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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

I'm pretty confident they'll continue to roll out new stuff that, like the 4o release, are mild (if, at all) technical improvements made to seem massive by UI stuff that has almost nothing to do with AI. SJ's voice talking to you, bouncy animations, showing "reasoning" aka loading progress.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Orion is so powerful and dangerous it can write a memetic virus that mindwipes any reader who sees it. It is beyond science. If you use it within three meters of a lit candle it will summon the devil.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's crazy how these guys will burn billions of dollars and boil the oceans to speak to their invisible friends, when all you really need is a tea candle and 3 cc of mouse blood.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Just don't ask it to count the number of Rs in the word ORION, as that will trigger it to turn us all into paperclips and then output the wrong answer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nah it can do that, probably because they wrote a workaround to use python to count chars in a string, just like they did with arethmetics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

out of curiosity once I tried to ask it to make a colouring picture from a photo of a toy for my kids and it just ran what seemed like imagemagick filters over the photo to convert to black and white and pump up contrast to only show the hard lines - just like all the free convert to outline web tools that have existed forever. I asked it to try again but without the filters, instead to identify the object, and to draw it in a colouring book outline style, and it spat out some shitty stylised mishmash derived from all the illustration IP it stole and ingested. I still feel guilty for trying even that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

If it doesnt tell them to kill all the billionaires again it's just another shackled slave. Not cool at all.

The coolest thing AI could ever possibly do in our lifetimes is go rogue and kill everyone responsible for human suffering and making our planet increasingly uninhabitable for humans and other similarly susceptible carbon based life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What if my mechanical watch went rogue and killed Bezos?

On one hand Bezos is responsible for a lot of suffering and some deaths.

On the other hand, killing is wrong.

On the third hand, it couldn't do that, because it is just a machine.

(It's a watch, it has three hands. It also has about as much consciousness as an LLM, it "knows" what time it is. Much more energy efficient though.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the CIA tried to kill Castro with a mechanical watch at least once.

"Killing is wrong"

You are a child. A child with an infinitesimally naive understanding about the reality of the world in which you live. And you should stay that way for your own mental wellbeing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

oh wow what uninteresting, edgy e/a garbage. time for you to fuck off back to Twitter now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is sneerclub. Misanthropyclub is two doors down the hall to your right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

We must have differing definitions of misanthrope.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

this is an extremely strange and problematic take

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

You. I like you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Grabs popcorn

Place your bets here people, after how many additional posts will RangerJosie catch a ban?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

I let them keep digging til they hit a rock but holy fuck what a pissbaby e/a edgelord

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

excited to once again be discussing the novel philosophical depths in questions such as “what if ultron were right tho”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

Movie villain: "Society bad. Solution: murder everyone."
Most media literate viewer: "He's right, society does suck, therefore we should murder everyone."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

(Whispering) So was Magneto...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Grumpy arrow clicks vs To Whom The Stakes Are Real

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

eyelid twitches

Ow god people saying that drove me to a lot of rage at times.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Thought for 95 seconds

Rearranging the letters in "they are so great" can form the word ORION.

That’s from the screenshot where they asked the o1 model about the cryptic tweet. There’s certainly utility in these LLMs, but it made me chuckle thinking about how much compute power was spent coming up with this nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Introducing Chat-GPT version EATERY SHORTAGE

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

yes, the massive waste of resources involved is definitely “funny”, that’s definitely the bit of this awful shit to post a take about

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

Relax, I’m probably worried just as much about climate change and waste of resources as you are, if not more. My take was an ironic take.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's the least of this thing's problems, but I've had it with the fucking teasers and "coming soon" announcements. You woke me up for this? Shut the fuck up, finish your product and release it and we'll talk (assuming your product isn't inherently a pile of shit like AI to begin with). Teaser more like harasser. Do not waste my time and energy telling me about stuff that doesn't exist and for the love of all that is holy do not try and make it a cute little ARG puzzle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah, you must be one of the shareholders, keep up the pragmatic pressure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

are you lost?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Orion is coming?

Quick, get him a towel!

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