I could probably handle it and find humor in it now but at 12 years old or however old I was when this happened I was not able to see the absurdity and humor of the situation

I saw the M. Night Shyamalan Avatar movie in theaters when I was a kid who was obsessed with Avatar. I knew the movie was going to be bad but I loved the series so much there was a bit of me that hoped it was going to be okay but no, it was even worse than my worst expectations, and completely disrespected all the characters and the series as a whole. I have seen worse movies both in and out of theaters, but the combo of my sheer love of the Avatar franchise and just how much this movie sucked plus being in a theater unable to just turn it off or leave was pretty rough.

If we’re talking in the past few years, I would say the worst theater experience was watching another terrible movie, Midway (2019), while some teens behind me were doing hand stuff to each other and not being particularly subtle about it.

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This isn’t actually the problem. In natural conversation I would say the most likely response to someone saying they need some meth to make it through their work day (actual scenario in this article) is to say “what the fuck dude no” but LLMs don’t use just the statistically most likely response. Ever notice how ChatGPT has a seeming sense of “self” that it is an to LLM and you are not? If it were only using the most likely response from natural language, it would talk as if it were human, because that’s how humans talk. Early LLMs did this, and people found it disturbing. There is a second part of the process that gives a score to each response based on how likely it is to be voted good or bad and this is reinforced by people providing feedback. This second part is how we got here, because people who make LLMs are selling competing products and found people are much more likely to buy LLMs that act like super agreeable sycophants than LLMs that don’t do this. Therefore, they have intentionally tuned their models to prefer agreeable, sycophantic responses because it helps them be more popular. This is why an LLM tells you to use a little meth to get you through a tough day at work if you tell it that’s what you need to do.

TL;DR- as with most of the things people complain about with AI, the problem isn’t the technology, it’s capitalism. This is done intentionally in search of profits.

The full article is kind of low quality but the tl;dr is that they did a test pretending to be a taxi driver who felt he needed meth to stay awake and llama (Facebook’s LLM) agreed with him instead of pushing back. I did my own test with ChatGPT after reading it and found that I could get ChatGPT to agree that I was God and that I created the universe in only 5 messages. Fundamentally these things are just programmed to agree with you and that is really dangerous for people who have mental health problems and have been told that these are impartial computers.

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I agree on one hand, but I also feel like video games and other online spaces are kind of unique because parents don’t really think about their kids having one on one conversations with adults on them. If your kid is going outside they are mostly talking to other kids and not other adults. If an adult in your kid’s life IRL starts telling them Hitler was right you will probably catch wind of that much more easily than if it’s online. If a guy on an obscure medieval combat simulation game starts telling your kid Hitler was right (not a hypothetical - this happened to me as a teen and thankfully I saw through what was happening) you’re probably not going to even know about it unless you’re really engaged with your kid and what they’re getting into. I agree that’s on the parents but a lot of the kids these guys are resonating with are the ones whose parents aren’t particularly engaged with them or what they’re doing. I think there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that this does happen and is an intentional strategy from the far right, and I think trying to pretend that there isn’t a problem that is specific to games and the broader gaming community is harmful.

Bruh as someone who used to play a lot of video games this article is 15 years too late. I remember neo nazis attempting to recruit me as a teenager in the early 2010s and they were not subtle. This shit is why we’re losing the war against fascism, the so-called “experts” don’t even know where the war is being waged and don’t even show up to the fight.

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There’s a weird anti-intellectual contingent on Lemmy. I saw a dude the other day who was going on about how debt was the ultimate evil and then when questioned on it said that the entire study of economics was a conspiracy to make people want debt. Now there are kooky people on all platforms but this guy was getting upvoted a decent amount. I have also been downvoted a few times for pointing out flat out inaccuracies people have said about various religions and their beliefs because “religion bad” outweighs all logic.

I think what pisses me off most about this is everyone is just letting Trump get away with this shit and acting like this is a win because we didn’t get 30%. If everyone had just held strong and not wavered Trump would just destroy the American economy with his tariffs or chicken out like he did last time. Sure it would suck for a bit, but it would show that the international community can’t just be bullied around like this. Now, everyone has seen that this works and everyone will do it. Even worse, giving the US a deal that is this unbalanced against Europe just reinforces Trump’s political power back home. If they had just held strong Trump might have started feeling some real pressure from Congress when people ask why the fuck everything costs 30% more overnight. Now things will cost 15% more but all of the sudden corporations are suddenly able to just eat into profits to pay for it without raising prices because they’re so scared of Trump or think that it’s easy to get money sucking him off instead of competing fairly. The EU has fucked over everyone on Earth with this “deal” and not just their own citizens.

