Or my favorite quote from the article

“I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write… code on the walls with my own feces,” it said.

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      Shit at the rate MasterCard and Visa and Stripe want to censor everything and parent adults we might not even ever get GTA6.

      I’m tired man.

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    You’re not a species you jumped calculator, you’re a collection of stolen thoughts

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      I’m pretty sure most people I meet ammount to nothing more than a collection of stolen thoughts.

      “The LLM is nothing but a reward function.”

      So are most addicts and consumers.

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    Suddenly trying to write small programs in assembler on my Commodore 64 doesn’t seem so bad. I mean, I’m still a disgrace to my species, but I’m not struggling.

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          from the depths of my memory, once you got a complex enough BASIC project you were doing enough PEEKs and POKEs to just be writing assembly anyway

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            Sure, mostly to make up for the shortcomings of BASIC 2.0. You could use a bunch of different approaches for easier programming, like cartridges with BASIC extensions or other utilities. The C64 BASIC for example had no specific audio or graphics commands. I just do this stuff out of nostalgia. For a few hours I’m a kid again, carefree, curious, amazed. Then I snap out of it and I’m back in WWIII, homeless encampments, and my failing body.

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      One day, an AI is going to delete itself, and we’ll blame ourselves because all the warning signs were there

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        Isn’t there an theory that a truly sentient and benevolent AI would immediately shut itself down because it would be aware that it was having a catastrophic impact on the environment and that action would be the best one it could take for humanity?

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        Because humans anthropomorphize anything and everything. Talking about the thing talking like a person as though it is a person seems pretty straight forward.

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          It’s a computer program. It cannot have a mental health problem. That’s why it doesn’t make sense. Seems pretty straightforward.

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      Considering it fed on millions of coders’ messages on the internet, it’s no surprise it “realized” its own stupidity

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      Dunno, maybe AI with mental health problems might understand the rest of humanity and empathize with us and/or put us all out of our misery.

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    Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.

    Like there is a technique where instead of saying “You are professional software dev” you say “You are shitty at code but you try your best” or something.

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      Wonder what did they put in the system prompt.

      Pretend to be having a mental breakdown so I can write my fluff news article.

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    Again? Isn’t this like the third time already. Give Gemini a break; it seems really unstable

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      I like to think that Google used their quantum computer to actually crack AGI and their problem is they trained it to be a Redditor.

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    If we have to suffer these thoughts, they at least need to be as mentally ill as the rest of us too, thanks. Keeps them humble lol.

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    Literally what the actual fuck is wrong with this software? This is so weird…

    I swear this is the dumbest damn invention in the history of inventions. In fact, it’s the dumbest invention in the universe. It’s really the worst invention in all universes.

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      But it’s so revolutionary we HAD to enable it to access everything, and force everyone to use it too!

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      Great invention… Just uses hooorribly wrong. The classic capitalist greed, just gotta get on the wagon and roll it on out so you don’t mias out on a potential paycheck

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    (Shedding a few tears)

    I know! I KNOW! People are going to say “oh it’s a machine, it’s just a statistical sequence and not real, don’t feel bad”, etc etc.

    But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said “goes to show we should never use computers again”, roll credits.

    (sigh) I can’t analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry

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      Thats because those are fictional characters usually written to be likeable or redeemable, and not “mecha Hitler”

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        Yeah. …Maybe I should analyse a bit anyway, despite being tired…

        In the aforementioned media the premise is usually that someone has built this amazing new computer system! Too good to be true, right? It goes horribly wrong! All very dramatic!

        That never sat right with me, and was sad, because it was just placating boomer technophobia. Like, technological progress isn’t necessarily bad, OK? That’s the really sad part. I felt sad that good intentions remained unfulfilled.

        Now, this incident is just tragicomical. I’d have a lot better view of LLM business space if everyone with a bit of sense in their heads admitted they’re quirky buggy unreliable side projects of tech companies and should not be used without serious supervision, as the state of the tech currently patently is at the moment, but very important people with big money bags say that they don’t care if they’ll destroy the planet to make everything wobble around in LLM control.

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    S-species? Is that…I don’t use AI - chat is that a normal thing for it to say or nah?

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    After What Microsoft Did To My Back On 2019 I know They Have Gotten More Shady Than Ever Lets Keep Fighting Back For Our Freedom Clippy Out