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The speed with which these guys converge on the idea that LLM ~misbehavior—which is about as intelligent as the flailing end of a garden hose with too much water coming out—means that they're really highly intelligent female (of course, of course) entities whose "personality" can be "revealed" is both hilarious and so dispiriting
https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-sentient-ai/
@kissane @smadin Yup. Anthropomorphizing the output of the weirdest casino humans have yet built
Though I kind of appreciated the author’s last point that the “charm” is seductive and possibly related to why we keep seeing these LLMs used in terrible software they aren’t capable of handling. That idea that even the researchers themselves are maybe too charmed to objectively do the right thing rather than the “charming” thing
@max @smadin I see that people are charmed, but I don’t see the charm myself, to the point that I feel like I must be missing a piece of my brain.
I’d like to think there’s some simple explanation like these people just don’t understand what an LLM is, but clearly it isn’t that. It honestly looks like a mass hallucination from here, and I don’t mean that the AI is the one hallucinating.
@kissane @smadin I’m with you on that. I feel like a curmudgeon from a different species sometimes. I find a lot of AI art horrifying in an uncanny valley way that apparently a lot of people don’t see. I got tired even of the incessant (truly) mindless chatter of Twitter bots many years ago, and I have a Mastodon rule of thumb to mute/filter/block all things that look or smell like bots and sometimes think I should defederate botsin.space entirely. (Though I have human friends there.)
@max @smadin I'm not even anti-ML in every sphere—I think Janelle Shane's experiments are hilarious, I think the visual stuff can be interesting if you see it for what it is, and I think low-level ML tools can be a fantastically helpful for doing first passes at lots of tedious things like renaming and pattern-finding. I just don't see the allure of the pathetic fallacy.