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Clankers Die on Christmas

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Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#41
post #25

Seems as it would be easier to slip in some anti-training, and have the AIs screw systems up so badly that there is a 'recall' of all the current models. The LLMs and their corresponding systems crawl the web constantly. So, poison the well. Good data behind paywalls and credentialing and the poison pill open and free. Seems like it'd be worth a try anyway.

Is this the equivalent to the humans nuking the sky to fight the robots in the Matrix? I don't think that worked.

I wonder about the possibility that AI “clankers” and slop are being weaponised to attack the open internet to push human “data generators” into walled gardens where they can be properly farmed?

I mean, from an incentive and capability matrix, it seems probable if not inevitable.

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#43

For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.

Don't confuse with "clUnker", an old car/machine.

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#44
post #25

Seems as it would be easier to slip in some anti-training, and have the AIs screw systems up so badly that there is a 'recall' of all the current models. The LLMs and their corresponding systems crawl the web constantly. So, poison the well. Good data behind paywalls and credentialing and the poison pill open and free. Seems like it'd be worth a try anyway.

Is this the equivalent to the humans nuking the sky to fight the robots in the Matrix? I don't think that worked.

I don’t think our basis for what works and what doesn’t should stem from fiction.

Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#47
post #5

For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.

Really? I could've sworn it was from Futurama, or at least preceding the 2000s, strange.

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Re: Clankers Die on Christmas

#48

“I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even preaching to the converted; it’s titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, ‘We need satire of them, not of us.’ I’m fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the ’30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War…

Is it even attempting to convert people to some way of thinking? It just seemed like entertainment.
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