Post Aa1v71bbOZ2dSRyZ9s by cstross@wandering.shop
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(DIR) Post #Aa1onckOze3P8QSRGq by cstross@wandering.shop
2023-09-22T14:36:16Z
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Welp, today I just got my first email from an AI company offering to train a ChatGPT-based language model on my books to help me with search and writing.I told them if they did so I'd sue and that I hoped their business model was criminalized. ("Die in a fire" was merely implied.)First of many, first of many: the bottom-feeding grifters have arrived.
(DIR) Post #Aa1ongprnGnloX2rLM by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T14:41:57Z
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@cstross You almost wish the Necronomicon was real and in the public domain... Imagine the possibilities:- Great news, Boss, our largest LLM has now achieved general sentience!!- Wow that's great!- But wait, there is more! Since we trained it on public domain sources, it has also achieved trans-dimesional awareness! It can communicate across space and time!- That is AMAZING! Wait, what is it doing right now?- Invoking an entity named Shub-Niggurath! Ain't that great?- Oh, wait...
(DIR) Post #Aa1rKAAsRolxywU7Qe by kithrup@mastodon.cloud
2023-09-22T15:09:56Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross Clearly a *specific* thing the Laundry was set up to prevent.
(DIR) Post #Aa1rMNO4IHj9XWi5Vg by jmax@mastodon.social
2023-09-22T15:10:51Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross Yeah, pretty sure the New Management finds LLMs hilarious.
(DIR) Post #Aa1rd3lCWGcFahUA7c by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T15:14:00Z
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@kithrup @cstross Let's just say the SAS squadron assigned to the Laundry would have terminated anyone posting the full text of the Necronomicon online with extreme prejudice.Including deleting the entire datacenter with a thermobaric charge or two.
(DIR) Post #Aa1rfkzUlCHKFOSR5U by cstross@wandering.shop
2023-09-22T15:12:28Z
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@jmax @ParadeGrotesque The New Management has only gotten as far as 2017 at this point. LLMs and COVID-19 lie in their future ...
(DIR) Post #Aa1rflsnRaVx0uKbHk by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T15:14:28Z
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@cstross (OH SH*)@jmax
(DIR) Post #Aa1rvTxlpxE84O9KGO by tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2023-09-22T15:17:19Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross Damn. I guess we're gonna need another archivist/librarian. If we ever do awaken one of the ancients, they're gonna rock up, salivating at devouring our souls, then hit some two factor authentication or a CAPTCHA ("Select all of the pictures that contain pictures of R'lyeh") and just fuck right back off to the unthinking depths. *Soul's aint worth this horseshit*.
(DIR) Post #Aa1s3zEJTIarMIwTiK by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T15:18:53Z
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@tezoatlipoca @cstross "Please prove you are not a Great Old One, by selecting all the pictures of a puppy""Oh, I love puppies!" 🦑
(DIR) Post #Aa1sRz2jojThjIyFG4 by tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2023-09-22T15:23:11Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross Cue the hit new sitcom "Cthulu and Dorg" about a depressed unemployed elder god struggling with relevancy in a mythos skeptical present day, whose life is turned upside down when on the recommendation of his (its?) therapist, he rescues a talking puppy.
(DIR) Post #Aa1tKGlQ9Fe0KKkwaG by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T15:33:01Z
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@tezoatlipoca I like the way you think, and I would watch that sitcom!Pic strangely related.@cstross
(DIR) Post #Aa1u3MKqHTiadZpCL2 by bytebro@mastodonapp.uk
2023-09-22T15:41:05Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca @cstross Even Cthulu loves kittens. It's official.
(DIR) Post #Aa1uxjIu4Rpq5enV2m by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T15:51:12Z
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@cstross I believe you have the correct explanation.@bytebro @tezoatlipoca
(DIR) Post #Aa1v71bbOZ2dSRyZ9s by cstross@wandering.shop
2023-09-22T15:47:18Z
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@bytebro @ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca Under the fur cats are actually Lovecraftian skin goblins
(DIR) Post #Aa1v72JujoUFfshxE8 by bytebro@mastodonapp.uk
2023-09-22T15:51:05Z
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@cstross @ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca Actually, that explains a lot. As an aside, should you ever be motivated to re-work any of your _Atrocity Archives_ stuff, you could do with more cats in there. Like that one :-)
(DIR) Post #Aa1v732w2QV1vVluOu by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T15:52:56Z
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@bytebro @cstross Come, Mr Bigglesworth!@tezoatlipoca
(DIR) Post #Aa1w4H3xZJ9oU2UZnc by alexshendi@rollenspiel.social
2023-09-22T16:03:03Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross @robindlaws What I always wonder about:Why train an LLM on generic, irrelevant data? Why not solely on the play about the pallid king and his daughters?I am gazing at black stars in the white sky and wondering...
