the comments are wild "yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern"
it should be, but he's been actively promoting the stuff
all the stock sites are. use case: an image that's almost perfect but you wanna tweak it
LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS
you should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about "Hooked"
the psychology of loot boxes?
yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900
the book is "Hooked" and it's Don't Build The Torment Nexus I'm Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of
AI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.
this sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, i've heard about it widely
I dabble in conversational AI for work
yeah this may be the wrong sub for you
these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.
ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those "open source" projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.
Here's a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI
I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they'll be making a mistake
dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool
so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn't all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.
around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it's about AI becoming superhuman
the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great
this is not debate club, per the sidebar
wonder if that's why they tried and failed to change it to "squiggle maximizing"