

Okay, complete shot in the dark here - the āhumanoid robotā part is an attempt to convince investors theyāre making AI more humanlike or some shit like that
Okay, complete shot in the dark here - the āhumanoid robotā part is an attempt to convince investors theyāre making AI more humanlike or some shit like that
Saatchi says you can type in a few words and the AI will generate scenes ā or even a whole show. There are two test shows. One is Exit Valley, which is a copy of South Park set in Silicon Valley. Hereās an excerpt. [Vimeo]
For anyone who decides not to click, youāre not missing out - the āepisodeā was equivalent to one of those millions of shitty GoAnimate āgroundedā animations that you can find on YouTube. (in retrospect, GoAnimate/Vyond was basically AI slop before AI slop was a thing)
The closest that has to a use case is the guys who will do obnoxious parodies because the rights holders wonāt like them. Letās get Mickey Mouse doing something edgy!
Considering Tay AI was deliberately derailed into becoming a Hitler-loving sex robot, and the first wave of AI slop featured deliberately offensive Pixar-styled āpostersā, I can absolutely see this happening. (At least until The Mouse starts threatening Showrunner with getting sued into the ground.)
i am not surprised that they are all this dumb: it takes an especially stupid person to decide āyes, i am fine allowing this machine to speak for meā. even more so when itās made clear that the machine is a stochastic parrot trained on the exploitation of the global south via massive amounts of plagiarism and that it also cooks the planet
And is also considered a virtual āKICK MEā sign in all but the most tech-brained parts of the 'Net.
are all promptfondlers this fucking dumb?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Abso-fucking-lutely yes. David Gerardās noted how āthe chatbots encourage [dumbasses] and make them worseā, and using them has been proven to literally rot your brain. Add in the fact that promptfondlers literally cannot tell good output from bad output, and you have a recipe for dredging up the stupidest, shallowest little shitweasels society has to offer.
New article on AIās effect on education: Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams
(Shocking, the machine made to ruin humanity is ruining humanity)
This reads like something thatād be considered too offensive for South Park (mildly ironic, considering an entire episode infamously milked hard-Rās for all theyāre worth)
Found an attempt to poison LLMs in the wild recently, aimed at trying to trick people into destroying their Cybertrucks:
This is very much in the same vein as the iOS Wave hoax which aimed to trick people into microwaving their phones, and Eduardo ValdĆ©s-Heviaās highly successful attempt at engorging Googleās AI summary systems.
Poisoning AI systems in this way isnāt anything new (Baldur Bjarnason warned about it back in 2023), but seeing it used this way does make me suspect weāre gonna see more ChatGPT-powered hoaxes like this in the future.
Fear: Thereās a million ways people could die, but featuring ones that require the fewest jumps in practicality seem the most fitting. Perhaps microdrones equipped with bioweapons that spray urban areas. Or malicious actors sending drone swarms to destroy crops or other vital infrastructure.
I can think of some more realistic ideas. Like AI-generated foraging books leading to people being poisoned, or chatbot-induced psychosis leading to suicide, or AI falsely accusing someone and sending a lynch mob after them, or people becoming utterly reliant on AI to function, leaving them vulnerable to being controlled by whoever owns whatever chatbot theyāre using.
All of these require zero jumps in practicality, and as a bonus, they donāt need the āexponential growthā setup LWās AI Doomsday Scenarios⢠require.
EDIT: Come to think of it, if you really wanted to make an AI Doomsday⢠kinda movie, you could probably do an Idiocracy-style dystopia where the general masses are utterly reliant on AI, the villains control said masses through said AI, and the heroes have to defeat them by breaking the massesā reliance on AI.
To slightly expand on that, thereās also a rather well-known(?) quote by English mathematician G.H. Hardy, written in A Mathematicianās Apology in 1940:
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
(Ironically, two of the theories which he claimed had no wartime use - number theory and relativity - were used to break Enigma encryption and develop nuclear weapons, respectively.)
Expanding further, Pavel has noted on Bluesky that Russiaās mathematical prowess was a consequence of the artillery corps requiring it for trajectory calculations.
HUMANCENTiPAD II: LLM Boogaloo
The only way in which it may succeed as a deterrent is that it actually costs some money (film and processing cost real money and itās not cheap) and requires actual work to do those extra steps.
I expect the ārequires actual workā part will work well in deterring AI bros - theyāre lazy fucks by nature, anything more difficult than āpress button for instant gratificationā is gonna be a turn-off for them.
Stumbled across a particularly odd case of AI hype in the wild today:
I will say it certainly does look different than standard AI slop, but like AI slop, its nothing particularly impressive - I can replicate something like this pretty easily, and without boiling an ocean to do it. Anyways, hereās a sidenote:
In the wake of this bubble, part of me suspects physical media (e.g. photographic film) will earn a boost in popularity, alongside digital formats which LLMs struggle to generate. In both cases, the reason will be the same - simply by knowing something came on physical media or āslop-hardened mediaā, you already have strong reason to believe the piece is human-made.
Looking at the comments, most of the outrage is on principle - theyāre here to hear Kevin McLeodās own output, not a slop-botās.
Whilst weāre at it, bring back Tamagotchi - they donāt ruin the planet, and also theyāre cute
The video is heavily euphemised and I think I got away with it
Sidenote: It would be hilarious if YouTube began demonetising videos featuring Microsoft Copilotās Cum Zone
I always had a vague outline of just how fucked up the rats are, but reading this put everything sharply into perspective for me. God damn, this was good.
Baldur Bjarnason has given his thoughts:
I mean⦠yeah.
Also, between this and seeing tech types link glowingly to a crazypants ācolonise the light cone by exploring latent spaceā type of delusional bullshit and Iām staring to worry that computers, as a concept, might not be salvageable after these clowns have run the show into the ground
In other news, Kevin McLeod just received some major backlash for generating AI slop, with the track Kosmose Vaikus (which is described as made using Suno) getting the most outrage.
And just a couple paragraphs before that:
Reading HPMOR gave me a sense of crushing second-hand despair that Iāve only previously experienced when finding out things about Chris-Chan. It really is that bad.
(the real cognitohazard was the friends we made along the way)
With Trumpās administration overdosing on crypto and purging competence at all levels, chances are we may see someone pull this kinda shit on the US gov itself.