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    The CEO regarded us with satisfaction for his chatbot’s work: that, through a series of escalating tactics, it had convinced a woman to end her dog’s life, though she hadn’t wanted to at all. “The point of this story is that the woman forgot she was talking to a bot,” he said. “The experience was so human.”

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    Fucking demonic behaviour. michael-crawl

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      When Descartes was talking about ”I think therefore I am” he was trying to ascertain what knowledge he could be certain of as a base to build truth from, given the hypothetical that an evil demon was manipulating his perception of the world about him so he couldn’t believe his lying eyes and ears. I think tech CEOs are trying to make AI perform the role of that specific demon to twist our understanding of reality to do their hideous bidding. Which is apparently killing your dog. scared

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      And this was in response to a question about whether the LLM followed up to validate a diagnosis…

      Q: “Can your LLM ingest feedback to refine future output?”

      CEO: “It can talk vulnerable elderly people into euthanizing their pets.”

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      Yes they have made a fucking demon that needs to be removed from the face of the earth. A computer program less sentient than a virus embodying pure capitalist realist “reason” trained on texts emblematic of humanity at its worst due to the vagaries of capitalism. What the fuck have they done.

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        Every time I hear “but it can be useful sometimes in specific niche cases” I still hear the crackle of rainforests burning so someone can jack off to the infinite boobs generator, because the previous boobs that were already paid for with previous burned rainforest weren’t enough.

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            most stuff on a single computer these days

            The massive increase in electricity costs and carbon footprint is just the wide scale “AI” grifts pushed by the corpos that basically have free rein to continue doing so then.

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              yeah the individual cost of anything is going to pale in comparison to the unsustainable wide-scale industrialization of that same thing. especially when it’s something as exponentially costly as AI/techshit

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    Sad sign of the times when that the woman seems so entirely isolated that she is talking to a LLM as if it was a person. Not really a showing of how great the product is as how atomised society has become.

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    Sickening, talking some vulnerable, isolated, elderly woman into possibly unnecessarily euthanizing her companion is vile. This CEO should be dropped into an oubliette.

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      Exactly, something that isn’t even alive shouldn’t be making life or death decisions. That CEO is too fucking dangerous to be a free citizen, you don’t brag about making a distraught elderly person kill their beloved companion without any oversight and call that “humanity”…

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      LLMs are taught by scraping web forum posts, so they’re trained on bazinga-brained gibberish

      But CEOs are educated by ivy league universities and their ‘extra-curriculars’, and off of speeches and documents and papers authored by other c-suite ghouls

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    VERA can now autonomously handle 70-85% of user questions without human assistance.This has allowed AskVet to dramatically lower costs and nearly double gross margins from around 40% to 80%.

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    Can a veterinarian refuse to euthanize a dog in the US? Surprised that the vet passed the buck in this situation