Posts by intelwire@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AQHCBxiIOkOaAWvxL6 by intelwire@mastodon.social
2022-12-04T20:46:04Z
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The Turing Test poisoned the minds of generations of AI enthusiasts, because its criteria is producing text that persuades observers it was written by a human.The result? Generative AI text products designed to "appear real" rather than produce accurate or ethical outputs.It *should* be obvious why it's problematic to create a piece of software that excels at persuasion without concern for accuracy, honesty or ethics. But apparently it's not.
(DIR) Post #AQItKgBJRQPDaUrx2W by intelwire@mastodon.social
2022-12-05T08:18:55Z
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Big shoutout to all the Turing fans out there (and there are many of you). I am not blaming Turing for any of this. I am commenting the modern assimilation of the broad concept as cultural product. You can stand down now.
(DIR) Post #AQKvavAq3Y66wYRKPQ by intelwire@mastodon.social
2022-12-06T17:14:18Z
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New from me: The original sin of generative AI chatbots is that they're designed to persuade you of something that isn't true https://jmberger.substack.com/p/mister-roboto
(DIR) Post #AQeO6aZMggMT1i2Tui by intelwire@mastodon.social
2022-12-16T02:30:11Z
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Twitter is now marking all links to Mastodon unsafe
(DIR) Post #ARJPrLqVJWI6lihREe by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-01-04T01:49:03Z
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As a scholar of dystopia, allow me to say this makes no sense at all.
(DIR) Post #ARwhgAk89qPWSiDlj6 by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-01-23T19:55:22Z
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Continuing my series on agency in #extremism with a look at how #extremist movements use #ideology to enhance their own agency https://jmberger.substack.com/p/agency-in-extremist-narratives-part?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf
(DIR) Post #AStm5NCVy80Ncg9WsK by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-02-21T08:26:52Z
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We have created an attention economy, and attention has subsumed every other form of currency. It's not enough to be the richest person in human history. It's not enough to be president of the United States. But the ability to attract attention is not correlated with merit or substance. The attention economy is going to be the death of us all.
(DIR) Post #AT62ngvvtY50jA4Q52 by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T23:10:21Z
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I am seeing evidence that deactivated Twitter handles are being reused within about a month of deactivation. If you're leaving Twitter, lock your account, delete your tweets and sign out of all devices, rather than deleting your account entirely.
(DIR) Post #AT62niYxputZmVL6Ya by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T23:37:40Z
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Just to put a little more color on this, I have been verifying the status of a list of deactivated accounts. I am finding two anomalies. 1) Accounts with same handle but different UID and different profile details 2) Accounts with same handle and same details but different UID and create date after I scraped the first time.
(DIR) Post #AT62nkBzmHi8pqbn28 by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T23:39:29Z
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It's possible both 1 and 2 are the original user returning, but I've seen enough of both at this point to think that is not the case. Also my understanding was always that a self-delete and reactivation would keep the same UID, but it's possible this has been happening for some time without me noticing it.
(DIR) Post #AUkDN21eGfDyfokPIm by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-15T16:21:31Z
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I feel this in my bones https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43478293/costs-becoming-a-writer/
(DIR) Post #AUomvt1224NhtQecZk by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-19T16:47:16Z
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When VDARE is just the tip of the iceberg in your training data, well, you have a problem https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/
(DIR) Post #AUomvugtntSv5ZFZTM by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-19T16:55:46Z
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Google’s AI training data includes text scraped from VDARE, Stormfront, Kiwifarms, threepercentpatriots and 4chan. In case you were wondering. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/
(DIR) Post #AUomvwFg04sVviWrJo by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-19T17:56:50Z
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But wait, there's more! The neo-Nazi VNN forum, Ben Klassen's Creativity Alliance, the massive Christian Identity archive at Christogenea and at least two other Christian Identity sites, White supremacist media giant Red Ice, virulent anti-gov site Bunkerville, Hunter Wallace's Occidental Dissent, David Duke's website, a major incel website. Many of this sites include vast collections of PDF books, so they probably punch above their weight in the dataset.
(DIR) Post #AUomvxqw32HAtYy824 by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-19T18:06:52Z
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Even a lackluster effort to clean the dataset would catch David Duke, Stormfront, Red Ice, and the Daily Stormer, which is, yes, also part of the training set according to the WaPo search tool included with the story. The only thing I thought to check that was missing from the dataset was 8kun, which is a pretty fucking low bar.
(DIR) Post #AUomvzJKcwaJPvGJvs by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-19T18:19:50Z
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When I say "punching above their weight," Christogenea, a relatively obscure Christian Identity site, ranked 7,727 out of 15 million sites. Stormfront ranked 27,505, Red Ice 157,582, David Duke 229,432. all easily within the top 5 percent of sampled domains.
(DIR) Post #AUseXaRjOoJULlstto by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-21T15:00:43Z
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The Washington Post showed how Stormfront and 4chan were included in AI chatbot training data. That's just the tip of the iceberg. https://jmberger.substack.com/p/liable-sources
(DIR) Post #AV1BieRpiFrJhMUlWq by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-04-25T17:38:28Z
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Meanwhile over at Notes, Substack is speed running the five stages of content moderation. 1. Denial2. Free-speech-mouth-noises==> 3. Bargaining4. Inadequate-token-effort5. Acceptance
(DIR) Post #AVRp5YLHWmKBkEIfjc by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-05-08T13:35:58Z
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RIP Metaversehttps://flip.it/4-AqOG
(DIR) Post #AW62OtCRdWWaTZqfpI by intelwire@mastodon.social
2023-05-27T14:47:22Z
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My series on anti-Asian and anti-immigrant dystopias continues with a look at the Chinese Exclusion Act, Buck Rogers and Jack London https://jmberger.substack.com/p/dystopia-and-the-mainstreaming-of