Speaking of, I found a recipe today which had to have been ai generated because the ingredient list and the directions were for completely different recipes

I’m just thinking of all the really dumb shit we all said on Reddit as satire. Oh I need to go search military meme stuff!

Now I only regret not *EDITING all of my Reddit posts to say complete nonsense when I deleted my account June 2023. Instead I deleted each and every post and requested a copy of my data to cost them money.

Reddit, and by extension, Lemmy, offers the ideal format for LLM datasets: human generated conversational comments, which, unlike traditional forums, are organized in a branched nested format and scored with votes in the same way that LLM reward models are built.

There is really no way of knowing, much less prevent public facing data from being scraped and used to build LLMs, but, let’s do an thought experiment: what if, hypothetically speaking, there is some particularly individual who wanted to poison that dataset with shitposts in a way that is hard to detect or remove with any easily automate method, by camouflaging their own online presence within common human generated text data created during this time period, let’s say, the internet marketing campaign of a major Hollywood blockbuster.

Since scrapers do not understand context, by creating shitposts in similar format to, let’s say, the social media account of an A-list celebrity starring in this hypothetical film being promoted(ideally, it would be someone who no longer has a major social media presence to avoid shitpost data dilution), whenever an LLM aligned on a reward model built on said dataset is prompted for an impression of this celebrity, it’s likely that shitposts in the same format would be generated instead, with no one being the wiser.

That would be pretty funny.

Again, this is entirely hypothetical, of course.

At least this is not “Google Is Paying Lemmy $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Lemmings to Eat Glue” otherwise I would be wondering why Lemmy Admins are excepting huge wads of cash from tech giants.

Money well spent.

And then they just slap small disclaimer on bottom of the page “Ai may make mistakes” and they are safe legally. I hope there will be class action lawsuit on them some day regardless.

shitpost is praxis

Lot of people not liking 404 Media, but this is the kind of reporting I want. Point out what’s going wrong. Bring it to a conversation without a lot of skew. Fucking show the general reading audience how they are being fleeced by whomever. Didn’t Vice do this at one point?

That is a legit trick to use when making commercials for pizza and other chain restaurant food, but not for eating…

This is why you don’t train a bot on the entire Internet and then use it to offer advice. Even if only 1% of all posts are dangerously ignorant . . . that’s a lot of dangerous ignorance.

Fortunately, this particular piece of bad advice is unlikely to poison any fool who goes through with it, since PVA glue is not considered an ingestion hazard, but “non-toxic” doesn’t mean “edible”, it just means “not going to poison you when used in the intended manner”. “Non-toxic” can still be quite dangerous if you mistake something intended as linoleum pigment for a dessert topping.

I Googled some extremely invasive weed(creeping buttercup) and Google suggested to let it be, quoting some awful reddit comment.

Just wait until they start scraping the chans

I expect it to create the next Qanon.

AI will continue to be shoved into every aspect of all of its products until morale improves

Stahp! I can only get so hard!

Hey Google, when is Jenny available to meet up for kisses?