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AI needs high-quality human-generated data for training. That comes from the internet. But the internet is becoming increasingly overrun with AI-generated garbage. How screwed is future AI training? Absolutely fucked.

techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/model-collapse-scientists-warn-against-letting-ai-eat-its-own-tail/

>But the thing is, models gravitate toward the most common output. It won't give you a controversial snickerdoodle recipe but the most popular, ordinary one. And if you ask an image generator to make a picture of a dog, it won't give you a rare breed it only saw two pictures of in its training data; you'll probably get a golden retriever or a Lab.

>Now, combine these two things with the fact that the web is being overrun by AI-generated content and that new AI models are likely to be ingesting and training on that content. That means they're going to see a lot of goldens!

The paper in Nature is pretty technical.

nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

...and the supplementary content even more so, but in the Tech Crunch article there is an image that explains everything. In just four steps, the AI goes from a fairly representative idea of dogs to complete garbage.

static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-024-07566-y/MediaObjects/41586_2024_7566_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
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The past couple of weeks have truly been historic. Take a moment and just consider some of the major events that we have witnessed, bombshell after bombshell...
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/3-major-bombshells-just-dropped-that-everybody-should-be-talking-about-right-now.html
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In September the United Nations’ 79th General Assembly will host the highly-anticipated “Summit of the Future” where nations will sign the “Pact of the Future”, representing a major step towards the creation of a world government.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/the-un-will-sign-the-pact-of-the-future-in-60-days-heres-why-it-matters.html
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Is the President a King in Disguise? The Anti-Federalist Argument
During the debates over the ratification of the Constitution, Antifederalists repeatedly warned that the President would become like a king - and the worst kind of a king - an elected one.

Path to Liberty: July 24, 2024 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1662912888982999054
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@djsumdog @HunDriverWidow
signal certainly checks all boxes!

- guru type moxie

- who shittalks everything else, especially federated services

- signal actively works against 3rd party clients

- server side is running "some version"

- metadata handling is based on "trust us ™️"

- giant money black hole

- required phone number forever

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@djsumdog @HunDriverWidow Running a Traceroute on one of their servers passes through Amazon and Microsoft on the way there, just saying
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@Hyolobrika There have been a number of cases, especially recently, where something was labeled "misinformation" and suppressed which later turned out to be true. You can't trust anyone with the power to censor speech, because they'll censor anything they don't like, whether it's true or not. Unfortunately this means enabling people to tell lies, but well, that's the price of also getting to hear the truth.

I'm wondering if you can do something similar but for source code. The only thing I can think of is to insert code comments that give the wrong description of what an algorithm does, but by doing that, you are doing a disservice to actual humans who read your code.

But I guess it doesn't really matter, because from what I am told and from my own experience using LLMs, they are actually performing even worse at writing code than they have been before. I still can't get them to write anything more complex than a Breakout clone and even then, the resulting code has some major bugs.

corbettreport.com/poisoning-yo

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Money creation is an immaculate scam that puts nearly everyone into slavery. They can print enough money to make real goods unobtainable for anyone who is unwilling to sign a slave contract to buy them, then the slavery allows them to maintain value of the money they printed.

Anyone holding the appreciating asset is strongly dissuaded from selling it by vicious capital gains tax treatment - contrived by these same thieves.
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New law: Any activity which is deemed "obviously unconstitutional" by SCOTUS is a death sentence for the public official who ordered it.
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