antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

Ooooh that would explain a similarly weird interaction I had on a ticket-selling website, buying a streaming ticket to a live show for the German retro game discussion podcast Stay Forever: they translated the title of the event as “Bleib für immer am Leben”, guess they named it “Stay Forever Live”? No way to know for sure, of course.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It’s distressingly pervasive: autocorrect, speech recognition (not just in voice assistants, in accessibility tools), image correction in mobile cameras, so many things that are on by default and “helpful”

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

Poor rich guy, forced by the leftmost party available to support the party that is now constructing concentration camps.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Now I’m curious how a protected class question% speedrun of one of these interviews would look. Get the bot to ask you about your age, number of children, sexual orientation, etc

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Fucking rude to drag lisp into this. How dare they.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago

According to some scholars, s-risks warrant serious consideration as they are not extremely unlikely and can arise from unforeseen scenarios.

Guys I have found a way to phrase my anxiety in a way where every single word is extremely load-bearing

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Unilever are looking for an Ice Cream Head of Artificial Intelligence.

I think I have found a new favorite way to refer to true believers.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

AllTrails doing their part in the war on genAI by disappearing the people who would trust genAI: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/17/news/alltrails-ai-tool-search-rescue-members

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

But it apologizes when you tell it it’s wrong!

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 25 points 1 month ago

but the WMF hasn't gotten the message, saying that the project has been "paused". It sounds like they plan to push it through regardless.

Classic “Yes” / “ask me later”. You hate to see it.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

Even the color scheme is the HN theme, looks like

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Unsneering, I think because it has all sorts of invisible behaviors that work ok in isolation/for the common case but then eventually combine to bite you in the ass. Shellshock, for example; I think Thomas did a pretty decent rant about that one when it came out (damn, has it been more than 10 years already?)

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

 

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

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