(DIR) Post #Aa1wANtR5QvzP9U1Vw by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T16:04:39Z
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@alexshendi You mean the King in Yellow, of course?@cstross @robindlaws
(DIR) Post #Aa1xYTnItjm8bvfV3Y by alexshendi@rollenspiel.social
2023-09-22T16:20:21Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross @robindlaws Thou shalt not idly speak the NAME out loud.
(DIR) Post #Aa1xdZVr41ZznJw1jM by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T16:21:07Z
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@alexshendi (sorry...) 🤐 @cstross @robindlaws
(DIR) Post #Aa20mlEb9UZYcKw80m by PTR_K@dice.camp
2023-09-22T16:56:22Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross c.f.Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darknesshttps://escapepod.org/2005/11/17/ep028-corporate-network/#Podcast #Stories #SciFi #Horror #Humor #EscapePod
(DIR) Post #Aa24IeTa7AMwmmqLNw by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2023-09-22T17:35:24Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Thread, up and down 😂
(DIR) Post #Aa24fpqI1NNEhLWGmm by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T17:39:53Z
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@cavyherd We aim to please.
(DIR) Post #Aa2DYIuaxOfk7t17I0 by CarlMuckenhoupt@mastodon.social
2023-09-22T19:19:31Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca @cstross If cats have the power to summon Cthulhu, that's exactly how they use it.(I was going to phrase that as a counterfactual, but then I remembered that we don't really know what cats get up to when they're out)
(DIR) Post #Aa2SPAcxt4pF8fsDRY by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-22T22:04:59Z
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@tezoatlipoca @cstross And, just because I can...
(DIR) Post #Aa3qk2p4gyc14Xz4XA by eonity@mastodon.social
2023-09-23T12:33:43Z
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@cstross @bytebro @ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca Off-topic but every time “Lovecraft” and “cat” gets mentioned in the same sentence I get a bit anxious. Please do not look up why. Save yourselves. 👀
(DIR) Post #Aa3qk3oP0xfW8kg37o by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2023-09-23T13:11:23Z
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@eonityI am going to assume catgirls with tentacles...and just go make my coffee.@cstross @bytebro @ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca
(DIR) Post #Aa3qk4tkyXXtVeBq6q by cstross@wandering.shop
2023-09-23T13:18:07Z
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@GeoWend @eonity @bytebro @ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca TIRED: catgirls with tentaclesWIRED: batgirls with pentaclesWEIRD: vatgirls with ovipositors AND a hectocotylus
(DIR) Post #Aa3qk5YWWy9hY5GOeW by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2023-09-23T13:27:17Z
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@cstross...honestly would not be surprised, knowing of the existence of ovipositor sex toys.@eonity @bytebro @ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca
(DIR) Post #Aa3qk6IxkJIns6zU2K by eonity@mastodon.social
2023-09-23T13:43:12Z
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@GeoWend @cstross @bytebro @ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca …wait WHAT?!
(DIR) Post #Aa3qk76aln08M2D7OS by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-23T14:13:20Z
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@eonity You must be new around here.Welcome to Mastodon! @GeoWend @cstross @bytebro @tezoatlipoca
(DIR) Post #Aa3qqXg8spvGVXu83s by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-23T14:14:33Z
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@eonity Cats of Ulthar, amirite?@cstross @bytebro @tezoatlipoca
(DIR) Post #Aa3r0viCNqDlwPorg0 by eonity@mastodon.social
2023-09-23T14:16:23Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @GeoWend @cstross @bytebro @tezoatlipoca actually been on here for quite a while, but thanks for the welcome anyway!
(DIR) Post #Aa3rAOSuqdmVj0BRqq by eonity@mastodon.social
2023-09-23T14:18:11Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross @bytebro @tezoatlipoca no, it’s far worse. Um, so Lovecraft used to have a pet black cat. Lovecraft has also been known to be pretty racist in his life. I will just end this here. Don’t look it up. 👀
(DIR) Post #Aa3rJA9DRzG5vR9Ofg by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-23T14:19:26Z
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@eonity Yeah, no, I will take your word for it, this is the kind of thing I don't need to know about on a lazy Saturday afternoon.@cstross @bytebro @tezoatlipoca
(DIR) Post #Aa4EXVQxP5XcwXG0uW by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-23T18:39:44Z
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@toolbearThanks! 😊 @tezoatlipoca @cstross
(DIR) Post #Aa6047BtRv1IJaDqNc by phantomkitty@furry.engineer
2023-09-24T15:07:08Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @tezoatlipoca @cstross kitten refuses to let Great Cthulhu sleep until it has been fed.