or distract myself from the implications only because I have largely accepted the inevitability of the outcome.
But I would also push back a little on the way you describe them as 'cognitive distortions', or "comforting stories designed to reduce dissonance rather than finding an accurate model of reality."
I don't really find much comfort in accepting the fact that I'm going to die. But it is almost certainly going to happen, so why... (read more)
I think you're right that the element of wanting to believe is a big factor possibly in susceptibility to spirals, but I'm not sure that manic individuals can meaningfully choose in any way how long they stay in a manic episode or that finding it fun is what makes them likelier to stay in that state for longer.
So there’s been a lot of talk recently about AI slop taking over the internet. And I just wonder if it's going to end up changing the way we talk. And more importantly: should we (want to) change the way we talk?
Many places (websites, schools, forums, although strangely enough, not social media sites) have begun predictably pushing back. Part of this involves tools—ironically, sometimes also other LLMs themselves—to detect LLM/AI-generated content so that they can be taken down as spam before they’ve ever had the chance to poison the web further.
And (this is by no means an insightful or novel concern), but a part of me wonders is this is going to... (read 714 more words →)
Sorry can you be a bit more specific? You said GPT-4o ignored the prompt but then you said the rest of the time it say "yes" and asked how it could be of assistance. How many times did it reject the prompt and what proportion of it was 'the rest' where it say yes?
I have no candidates but I agree with this wholeheartedly. I think my ideal future is precisely to pause progress on AI development at the level we currently have now, and to appreciate all of the incredible things and good that the current generation of tools are already able to accomplish. Even compared to just where we were half a decade ago (2020), the place where we are now with respect to coding agents and image generation and classification feels like incredible sci-fi.
I think this would be a really important thing to work on: trying to find potent memes that can be used to spread this idea of cashing out now before we inevitably lose our gains to the house.