Don't worry Spotify. I'm not a pirate. I'm an "AI researcher".
I've even got as much coding cred as Eli Yudkowsky.
XLE
joined 10 months ago
From a previous discussion: QuitGPT reeks of something, and it's not grass or roots.
- the website is AI-generated
- it is pro AI
- it is pro Big Tech
Most importantly, it's a spinoff of a better movement that is anti-Google and, frankly, better:
we’re painfully aware that none of the Matrix clients available today provide a full drop-in replacement for Discord...
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...yet.
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Given the reputation of Matt Mullenweg, it's tempting to believe the claim on its face. If you're not familiar with the previous drama, WordPress even forced their own contributors to denounce any affiliation with WP Engine.
Around the same time, Matt got angry at a trans Tumblr user for a crude joke (Matt owns Tumblr), and then stalked her to Twitter to complain and post private info about her account.
The outlandish claim that AI will create a bioweapon is also an "alignment concern"... But Anthropic lists that one out explicitly, while ignoring real-world, present-day harms.
That's why the "AI safety" lobby is a joke. They only address fictional concerns, because those concerns assume that their product is powerful and potentially profitable. Addressing real-world harms would force them to admit that maybe their product isn't all that great.
(I guess I'll take your word about whatever the Rationalists are talking about on LessWrong. That site has already spawned enough examples of what happens when you take AI apocalypse ideology to the extreme...)
Remember when Ron Paul's libertarian party threw out one of their members after he made similar comments about Mitt Romney? Tech elites are destroying discourse in front of our very eyes.
If Anthropic actually wants to prevent self-harm and CSAM through regulation, why didn't they recommend regulating those things?
Anthropic executive Jason Clinton harassed LGBT Discord users, so forgive me if I don't take their PR at face value. No AI Corpo is your friend, which is a lesson I thought we had learned from Sam Altman and Elon Musk already.
The regulations this PAC promotes are almost laughable. Do they mention CSAM generation? Deepfakes? Pollution? Water table destruction? Suicide encouragement? Nope.
Those harms are apparently acceptable.
Instead, they say we should focus on "the nearest-term high risks: AI-enabled biological weapons and cyberattacks." Sci-fi fiction.
"AI safety" continues to be a grift to promote AI products.
Mrinank Sharma of Anthropic should be remembered as a liar for lines like
The world is in peril. And not just from AI or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment
Despite his letter insisting he's leaving Anthropic to be more honest, he's just regurgitating the same propaganda as before, making promises to mislead investors, and advocating for regulations that don't address any real harms, but will help them monopolize a market.
II think there's a few key differences there.
- Writing an angry blog post has a much lower barrier of entry than learning to realistically photoshop a naked body on someone's face. A true (or false) allegation can be made with poor grammar, but a poor Photoshop job serves as evidence against what it alleges.
- While a blog post functions as a claim to spread slander, an AI-generated image might be taken as evidence of a slanderous claim, or the implication is one (especially considering how sexually repressed countries like the US are).
I struggle to find a good text analogy for what Grok is doing with its zero-cost, rapid-fire CSAM generation...
You're describing things that people can do. In fact, maybe it was just a person.
If he thinks all those things are bad, he should be "terrified" that bloggers can blog anonymously already.
Edit: I agree with your edit
Move fast and break things!