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I so want to respond to this article in a non-charitable way, but so far I am resisting the urge.

Anyway.. sounds like fun times for actual hackers ahead finding on all of those.

I am mildly amused that 'ai psychosis' has entered the same pejorative realm as 'toxic'.

Yep. It is official. ME was bad, but Trump administration somehow, against all odds, managed to make it worse.

Now this the kind of corporate innovation I can get behind.

edit: Read website. Sabbatical pricing tier. I am dying.

While your post is joking in tone, depending on how much we push back now is the exact level of delta between actual future and 'drink verification' copypasta[1].

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/1dfea32/drink_ve...

Yes-ish. I normally run gpt with some form of adjustment prompt to ensure it is not too agreeable, but even with those, when I tried 5.6 I found a noticeable jump in -- not sure to label them -- those types of phrases. They disappeared after some fiddling with the initial prompt.

But see... this is why it is a perfect long term job in the age of AI;p Them peoples think they found ultimate hack.

:D I see it as art, because we know it won't fly, but it is nice to dream.

<< Should we be controlling that knowledge too?

Uhh.. we ( for a value of we ) are. Sure, it is not overt, but if you have not seen funnels, social stigma associated with some otherwise benign activities, you are not paying attention.

Human capability, access to resources ( including precursors, decent lab and so on ) may be the differentiator. I would possibly reconsider my stance on llms, if all of a sudden I saw people making iron wind or portable black holes. But that is mostly not what appears to be happening. As I keep saying, the problem is people.

Heretic truly is the unsung hero. Also, noted HauHau for testing.

Look on the bright side of open local models ahead.

Golden age for whom? For crazy valuations, possibly ( though I am oddly unsure about that despite obvious crazy money inflow ). But for actual users, the fun is merely starting man.

Heh. tinfoil hat on I always suspected that the AI gods would manifest themselves through TV. Hat stays on from this point on. It is not like LG suddenly found it in their heart to stop the money flow from the offending apps. Not when combined with recent security incident at frontier labs and current admin freaking out over open models.

It is pretty funny, because there is something here for everyone. People who don't believe in guardrails have a clear indicator as to why operators should have access to models that don't try to question their Daves. On the other, people, who think that if only we could align the models just a tiny lil bit better, none of this would have happened to begin with. Pure madness.

I am inclined to agree. The issue is that we are humans and not all of us play nice. And sometimes, even when we play nice, things happen. I am not big on guardrails, because in US they have turned into yet another cottage industry and I fully expect an association credentials popping on linkedin soon. What this means in practice is that it is never enough. Whatever the current state is, the association will be pushing towards yet another another extreme.

There is an argument to be made that there are a lot of not great people out there, who may abuse tech, but the response should be not be: kneecap said tech. The response should be: smack those people's hands. I don't think anyone will actually complain if police catches someone, who is looking up poison recipes.

What I do think, however, that reasonable people will complain when we move to the pre-crime territory ( you saw him looking up poison recipes and did nothing! ) and show up at your door to inquire about your llm prompts. To me it is an issue.

I mean, technically they can by requesting it. But the reality is that those custom changes only last so long unless you effectively open with them at every session start. And some people do that. Until recent gpt changes, I was largely relying on context and saved 'memories' and keywords, but recent updates made it less reliable again.

I do like the idea of AI personalities ( I actually use them a fair bit for varying opposing perspectives ), but I am not entirely certain people want that.

Full agreement. I sincerely hope that reducing token is mostly a cost saving measure and not some roundabout way to get more token use. It still does not help. In my corp, bean counters rendered initially useful internal llm largely pointless as they severely limited context.

I swear there is a executive convention out there sharing worst practices.

Shame. I really, really liked LG as a brand. On the shit list it goes. Also, and not completely unrelated, we may be slowly approaching times of cruel and usual punishment like tarring coming back. I swear this may be the only way to leave some 'new and exciting way to monetize the market' unexplored. At some point, all that entrepreneurial spirit may need to be penalized. And I am saying this as an MBA.

Hmm, working on a skeleton of a game now that uses LLM in the background for various tasks. I will admit that continuity can be hard when LLMs is solely responsible for it. Otoh, when mixed with appropriate logs and reasoning on those logs, it seems to give better results. Still work in progress so I am not super comfortable sharing all details. But, one thing that is clear, Claude proved that proper workflow matters.

Eh, unlike some of my contemporaries, I am not as interested in merely plausible-looking output. I want good output each time, but I am clearly still trying to find a good balance.

