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Ilya tweet:...

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from @fasterandworse of this parish

Thank you sir, I didn’t know the way to fix ailing welfare states was to make ChatGPT available to all....

hell yeah, keep up the good work, fuck the police.

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“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either...

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Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of WordPress. He recently had a bout of extreme shitheadry and massively transphobic behaviour on his product fucking Tumblr of all the fucking places to be a transphobe. Nobody there is delighted with him at present. His own staff are publicly posting what a shithead he is on the official Tumblr staff...

Google responded to Ed, Ed responds....

courtesy @self...

Historian sneers at billionaire while HN trip over each other to lick boot.

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An AI company has been generating porn with gamers’ idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards...

In this big thread, over and over, people praise the Zuck-man for releasing Llama 3’s weights. How magnanimous! How courteous! How devious!...

Context: consumerfinance.gov/…/cfpb-takes-action-against-c…...

Turns out software engineering cannot be easily solved with a small shell script large language model....