I don’t like to do teasers, so Finishing up another lengthy narrative but In the meantime, my other tech and anti LLM long form stuff is at https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/tags/narrative/ #NoAI #AI #LLM #AIHype
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The other day, @noybeu published a great video explaining whats is wrong with the Digital Omnibus, a bundle of laws the EU commission wants to pass quickly in order to weaken the data protection standards the EU previously established in the GDPR.
My favourite quote is what @maxschrems says around minute 42:
When we talk about the AI discussion I usually kind of allude that originally when we came up with all those principles in the eighties in the Council of Europe, the idea was always that we are going to have this big algorithm that is going to suck up all your data, come to weird conclusions, and therefore we need transparency, rectification – we need all these things. And now, exactly at the time when this is the reality then suddenly the argument is we have to get rid of all these rules that were made for exactly this situation. So all this icks me a bit on all of that.
If you read it you sometimes get the idea that the commission wants to get to the AI promised land. And to get there we need to cut right through the whole GDPR.
Video: https://tilvids.com/w/vkPhGef6r5gvR9jiED2fGW
More: https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles
Next week, NOYB will publish the "GDPR Reform Report" with more details.
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One thing I thought #LLMs were good for was translation. Apparently #Gemini and others aren’t that great at that either.
#Wikipedia restricted contributors from a nonprofit called the Open Knowledge Association (#OKA) after editors discovered #AI-assisted translations added factual errors and incorrect citations.
As predicted, humans will be relegated to cleaning up the mess LLMs leave behind, for salaries far below the value of full-time employment to do the job properly.
[…] Zimmerman added that if this method proves insufficient, OKA is considering introducing formal peer‑review mechanisms.
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
Why is my local city and public library looking to pay $50/hr to an AI Artist Residency? · brennan.day https://brennan.day/why-is-my-local-city-and-public-library-looking-to-pay-50-hr-to-an-ai-artist-residency/ #AI #Art #LLM #AIHype
You all should read this fantastic post by @onepict about how, largely, AI people just can't leave us the fuck alone. But I'm noticing more and more and more that they get super mad when they wanna shove their #AI creation at you and you simply say, no thanks. That's it. No extra bashing, just, no thanks, and they get super offended. https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar #AIHype #LLM
You are not doing science research if you stuff an LLM into the critical path of your experiments. You are, instead, producing science-shaped artifacts with the same peripheral relationship to science that LLM text output has to truth.
The reason for this shouldn't be hard to see but apparently is. Simplistically, science is about hypothesis-driven investigation of research questions. You formulate the question first, you derive hypotheses from it, and then you make observations designed to tell you something about the hypotheses. (1)(2) If you stuff an LLM in what should be the observations part, you are not performing observations relevant to your hypothesis, you are filtering what might have been observations through a black box. If you knew how to de-convolve the LLM's response function from the signal that matters to your question, maybe you'd be OK, but nobody knows how to do that. (3)
If you stick an LLM in the question-generating part, or the hypothesis-generating part, then forget it, at that point you're playing a scientistic video game. The possibility of a scientific discovery coming out of it is the same as the possibility of getting physically wet while watching a computer simulation of rain. (4)
If you stick an LLM in the communication part, then you're putting yourself on the Retraction Watch list, not communicating.
#science #LLM #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #hype
(1) I know this is a cartoonishly simple view of science, but I do firmly believe that something along these lines is the backbone of it, however real-world messy it becomes in practice.
(2) A large number of computer scientists are very sloppy about this process--and I have been in the past too--but that does not mean it should be condoned.
(3) Things are so dire that very few even seem to have the thought that this is something you should try to do.
(4) Yes, you might discover something while watching the LLM glop, but that's you, the human being, making the discovery, not the AI, in a chance manner despite the process, not in a systematic manner enhanced by the process. You could likewise accidentally spill a glass of water on yourself while watching RainSim.
The reason for this shouldn't be hard to see but apparently is. Simplistically, science is about hypothesis-driven investigation of research questions. You formulate the question first, you derive hypotheses from it, and then you make observations designed to tell you something about the hypotheses. (1)(2) If you stuff an LLM in what should be the observations part, you are not performing observations relevant to your hypothesis, you are filtering what might have been observations through a black box. If you knew how to de-convolve the LLM's response function from the signal that matters to your question, maybe you'd be OK, but nobody knows how to do that. (3)
If you stick an LLM in the question-generating part, or the hypothesis-generating part, then forget it, at that point you're playing a scientistic video game. The possibility of a scientific discovery coming out of it is the same as the possibility of getting physically wet while watching a computer simulation of rain. (4)
If you stick an LLM in the communication part, then you're putting yourself on the Retraction Watch list, not communicating.
#science #LLM #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #hype
(1) I know this is a cartoonishly simple view of science, but I do firmly believe that something along these lines is the backbone of it, however real-world messy it becomes in practice.
(2) A large number of computer scientists are very sloppy about this process--and I have been in the past too--but that does not mean it should be condoned.
(3) Things are so dire that very few even seem to have the thought that this is something you should try to do.
(4) Yes, you might discover something while watching the LLM glop, but that's you, the human being, making the discovery, not the AI, in a chance manner despite the process, not in a systematic manner enhanced by the process. You could likewise accidentally spill a glass of water on yourself while watching RainSim.
An Open Letter to Cory Doctorow: Ollama is part of the enshittification! · brennan.day https://brennan.day/an-open-letter-to-cory-doctorow-ollama-is-part-of-the-enshittification/ #AI #LLM #AIHype
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html #Kagi #AI #AIHype
One of my favorite audiobook publishers, Podium Audio, hinted at over and over and over again, that they would love to eventually get into the AI narration space and I don’t have any words of anger anymore. I just hate this whole timeline. Just fucking stop it. You look pothetic even mentioning AI narrators in an interview about your company. Just stop it. Can we start bullying companies because these CEOs are just pothetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=9uAB4mRceo0vK8pO&v=pfZNAIsPZR4&feature=youtu.be #AI #AIHype
I do have to thank #AI for one thing. Some bit of writing that is just obviously fun or a torrent of vast emotions? Something that was clearly written because the author really enjoyed it? I’m loving that kind of beautiful art even if it has plot holes. I read a #Romance book recently where it was a joy to feel where the author was going, even if they swerved the Grumpy character archetype a little. I just really enjoyed reading this thing that I know the author had a really good time creating. The #AIHype helped me appreciate fun more among all the generated text that is generated to just put content out there. The Cupid Chronicles
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/3CA4ECFF-3750-49DF-A2C3-5ABF620847B7 #RomanceLandia
This is a far better response than the one I was going to make about Corey using an LLM. Acting ethically in an imperfect world https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/ #AI #AIHype #LLM