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Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Ironically, Tom Riddle's diary encouraging kids to commit suicide [1] and then showing them how to do it would be more on brand than the version in the books. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots#Suic...

Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

The ease by which you can get banned worries me.

It seems unavoidable that soon AI will manage its own suspicion level, provide feedback on it, and when high enough it will call the authorities.. because that's what people do. Banning doesn't cut it, like you can't deny internet access.

Soon this will spiral out of control and AI (Palantir) will have to run the response and the parallel AI state erects itself.

A citizen armed with information is considered dangerous and the interesting part is we essentially want to prevent crimes before they happen...

Brave new old world.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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post #9

I understand that this is kind of beside the point, but it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. (Though since it is being powered by GenAI, which has also driven people to do bad things, perhaps it is an apt comparison.)

I had to do a double take. They’re framing this comparison as a positive thing?!? (On second thought, the LLM probably made up this analogy on its own, which... in a way, is even worse.)

Definitely concerning when things are made up

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Nope. Thats just you. The rest of us have lots of issues.

Nope! Works on for me as well! Chrome on android... I think you guys are just being salty because it's X

Doesn't work for me, Chrome on Mac. Used a private window to test not being logged in. Got nothing against Twitter, but if I didn't already have an account, definitely wouldn't bother making one just to watch a video.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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post #5

This is sick, in the 90's Tony Hawk sense of the word. I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now. There were times in my life where I would wait for an engineering team to change the color of a button for a day to a week. We are not in the slow times anymore.

You think technology was the bottleneck? Your button was not important and should not consume resources of any kind and definitely not engineering resources. It taking a week was a feature, not a bug. It meant engineering properly evaluated the priority and urgency of tasks. Your magic slotmachine will enable a level of shit-producing and warped perception of engineering effort of breathtaking scale. It will have con…

Sometimes latency matters more than throughput. A simple change can and should go in quickly if the manager wants to see it. Except sometimes it can't because the team is strangled with red tape.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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post #100

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Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

For a dash of dystopia: Imagine a company starts using that same LLM fuzzy-matching [0] against what you intend to be normal search activity , to detect "bad" queries and "bad" users who will be blocked. Maybe they'll delete your SSO/email/videos/photos too, who knows. I can easily imagine it happening, especially after some point where they start using the same systems to "enhance" your query. [0] To be specific, yo…

This is one of the reasons I currently use Gemini for daily use and research.

Google has lots of experience with search history, and presumably handles this better than new companies.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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post #15

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Why would that comparison be bad if it's accurate? Also, "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both can be made good and evil.

I hope people at least know that they should not create Skynet.

We are literally creating won’t right now.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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post #39
post #10

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> stylelint beeps you can't just pass hex colors directly, that color is not in our design system, you need to write a design doc for custom color tokens and get approval from the frontend platform team, open a PR in their repo, make sure you have storybook tests covering all the color button variants, ask in their slack channel for approve, ask their manager, wait. someone from their team leaves a comment: "we shoul…

Probably should be telling the design team to actually use the colours that are approved then.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

In the near future, the only way to tell if someone is human will be to have them say a slur. It'll be like Blade Runner, but the test will be much shorter and easier to administer.

I literally received a cold-call from an LLM two weeks ago.

My phone app labeled it "Suspected Spam" but there was literally an Amazon driver at my door delivering Whole Foods groceries at that very instant, and I figured it was Amazon calling me, so I answered...

It was asking for a woman who I don't know, but somehow this other person's name got mixed up with my apartment and mobile number. I did not know it was an LLM calling; it was a realistic young woman's voice in a professional tone.

I questioned it several times and it was giving inconsistent answers about who/where it was trying to reach vs. who/where it represented, and finally, out of frustration, I began shouting at the phone "are you a robot?! prove your humanity now!" and to my surprise, the AI smoothly said "you're right to call me out! :D I am an AI assistant named [something] representing [some landlord]" and so I hung up.

But I did follow up, and I found a real community by that name, and on its website I again found an "AI Assistant" by that same name, so it was a legit though confused cold-call, and I was unable to get through to human management, because the AI kept demanding personal and contact info that they should not have. So I left a review about the encounter on Google Maps...

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