These vulnerabilities were present the entire time, and the cost of exploiting them is dropping toward zero. You no longer need to stick out, to be targeted. There doesn’t have to be a specific reason.

Don’t put infrastructure on the network without a damn good reason and an off switch.

Same shit’s gonna happen to Hollywood. Actors and editors just inherited the Earth, now that you can change any footage to look like anything. That’s not gonna fix a Niel Breen film. But if you’ve got good angles of decent actors on you-get-the-idea sets, all of that can take several hundred million dollars worth of CGI, on the cheap, overnight.

Admittedly I predicted this several entire years ago, expecting it would start within six months. Video tech took a while to get less screwy.

At this point - especially with this commentary - the datacenter build-up seems like market manipulation. Like how hyper-scaling keeps competition scarce.

Money.

I tried securing my ass, but my browser got stuck.

ass.golf

Because that’s all the Fediverse contains.

In this thread, there’s people reposting “never slop” doodles, performing ingroup loyalty over thought-terminating cliches. All my efforts to engage with that have made clear they mean never use any AI for anything ever, and then they repeat their chants as empty signalling, or use one of their made-up slurs for anyone who’s not virulently against all forms of spicy autocomplete.

There’s entire communities for that attitude. Entire instances. It’s immediately the dominant tone in any discussion of companies using AI for literally anything. Even if the AI content was removed before a game launched, the fact it was there has indelibly stained the publisher’s whole catalog, past and future.

Meanwhile the opposition to that is just… would you relax, please? There’s no “boosters” on this service. Nobody’s snorting a line and raving about basilisks. Vanishingly few dinguses have sneered ‘the future is now, old man!’ and they find zero support. Even measured responses to shrill absolutes begin ‘now I hate AI as much as the next person, buuut.’

Pro-AI on Lemmy means anything short of kneejerk opposition, on questions like ‘can generated images ever be art.’ Everyone suddenly developed a crystal clear philosophy on the nature of beauty. Those philosophies don’t agree, but the people do, which is… indicative. Especially when you discuss those claims seriously, and any illustrative counterexamples are treated as a personal attack.

Recently someone repeated claims that LLMs cause instant cognitive impairment, and I pointed to the researchers behind the study begging people to stop saying that. Do you want to guess how that went? It wasn’t a rational exchange of comparably reasonable positions… and the little numbers showed the crowd was not on my side. Or the researchers’ side. They were perfectly happy with their tabloid narrative, thank you very much.

Nobody hates Javascript like people who use Javascript.

It’s funny how both anti-AI and pro-AI folks think they’re the one in the middle. But the anti-AI crowd is proclaiming that any use is the devil!, and one drop means the whole project is forever worthless, and ten minutes will make your brain dribble out your ears… while the pro-AI crowd just says it’s probably fine. Not miraculous. Flawed and suspect. Local would be better. Basically would you please just relax about the chatbot, and condemn companies doing mass layoffs for any reason?

When even Cory Doctorow is going ‘LLMs have problems, but here’s how I use them,’ pack it in. This fight is over.