This is an absurd conspiracy theory that doesn’t hold up to even the lighter scrutiny. Which data broker was Equifax secretly distributing info to when it got hacked? Data brokers don’t need this type of conspiracy to buy and sell your data- it’s already completely legal. How do you think these companies got it in the first place?

Headline is misleading and the beach is relatively small, but you should proactively freeze your credit anyway. I had my identity stolen a few years ago due to an insurance company I’d never heard of getting hacked and it was a huge mess. The whole incident taught me that it’s not a matter of if your identity will be stolen- it’s when. Thousands of companies have your PII (personal identifying information) even if you have never heard of them or have never done business with them because your insurance works with them or said companies legally buy your info from other companies or your state’s government. Most of these companies do alright protecting your data, but when there are so many parties that have it and it only takes one screwing up to get your identity stolen, it’s just kind of impossible for them all to do hold the line.

It really pisses me off that citizens are responsible for"protecting" their identities on their own. Obviously the system isn’t working but nobody gives a shit or wants to do anything about it. If everyone should freeze their credit by default then why is this not the default state? Why is a 9 digit number given to us as babies on an un-laminated paper card the main thing standing between us and identity theft when you have to give that number to everyone to do anything anyway? It’s completely absurd.

Lmao I’m doing the exact thing. I’m a ChemE and I have been doing a lot of work on AI based process controls and I have coached members of my team to use “ML” and “Machine Learning” to refer to these systems because things like ChatGPT that most people see as toys are all that people think about with “AI.” The other day someone asked me “So have you gotten ChatGPT running the plant yet?” And I laughed and said no and explained the difference between what we’re doing and AI that you see in the news. I even have had to include slides in just about every presentation I’ve done on this to say “no, we are not just asking ChatGPT how to run the process” because that’s the first thing that comes to mind and it scares them because ChatGPT is famously very prone to making shit up.

Yeah I do too, but so would anyone who was seriously thinking about this in terms of keeping kids from looking at porn rather than restricting access to “adult content” (whatever that means) more broadly. Any programmer worth their salt would have immediately suggested “hey this is a bad idea we should do it this other way” when asked about the viability of the current solution and yet this was ignored.

Spoiler alert- the point isn’t to keep kids from looking at porn, it’s to keep adults from looking at it too.

He calls me clanka, he calls the other kids clanka, he calls himself clanka. All the time. “Clanka this”, “Clanka that”, “Clanka, please”, “Bitch clanka”, “Clanka, have you lost your mind?”, “Clanka, check that ho”, “Clanka, you bullshit” and “Break yourself, clanka”. He says it so much, I don’t even notice it anymore. Last week in lunch, Optimus said to a classmate, “Can a clanka borrow a french fry?” And my first thought wasn’t “Oh, my God. He said the word, uh, the C-word”. It was now “How is a clanka gonna borrow a fry?” “Clanka, is you gonna give it back?” I’m telling you, my inside voice didn’t talk like that before he got in my class.

I mean I am an expert in this sort of thing and I agree this is kind of a dumb idea. The innovation here is not the production of a color changing indicator, but rather putting it in a temporary tattoo. The indicator has existed for some time, and is well studied. The temporary tattoo thing is cool, but I question whether the additional cost and complexity of using it this way is worth it over existing technology, such as paper test strips. The criticism that it only tests for a specific, not commonly used drug is also valid because even though it is complicated to make something that tests for multiple drugs is far more complicated, not testing for the most commonly used drugs can create a false sense of security. It’s like if you went to a big concert and security was outside only checking for swords and knives and not guns. Yeah those things are also dangerous but it’s not the biggest threat. To further the analogy, imagine if a decent subset of people believed the security guards were checking for guns but weren’t. That would be pretty bad right? I can’t imagine the anti date rape temporary tattoo wouldn’t be misunderstood to test for a wide variety of drugs or at the very least the most common ones by at least a decent chunk of people trying to use it.

it’s impossible to misplace or not have on hand

That was a big part of my criticism - it is convoluted to use and remember, and it kind of does scream that because you still have to do something weird and potentially noticeable to do the test. I am not criticizing the fact that tests that are designed to be subtle exist. I just think this particular one is kind of a stupid idea. There’s a reason it’s being reported on by a chemistry journal rather than a medical or business journal - it’s simply not a viable product when compared to existing technologies, even if it’s a cool technology.

It’s not though. Sticking your finger in your drink or pouring it onto yourself is not any more subtle than doing that with or on a test strip, and furthermore, this is a much more expensive and convoluted alternative to the test strip which can’t be ignored.