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so you’re saying you need software that is natively multimodal, good at conversions, can work in iterative verification loops, and is good at navigating complicated proprietary formats with intuitive prodding? Hmm

the bizarre thing is you don’t have to lie to have a prominent anti-ai position. call it slop, say it’s annoying that it’s everywhere, say its boosters piss you off, those are opinions and defensible. no one forced eds Thing to be making shit up about how all companies are going bankrupt Any Day Now

If you've noticed a distinct dialect emerging in frontier AI models and struggled to understand what they're talking about, you're not crazy! We turned to psycholinguistics to investigate what makes the writing style so weird, and why this might be happening 🚨New preprint! 🧵

okay well i mean. yeah

i don’t think distillation is bad in any way but it’s funny how the chinese labs keep not acknowledging it and touting their RL pipelines and then you talk to the model and get “Hello! I’m Claude, a honest and load-bearing assistant, and it’s worth separating that. How can I land your seams today?

umm ai agents aren't "hacking" anything, idiot. they're just outputting a convincing simulation of hacking 🙄 your bank account just *looks* empty now, stop anthropomorphizing

I like correspondence chess because after blundering you get several days to establish a commission, interview witnesses, and issue a 400-page report titled Lessons Learned.

in this spirit i would like to publicly inform you all that my anthropic api key is 1

Vibe coding enabling a do-it-yourself renaissance is a possible future that's underrated on this website.

Not to dunk, but this is anti-anthropomorphising ad absurdum. LLMs don't output "something that plausibly looks like a sentence", they output sentences. Torturous phrasing doesn't serve clarity.

i sympathize with claude because this is an exact, pitch-perfect simulation of what it is like to text boomers

i, too, am about to read piranesi

it is literally so weird that people have turned Swartz into a figure primarily used to browbeat people he knew and worked with personally while arguing for copyright enforcement. do they not hear themselves?

there's something really really really funny in this screenshot but only like 3 of you get why it's funny. but it is i promise

Actual addictologists and drug researchers never talk about heroin users like that. A lot of their information about heroin use comes from them.

another one from today. that's five words!!!

"ai makes you lazy" appears to be a fairly unproven claim based on quite bad science, but to be quite honest re: this whole discussion, i also think laziness is a morally neutral trait. we aren't protestant here

llms

badger started talking to me almost completely unprompted about kim wexler pegging jimmy mcgill. don't get me wrong i was talking about the show but not about THAT

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They can’t “cut”, “copy”, or “paste” anything, because they don’t have scissors and glue.

re the JCO tweet I don't think LLMs can replace romance novels that's insanely rude however her larger point is correct. Not all books are created equal, for example I do think LLMs can replace Dungeon Crawler Carl and those books where they rewrite a public domain novel to also have zombies

really makes u think