AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
#AI #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability #OpenAI #Alphabet #ChatGPT #Claude #GHGEmissions #Bias #BigTech #ClimateJustice #AIImpact #Greenwashing #DataCenters #Google
https://the-14.com/ai-is-bad-for-the-environment-and-the-problem-is-bigger-than-energy-consumption/
#LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional.
#ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such.
The thing to keep in mind about Large Language Models (LLMs, what people refer to as AI, currently) is even though human knowledge in the form of language is fed into them for their training, they are only storing statistical models of language, not the actual human knowledge. Their responses are constructed from statistical analysis of context of prior language used.
Any appearance of knowledge is pure coincidence. Even on the most “advanced” models.
Language is how we convey knowledge, not the knowledge itself. This is why a language model can never actually know anything.
And this is why they’re so easy to manipulate into conveying objectively false information, in some cases, maliciously so. ChatGPT and all the other big vendors do manipulate their models, and yes, in part, with malice.
#LargeLanguageModels #LLM #AI #NotAI #ChatGPT #ChatGPTIsNotAI #MaliciousAI #NotIntelligent #ArtificialIntelligence
I just saw a post that referred to ChatGPT as "Mansplaining as a service", and it is so wonderfully correct - instant generation of superficially plausible yet totally fabricated nonsense presented with unflagging confidence, regardless of topic, without concern, regard, or even awareness of the expertise of its audience :D #chatgpt #mansplaining #GenerativeAiIsGoingGreat
Introduction to R.S., Author, Novelist Updated 11/20/24
First, a few words:
"One thing you learn from watching TV, movies, anime, and reading best sellers, to pulp, to fanfic: No story is perfect. There's always hopeful contrivance and caricature in plot or character, a little or a lot... but it works. We like it. It gets bought, published, produced, noticed, sometimes loved despite the warts.
"Authors and playwrights of all levels... take heart. Complete your project and go on to the next. Complete is the superpower you can have, perfect doesn't exist."
Who is R.S.?
I am a formerly published feminist SF author and a prosaist—which is what a poet is to poetry, but for prose.
I write #fiction stories that often address issues of gender at least peripherally. I'm aiming to short list for an Otherwise Award.
My genre tags are #sf, #sff, #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #romance.
I'm a fan of rhetoric and elocution; I'm a prosaist, remember? Humor makes life and writing tolerable.
My community is #author, #writer, #writingCommunity, and #writersOfMastodon.
I host the #EngenderedWriting hashtag with gender fiction prompts at #EngenderWritingQ.
I post often to various writing hashtags, which are variously called games, prompts, or challenges: #pennedPossibilities, #wordWeavers (which replaced #writingWonders), #writever, and #writerscoffeeclub,
If you become confused about my gender, that's intentional. I write gender fiction, so if I revealed mine, it would add subtext to my stories. If you know or learn it, please keep it to yourself. Thanks!
#ActuallyAutistic, which explains how I can overly focus, seem obtuse, or end up running down rabbit holes. No worries. It's actually a superpower.
Click the following link to see a list of shorter stories I've written to post exclusively on Mastodon (#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic). I retain the copyright on those stories.
https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/110470537747067765
I'm trying to build a network of authors by entertaining you, and by sharing what I've learned through decades of doing it the hard way. My motto: There Shall Be Content! I want to help our writing community by helping authors overcome what keeps them from completing stories. I'm learning self-publishing as a business. I want to push back the loneliness that's part and parcel of this solitary profession.
I follow serious authors, which means people diligently writing or working at completing stories or articles or anything containing words with the intent to publish, whether that's #fiction, #nonfiction, #scripts, #comics or #manga, or #games. I will read your profile before following, so I expect to see some content before I follow back.
I boost posts that announce authors' work and publications. This means that I want my followers (largely artists, authors, and photographers) to see your work. We're all creatives here, trying to be/become professionals. Everyone needs to promote their work; I want to help you. Don't repeat too often. Since I follow so many people, my timeline is full. Don't feel bad if I miss something. Private mention @sfwtr@eldritch.cafe!
I'll follow an #artist upon seeing interesting work. This can be #photography or hand drawn/painted #art. I am partial to #charcoals and #pastel, appreciate #sketch art, but love #watercolor (because I can't do that!), or just really good visuals. If wowed, I'll discuss what's great in reply, or #critique if you're really close and I think I can help. I occasionally commission cover and interstitial art. I do fine art photography and have done wedding and event photography (https://sfwrtr.zenfolio.com).
Life and Everything Else: Did you entertain me? Did you make me think? I may follow you even if you're not a creative. You need not courtesy follow in return. I have a weird sense of humor, which follows since many of my characters are snide and cynical.
Favorites: My clicking the favorite button means something caught my attention, was particularly apropos to the idea, was entertaining, or somehow pithy. I work never to click favorite to acknowledge I've simply read a timeline post. If I favorite replies in a conversation, that could be an acknowledgment. If I reply to your post, I've definitely noticed something!
Hot Buttons: Feminist issues are a hot button for me. So are labor issues, where jobs are automated out of existence without figuring out how to provide former employees to support themselves. If you want to use #genAI, #chatGPT, or AI to replace writers or artists, or jobs, you're barking up the wrong tree, buster! I post those road apples under #theComingLaborApocalypse.
I believe Boosting is Sharing, so I sometimes wait a while to provide posts better visibility. I appreciate when people boost my posts when they affect them in return.
I just heard the best way to read "ChatGPT". In French: "chat, j'ai pété."
I will never unsee that and will never be able to take anything that says "ChatGPT" seriously as a result.
