This is only one of a vast number of possible AI hellscapes. https://awful.systems/post/1061543
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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I just want to draw special attention to the reasoning here
BigTech, which critically depends on hyper-targeted ads for the lion share of its revenue, is incapable of offering AI model outputs that are plausible given the location / language of the request. The irony.
- request from Ljubljana using Slovenian => white people with high probability
- request from Nairobi using Swahili => black people with high probability
- request from Shenzhen using Mandarin => asian people with high probability
If a specific user is unhappy with the prevailing demographics of the city where they live, give them a few settings to customize their personal output to their heart's content.
Not gonna say anything in particular about that reasoning, just gonna draw attention to it
BigTech, which critically depends on hyper-targeted ads for the lion share of its revenue, is incapable of offering AI model outputs that are plausible given the location / language of the request.
Hardly surprising given how insistently the ad industry seems to be to show me ads for things I actively dislike or otherwise wildly missing with the products, services or attention seekers it tries to match to my interests and demographic profile.
If it is indeed true that AI companies just do naive search-and-replaces on the inputs to have more diversity in the outputs, that seems like a really crude and low-effort solution and also way more giving a shit than I would expect from an AI company.
Ultimately I think the main disagreements between me and hackernewses is twofold. I don't mind seeing black people, but I also don't take LLMs and ML image generation models seriously as a tool for anything other than shitposting and spam production.
Oh it's definitely how they do it lol, remember the "Person holding up a sign that says" trick.
Pixel art of an adult person female holding a text sign that says adult person chicken.
Wow, the AI is selfaware and is just fucking with those people for sport.
I would watch that World Series tbh. Or I guess it's more American Gladiator.
No, not the forcing values! :-O
Truly there is no worse violence than forcing people not to be racist. ~~The Turner Diaries~~ George Orwell warned us about this.