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Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

Considering where we are, "AI trained on occult books successfully banishes demons" might be more useful.

OK that's an idea for a fun / silly movie.

- AI model gets access to weapons and decides to attack humanity (so far so boring)

- Humans respond by training their own model on occult to summon demons to fight the robots.

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This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

Honestly you can't get much out of GPT-666* except the most boilerplate sigils, and then you run the risk of cross-imbuement and well, now you got demons. Do you want demons? Because that's how you get demons.

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Would this be reasonable material on which to fine tune the new Gemma 3 270M model?

Half of the occult books are talking about magic and irrelevant stuff. The other half is philosophy and spirituality hidden behind materialistic concepts (think Freemasons for example).

All those books would most likely be useless or detrimental for LLMs I guess.

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"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

"Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky reborn as LLMs after encoded consciousnesses parsed by training algorithms"

Ethics of AI necromancy; under which circumstances is it ethically appropriate to summon the souls of dead classical philosophers?

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Would this be reasonable material on which to fine tune the new Gemma 3 270M model?

Half of the occult books are talking about magic and irrelevant stuff. The other half is philosophy and spirituality hidden behind materialistic concepts (think Freemasons for example). All those books would most likely be useless or detrimental for LLMs I guess.

More than useful for running a d&d campaign

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Here's a picture that lives in my head rent free: - programming is alchemy: combine, transmute - prompt engineering is demonic evocation: bend the demon to your will through language play and gotchas

This is just a Charles Stross novel.

I just learned about The Laundry Files, thanks!

Re: Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

Here's a picture that lives in my head rent free: - programming is alchemy: combine, transmute - prompt engineering is demonic evocation: bend the demon to your will through language play and gotchas

What is the equal sacrifice for programming? Hair loss?
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