oh hey its that reoccurring thought I have about the “AI Safety” criti-hype popping back into my head

Expanding on that, part of me feels Altman is gonna find all the rhetoric he made about “AI doom” being used against him in the future - man’s given the true believers reason to believe he’d commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck.

Hell, the true believers who made this pretty explicitly pointed out Altman’s made arguing for regulation a lot easier:

Not a sneer, but Kendrick Ed Zitron just dropped.

Its damn good as usual, with Zitron taking aim at the current state of SaaS and tying it into his previous sneers on AI.

Sam Altman says taking psychedelics ‘significantly changed’ his mindset

Altman being a druggie would go some way to explaining his utter disconnect from reality and utter lack of moral fibre

Don’t do drugs, they’ll turn you into Sam Altman and everyone will hate you

Not a sneer, but a pretty solid piece on the slop-nami: Drowning in Slop, by Max Read

Not a sneer, but some truly beautiful karma:

Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones’ Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families

babe wake up Michael Bay is going off

And less time than her partner-in-crime, who went out of his way to show a complete lack of remorse and a strong willingness to reoffend, all whilst lying out his ass to basically everyone.

Honestly, SBF’s antics probably helped make Ellison look like her role in this was much smaller than it actually was

oh yeah she got two years’ jail for her part in stealing eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

A slap on the wrist compared to Sam Bankman-Fried’s twenty-five years. Turns out working with the feds, admitting your guilt and knowing when to fold 'em are pretty important when karma finally catches up with you.

I mean, it’s the same company that didn’t realize that half its traffic was porn, so it’s on brand

Granted, Apple’s banhammer forced Tumblr’s hand on that front (though Tumblr’s complete failure on moderation did give Apple that golden opportunity).

(The whole debacle did lead to Newgrounds getting hit by two separate waves of new users - a minor wave in November after the NSFW purges kicked in, then a major wave in December after the porn ban was officially announced. I have nothing more to add, I think it was pretty funny Tumblr shat the bed that hard)

Mullenweg’s the same guy who publicly harassed a random transwoman on Tumblr and had a general meltdown to the point where Tumblr staff had to distance himself from him, so I’m not shocked.

(That its Tumblr is the only thing that shocks me - you’d think he’d have realised its queer-friendly rep was one of the main things going for it)

a16z anime blog post

Two nukes weren’t enough

Boy named after Star Wars character denied passport due to copyright infringement

So you’re saying that they’ve got books worth at least a grand which their owners are literally using to flaunt their wealth?

I’m legally obligated to say stealing is legally and morally wrong buuuuuuuut

This reminded me of that prediction I made w.r.t the “AI Doom” criti-hype (and touched on after SB 1047 popped up) back when OpenAI was gunning (heh) for DoD dollars.

Personally, I suspect that this might provide another case of “AI doom” becoming a double-edged sword for the AI industry. What can be dismissed as a simple error on their products’ parts gets potentially a lot more problematic to deal with when a vocal minority is primed to find malice where none exists.

Pulling out a pretty solid Tweet @ai_shame showed me:

To pull out a point I’ve been hammering since Baldur Bjarnason talked about AI’s public image, I fully anticipate tech’s reputation cratering once the AI bubble bursts. Precisely how the public will view the tech industry at large in the aftermath I don’t know, but I’d put good money on them being broadly hostile to it.

Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

Its worse for me - I’ve got a metric shitload of emails on Proton. Thankfully, I’m not using them for anything particularly important.

Why do I get the feeling we’re gonna see a colossal tech crash

Yes.

If this gets CUDA open-sourced, I will be one very happy man.