That's a terrifying story. I'm happy it seems to have worked out ok.
gerikson
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I'm not familiar with Character.ai. Is their business model that they take famous fictional characters, force feed their dialog into LLMs, then offer these LLMs as personalized chatbots?
The way things are going, KnowYourMeme will be the only reputable journalistic outlet in a few years.
Now construct the rest of the fucking androwl
A fertility doctor here in Sweden took sperm from men who were undergoing investigations for infertiliy and used it as donor sperm.
Imagine their surprise when decades later they found out they had kids.
Not sure why he chose those particular samples, maybe all he had available.
Must thinks he's Case but he's actually Josef Virek only without the class.
Side note, the Wiki page for Count Zero is a trainwreck
Trump has absolutely no principles or beliefs other than those that profit him.
how about we aim for no eugenics, not just the least objectionable sort
Dude is about 3 years too late but I guess it's always 8 o'clock in the outrage store.
For reference, HN went wild on this submission from a pretty obvious 4chan troll (the self-described "Black developer" just so happened to include references to a Stormfront post (since removed)):
I thinkt it's pretty well-lknown that Spotify got all its initial music from Oink. They moved fast, got dominant, and were able to present the record labels with a big audience prepared to pay for streaming music. The labels quickly ensured they'd get the lion's share of that revenue.
OpenAI and friends tried the same thing - scrape everything, build AGI, reap the rewards. Except it didn't work, and they're in a much worse position morally. Even if they can get a judgement that what they're doing is legal, it will cost them a lot in litigation fees, coupled with the public perception that these culture vampires are ripping off the poor honest author. Not a good place to be in.
In this case it sounded like a bunch of amoral assholes on 4chan tried to trick a vulnerable individual to kill themselves. A religion that operated like that would not be able to sustain itself and spread.