I use a an open-source tool called "rclone" to back up my data to the AWS S3 service; this data is then quickly migrated from the base S3 storage tier to another tier called "Glacier", which is less expensive.
The tradeoff for the savings is that files in the Glacier class are not immediately available; in order to be able to restore them I need to request that they be restored in S3 so I can copy them. Typically you restore them for a limited number of days (enough time for you to grab a copy) before it then reverts back to Glacier class.
The other wrinkle is: The files are encrypted. Not just the files but the file names and the file paths (enclosing folders/directories).
Here is the tricky part: The backup software does not have the ability to request a file be restored from files stored in the Glacier tier. I have to do that using the aws command line or the console. This is doubly tricky because I will have to request the exact file using the encrypted filename and path... not the name I actually know the files as.
So it turns out that rclone can actually tell me the encypted filename and path if I ask it correctly because of course they've dealt with this problem already. :)
I thought to myself "Here is a chance for ChatGPT to show its quality".
I'll skip to the chase:
ChatGPT gave me exactly the *opposite* instructions of what I asked for.
Instead of telling me how to get the encrypted filename path from the unencrypted equivalent it, instead, told me how to get the plaintext from the encrypted filename - which I didn't have. This is using the latest ChatGPT 4o, the very latest.
I question the usefulness of this kind of tool (meaning ChatGPT) for anyone who isn't an expert. I've done this long enough that I know of other sources to look at (such as the manual pages) but if you aren't that savvy I'm not sure how you would find the right answer.
The ability to regurgitate unstructured data with LLMs is amazing - almost magical when I compare it to other efforts to do the same that I have been involved in previously.
But the ability to summarize and present the data in an accurate, useful form is nowhere near acceptable.
Thinking about it, from now on my definition for generative #AI will be the following:
'You waste money to pay someone to waste resources so they generate content for you that you can use to waste somebody else's time'
#ChatGPT
https://mastodon.social/@DJGummikuh/112167257490720886
Just FYI, if you have older parents or other family members, set up some sort of shibboleth with them so they know what to ask you if you ever call them asking for something. These new generative models are going to be extremely convincing, and the idiots in charge of these companies think they can use guardrails to stop it being used inappropriately. They can't. #genAI #LLMs #chatgpt
can you give me the ratio?
after each question I thought "just stop"
after getting chatGPT to give me a long winded "dunno mate" three times in a row I did stop
how many fiction books v non fiction books are there?
what are the best estimates of the ratio of fiction and non-fiction books?
in the average municipal library how many physical books are there?
(Q4 was to have been - how many of them are fiction?)
I might visit 2 or 3 local libraries and book shops, and ask them
'Artificial intelligence: there are problems we need to address right now, the rest is science fiction'
New blog post by @djoerd, Marvin van Bekkum & me.
We argue that we should focus on real risks of AI. We should not get distracted by fears of sentient AI.
https://www.radboudrecharge.nl/en/article/artificial-intelligence-there-are-problems-we-need-to-address-right-now-the-rest-is-science-fiction
#ai #tech #chatgpt #law #politics #privacy #environment #climate #discrimination
I had certain expectations of the possible, informed by decades of building things. Some stuff lay within my zone of talent, while others lay far out of reach, in a place of broken ROI.
Today I’m not so sure. Today far more seems possible than I ever expected.
I’m still not sure what to do about this. #ChatGPT has forever changed my career.
https://redeem-tomorrow.com/chatgpt-has-forever-changed-my-career
It turns out you can deploy some of the older Internet monsters against the newer ones.
#KI ist cool. Es gibt Leute, die haben Spass damit; es gibt Leute, die ihre Produktivität damit boosten. Und es gibt Firmen und Milliardäre, die von diesem #Hype profitieren wollen:
➡️ Nützliche kleine Hilfsmittel anbieten oder
➡️ Mit revolutionären—möglicherweise unhaltbaren—Versprechen Politiker und CEOs um ihre Finger wickeln.
Aber hinter diesen leuchtenden Fassaden warten auch dunkle Geheimnisse. Zum Glück petzen #ChatGPT & Co.
🧵
#KünstlicheIntelligenz #DNIP
https://dnip.ch/2024/01/12/die-dunklen-daten-geheimnisse-der-ki/
I considered updating my robot.txt file today. It made me feel a certain kinda way— Iike I was in a Richard Matheson book.
Anyway, I signed up for buymeacoffee as a little experiment. I posted some thoughts on there about robots.txt files.
The post is free and open, and doesn't require login or anything like that. Feel free to check it out and let me know your thoughts. #robotstxt #webcrawler #ChatGPT #openai
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fromjason/we-legend-some-thoughts-robots-txt
I'm trying out the #ThreadOfThreads idea: Keeping one (actually one each for English and German) of Fediverse threads I authored.
I start with a top-ten list of articles (or threads for those articles), according to the page views.
Happy #HolidayReading season!
🔟 «Right to be forgotten» void with #AI? (2023-03)
A description how hard it is to eliminate results from AI #ChatBot responses and what this means to our rights.
#RTBF #Privacy #LLM #ChatGPT
https://netfuture.ch/2023/03/right-to-be-forgotten-void-with-ai/
Today I used #chatgpt (3.5) for the very first time (yeah, I don’t much care for overhyped stuff).
It was very helpful in revising a LinkedIn post. Absolute garbage in assisting with technical stuff (in this specific case, writing a detection rule).
I guess it’s to be expected: it’s just a tool with its inherent limitations, that should be used for the right things. But contrary to other tools it pretends to be able to do stuff that it’s not 🤷