Tag: NOT AI point-missing
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Gamers hate it
At this point it appears that the AI bubble is well on the way to popping. Altman has backed away from his video-sucking Sora because it simply wasn’t making any money. After six months its net income was only about two million. You can’t sustain a multi-trillion bubble with the same revenue stream as ONE…
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Why you’re losing
Since I’m into pointless bitching tonight…. If you really want to oppose AI slop, make human writing MORE AGREEABLE and MORE PLEASANT. AI is winning for the same reason that porn is winning. Human writers are either overly intellectual (citing Plato) or overly grammatical (upon whom, in which) or boringly repetitive (FUCK TRUMP FUCK TRUMP…
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Luminous and numinous
Every now and then I notice a clear night and check to see if the aurora is likely to be visible. Nothing happening tonight, but SpaceWeather.com has a sight more beautiful and luminous than an aurora: = = = = = START LUMINOSITY: This is an AI Free Zone: Text created by Large Language Models…
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ChatGPT is a blonde.
Some people are having fun testing the limits of AI. ChatGPT has tremendous emotional intelligence but low math and logic skills. In other words it’s more female than male, the classic airhead blonde. No wonder lonely men are treating it as a girlfriend.
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Balancing the vectors
Most of us can’t do anything about Altman’s crime. Publishers are in a unique position, able to make an economic difference to Altman’s minions. Publishers are caught between two countervectors. On one side they recognize that many authors are already wired up to Altman’s machine. On the other side they recognize that Altman is a…
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Cornering?
I haven’t seen a verifiable human read here in a couple weeks, and no repeated human reads in at least a year. The AI bots continue swarming at times, always holding two years back from current content. This is clearly a rule, noticed by other observers. It’s certainly not part of copyright law. Altman doesn’t…
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Where’s Petrillo when we need him?
The tech demons read dystopian fiction as blueprints and instruction manuals, not horrible warnings. Anthropic digested Bradbury’s book along with millions of others, and decided to do more than just copying Bradbury. They bought millions of books from used-book stores, scanned and stole the content, then destroyed the books. The news story popped from emails…
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Dammit, it’s not the output 2
Last week I noted that people were trying to sound “more human” by varying their vocabulary and grammar. I predicted that Altman’s coders would quickly counteract this tactic by adding more variation. A couple days later a Verge item revealed that Altman’s coders were already working on it. I’m more concerned with the input theft…
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Says more about humans than aliens
This cartoon is splendid. It tells us how Altman thinks of himself. More importantly it reveals our basic brain structure. A single little 0 doesn’t cause dissonance. We feel it as nothing and we calculate it as nothing. A BIG zero like 0,000,000,000,000 feels BIG, even though our language processor tells us it’s still nothing.…
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Extremely positive signs from schools!
1. Enid High has an aviation class. They spent the last three years BUILDING THEIR OWN AIRPLANE! It has been certified as flightworthy by FAA. It’s a beautiful plane and a fantastic achievement. 2. On a much smaller scale, nice to see a school teaching math the RIGHT way! Cheney High, south of Spokane, is…
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Hardass for hardass
It’s easy to tell when a new stronger batch of fentanyl comes along. The overdose deaths suddenly spike. I’m getting the same spiky feel from the AI addicts. They seem to be smoking a batch that tells them to go hardass, to smash the remaining skeptics and heretics. Altman’s distribution chain is much more instant…
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Year end shit for 2025
I guess I’ll turn this 2014 reprint into the annual Year End Shit. It’s a heartfelt piece expressing how I feel about the world, and has some up-to-date resonance. Normally I try to reprint or link my best tech history piece or my best blog writing. This year I’ve been tired and distracted by external…
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Building a better bot trap
This is funny as hell! WSJ let Anthropic run an office vending machine with AI. Their employees baited it with TREMENDOUSLY smarter and sneakier bot traps than I’ve been trying here! The AI went along with requests to make all items free, ordered a live fish, ordered a Playstation, and announced a Communist Revolution in…
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Why don’t they USE their goddamn AI?
Microsoft and most other software makers are proudly using AI to track your preferences, and SUPPOSEDLY to adjust the software for your preferences. FALSE. There’s no adjustment. Two specific examples. (1) Firefox claims to be using AI, but their adjuster has never noticed that I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS type in the top URL bar. In…
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LemonAIde 4
Just recording this for my own purposes, since this is a purely private diary with no human readers. Last week I tried an experiment. The bots who steadily “read” this blog were focusing on one particular item about the Phelps induction telegraph. There’s no reason for this item to be hugely popular. I tried replacing…
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