damned shame they couldn’t both lose

Ms. A reported extensive experience working with active appearance models (AAMs) and large language models (LLMs)—but never chatbots—in school and as a practicing medical professional, with a firm understanding of how such technologies work. Following a “36-hour sleep deficit” while on call, she first started using OpenAI’s GPT-4o for a variety of tasks that varied from mundane tasks to attempting to find out if her brother, a software engineer who died three years earlier, had left behind an AI version of himself that she was “supposed to find” so that she could “talk to him again.”

from here. what follows just gets more screech-inducing

I recall seeing someone elsewhere on the fedi trying to drum up a point like that a few weeks ago, their complaint was something like “I’ve been chased out of neurodivergent spaces for not being enough into LLMs”

No idea if their claim was true; I can definitely see the possibility of some ND neurotypes slanting more favourable, but nfi on the values

Not sure I buy the ground for that argument anyway tho. Lotta people used to smoke and society slapped all manner of regulation on that

and came by with a hachyderm account to post on the defed notice

sorry blake 🥺

the two things can go together, and not removing said mod means that if they do not learn they can still do plenty enough damage elsewhere later on

and I say this out of the position of having fucked up in a mod role before

seriously this just looks more and more embarassing the more you post about it

you realize that mod probably shouldn’t be one, right?

did you know you can just use mk.i wetware eyeballs to read dipshits’ posting histories? revelatory, I know!

and did you just roll into awful trying to pretend that it’s a place that is favourable to nazis, genocidists, and other shitbags? or to imply that I am? seriously? because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you post here before…

maybe you should stop making shit up in your head and acting like someone else said it

forgive me for I have sinned:

then my take/read is that your team simply sucks at this

your posts across various threads about this for DAYS are all running interference, and you could simply have skipped past that by going “look, here’s what ran, here’s the logs”

and as I said in my other comment on the other branch: running around shouting like you are isn’t a great look

lol, lmao even

you do realize all this comes across as running interference while feeling real guilty? you could just, like, drop a link to a repo with the bits. you know, with commit history. like i’ve been asking you for. just simply linking to that would be a real quick way to settle the issue! it’s even some free code review for you!

are you being intentionally obtuse? the code to do everything involved with this issue. the code that would be a very simple demonstrative “oh, okay, so that’s what’s happening” read with literally no ambiguity, as is extremely usual to do in open source. that code. where is it?

did you read my post and see the bit where I don’t make any moderation claims? where’s the code?

amazingly, I did actually click on those posts! and those posts did inform me that this is happening!

what part of the information do you consider wrong? where’s the code? I’ll go read and see where it disagrees

gitlab posts a totally-not-a-dear-john

The agentic era affords GitLab the largest opportunity in our history as a company, and we’re making the structural and strategic decisions to meet it. This letter has three parts. First, the operational and structural news, which is hard

you’d instantly guess what comes next!

fuckin yikes

came here to react from the same sentence

oh sure, I didn’t mean to imply that good isn’t happening, more observing on how far and popular the whackjobs have managed to come

I’ve been rewatching ReGenesis and you can sorta see a similar background to it (it being of the same vintage): bio attacks are the Big Bad, there’s actual mobilisation against viral spread, etc

kinda whiplash just how fucking rapidly the antivaxxer movement (and general anti-science) managed to spread and become popular in the years hence (and specifically circa the ~2016 mark)