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sophiebaybey · 20 days ago

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Not to preach to the choir but I wonder if people generally realize that AI models like ChatGPT aren't, like, sifting through documented information when you ask it particular questions. If you ask it a question, it's not sifting through relevant documentation to find your answer, it is using an intensely inefficient method of guesswork that has just gone through so many repeated cycles that it usually, sometimes, can say the right thing when prompted. It is effectively a program that simulates monkeys on a typewriter at a mass scale until it finds sets of words that the user says "yes, that's right" to enough times. I feel like if it was explained in this less flattering way to investors it wouldn't be nearly as funded as it is lmao. It is objectively an extremely impressive technology given what it has managed to accomplish with such a roundabout and brain-dead method of getting there, but it's also a roundabout, brain-dead method of getting there. It is inefficient, pure and simple.

#the notes on this post are about to get sooooo annoying #this doesnt touch on the fact that AI is stealing artist's jobs which i think is the real biggest harm of AI #but like #god #just take a minute and think about how stupid the current use-cases for AI are when you consider how it gets to those conclusions #this guesswork has its place in fields where guesswork is necessary like when screening for potential health issues in the medical field #but the benefit of the medical field is that when you get a false positive you can just do further testing to confirm the initial reading #that's called a second opinion and it is how the medical field is structured fundamentally #if you screen someone for cancer and it comes out positive #but it turns out they didnt really have cancer #that's fine! that's good news and it's good that you were at least wary of it!#but so many other applications for AI do not have this leeway where incorrect answers have further reaching consequences #and more importantly AI isn't stealing the fucking jobs of doctors!!!#although jesus i really wish doctors would stop using AI to take notes for patients #yes please lets give all my personal medical info to a big machine that stores and processes literally everything it hears #im sure there would never be far reaching consequences if that machine ever had a data breach #blah

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ahb-writes · 2 years ago

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(from The Mitchells vs. the Machines, 2021)

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lorenzonuti · 1 year ago

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Whispering secret data.

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sexypeople-contests-2025 · 1 day ago

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#tumblr 2025 #tumblr polls #tumblr sexy machine contest #tumblr sexy machines #machine fucker #machines #data star trek #metal sonic

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radiospectre · 3 months ago

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playing with shaaapes.

#artistry #star trek tng #star trek tos #data soong #lore soong #mr spock #data’s proximity to ‘machine’ < sharp #lore’s proximity to ‘human’ < soft #mr spock being mixed vulcan/human < both #can you tell i have a thing for characters with emotional issues.

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digitalismmm · 8 months ago

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The internal components of a wireless router

#digitalismmm #digitalism #digital #tech #techcore #machine #machines #computer #retro #aesthetic #data

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deadmaidclub · 11 months ago

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my only complaint about data is i wish he was worse

#deadmaidart #star trek #star trek the next generation #data #geordi la forge #daforge #my favorite bit to do with robot characters is draw them functioning like a bad pc and it feels irresponsible to do with a character that i #canonically an almost impossibly impressive machine but i cant help myself.

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whumpacabra · 7 months ago

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I don’t have a posted DNI for a few reasons but in this case I’ll be crystal clear:

I do not want people who use AI in their whump writing (generating scenarios, generating story text, etc.) to follow me or interact with my posts. I also do not consent to any of my writing, posts, or reblogs being used as inputs or data for AI.

#not whump #whump community #ai writing #beans speaks #blog stuff #:/ stop using generative text machines that scrape data from writers to ‘make your dream scenarios’#go download some LANDSAT data and develop an AI to determine land use. use LiDAR to determine tree crown health by near infrared values.#thats a good use of AI (algorithms) that I know and respect.#using plagiarized predictive text machines is in poor taste and also damaging to the environment. be better.

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nicjeann · 5 months ago

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someone prompted the newest AI program deepseek to make a heart rending piece of free form poetry about what it means to be an AI in 2025….why is it literally giving something lore soong would say from star trek. and 2, holy shit this was heart wrenching…

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#star trek #star trek the next generation #lore soong #data soong #star trek tng #android #robot #deepseek #ai #artifical intelligence #singularity #the rise of machines is sooner than we think

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brokenrefraction · 2 months ago

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water dispenser roboe

#this is still part of the mindscape and willow's alternate dimension stuff but #im starting to think i should add individual oc tags for them cause some of them are really different #alongside the willow tag #tenka willow #my sona #oc:p-03 #my art #their code name is p-03 but they like calling themselves laundry #they primarily promote hydrating yourself and can distribute water like a vending machine #(no cups included tho)#they also do health checkups and. for some strange reasons they can do a lot more other things #which might be slightly concerning (like scanning for data or retrieving information rather quickly)#also their tails can extend to be longer #oh and they only have 1 antenna #other than that they're just a silly guy

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kaiserouo · 2 months ago

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#i wonder what the ghost would feel #tbf my educated guess would be that they would learn that this kind of sensor data represents what kind of taste #further transform that into a feature vector and classify. ordinary machine learning stuff #but im gonna reject all that and say ghost can get the vibe from all that so it does understand taste #...which is kinda the same thing after all. considering most machine learning stuff are not explanable and are basically black boxes #so you can call that vibe as well #also i don't wanna color all of that #destiny 2 #destiny hunter #destiny exo #destiny ghost #destiny ghost plinx #destiny 2 art #my art

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mudwerks · 1 year ago

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(via Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students | Ars Technica)

Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting facial-recognition data without their consent.

The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, "Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe," displayed after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine.

"Hey, so why do the stupid M&M machines have facial recognition?" SquidKid47 pondered.

The Reddit post sparked an investigation from a fourth-year student named River Stanley, who was writing for a university publication called MathNEWS.

Stanley sounded alarm after consulting Invenda sales brochures that promised "the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders" of every person who used the machines without ever requesting consent.

This frustrated Stanley, who discovered that Canada's privacy commissioner had years ago investigated a shopping mall operator called Cadillac Fairview after discovering some of the malls' informational kiosks were secretly "using facial recognition software on unsuspecting patrons."

Only because of that official investigation did Canadians learn that "over 5 million nonconsenting Canadians" were scanned into Cadillac Fairview's database, Stanley reported. Where Cadillac Fairview was ultimately forced to delete the entire database, Stanley wrote that consequences for collecting similarly sensitive facial recognition data without consent for Invenda clients like Mars remain unclear.

Stanley's report ended with a call for students to demand that the university "bar facial recognition vending machines from campus."

what the motherfuck

#m&m vending machine #secret face image database #college students #massive invasion of privacy #tech #collecting facial-recognition data without consent

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belphieslilcow · 2 years ago

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It's still so insane to me that according to the anime, levi just canonically has a polybius arcade machine