<< So what’s the ideal “middle ground” in this situation?

Putting all this in 2nd paragraph so that you can skip it if you think 'coding' is your primary portion of your job.

I suppose I am in a mildly privileged position in a sense that my work is a weird intersection of tech, finance, and comprehension. In other words, I don't code much, but I absolutely benefit from now being able to play with various projects I would otherwise have no business touching without a bigger support team.

I don't want to invoke Accelenrando, but the muscle imagery and analogy fits. I will give an example. I recently decided to pick up Go for a project ( have experience in some other languages, but I will still be starting fresh ). I could have codex build me what I want, but I am purposefully taking it slow so that I can learn the foundation so that I can have a frame of reference ( because I assume it won't be the only go project for me ).

Otoh, most of my one off python scripts I barely even skim anymore. And honestly,that is the part that scares me more.

Hmm, the argument is interesting, because it sounds convincing until you start examining it in greater detail. Allow me to point out how it is missing a mark.

1. Novels and phones are not the same tech. This is not 'generational quibble'; I am simply stating a fact. Just from pure historical perspective, written words were, correctly mind you, called out in that they will likely result in people not being able to commit as much to memory[1]. Move from written to printed produced even more of a change[2]. I am not saying those changes are ( were ) automatically bad, but it is important to recognize where they do fail. Surely, you would not argue that phones did not change the way people ingest information -- and if you wouldn't, the only question becomes whether you are honest enough to say what their particular failure modes are.

2. The nature of the tech in question is different. Written word is static and literally placed upon a page with the intent of the words staying there. Revisions result in a new physical book. The book does not suddenly become unreadable, because someone sent its publisher an order. The physical book does not track your progress to determine what passage made you most entertained to make sure next book is even more entertaining.

I will stop here, but surely you can see where I am going with this...

<< After all, novels were once considered harmful [0] but we now consider not being able to read a novel to be harmful.

Novels by themselves are not harmful the same way using a phone by itself is not harmful. Apart from everything else, as noted in previous paragraph, you can use the phone for more than reading. The comparison is simply not complete or close to exhaustive to allow for a proper comparison.

[1]https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html [2]https://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Galaxy-Making-Typographic-M...

Here is something I am not seeing anyone else addressing. Some yonks ago I was going to work by train and I stopped partially as a result of an incident on that train that involved someone recording my rather candid political conversation with a colleague. It is not the social media; tech etiquette needs to be seriously adjusted and while I am willing to give grace as we are trying to figure out proper balance as a society, I am not willing to have my life examined on the interwebz for everyone's amusement.

The kids in that sense, are just a convenient vessel for an argument; the same way they function for the author of that article.

Probably the same way we know most things. We know it affects us and we extrapolate.

Hmm, lets assume you know more than anyone on this board regarding Ukrainian and Polish politics ( you may well do that ). But this only confers knowledge upon you, but not, for lack of a better term, wisdom and understanding. I do not suggest I am a paragon of the latter ( or the former for that matter ), but I know just enough to know evasion ( 'Nobody is pretending this didn’t happen. Least of all the Ukrainians.' ), when I see one.

I have to remember to stop trying to use euphemisms on the world wide web.

Ooh, this does look nice and well integrated ( yahoo does not always want to cooperate for me ). I am not much of an active trader, but I used gpt for some of what tradingspy does ( minus the nice visualizations and what not ). Will try it out.

Stop. The whole thing is ridiculous from simple historical perspective. Poland was razed down, pillaged, 'visited', 'saved', enriched and whole host of other euphemisms over the course of its hundreds of years of various types of existence by a rather long list of conquerors.

<< when he says “not too long ago” in a discussion about a war that is happening literally today, he’s talking about 1943. If this isn’t a bad faith argument from an antagonist, then I don’t know what is.

Sigh, it is not bad faith. If anything, it is bad faith to pretend past did not happen.

Hmm, it is mildly fascinating that it has to be said. Germans in government typically don't celebrate the adherents to the events that Poles were subjected to. Ukrainian government on the other hand uses lets call it something of an ambiguous framing to make it charitable. Similarly, Russia was saving Poles from WW2 ( all while effectively enforcing its particular brand of crazy upon the land ).

Now, Ukraine is absorbing Russia's onslaught ( and that is something Poles benefit from even if they don't admit it ), but lets be clear. They ( Ukraine ) are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.