Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it

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Ok, the article starts off with how professors are indoctrinating students in Marxism, so, yeah, grain of salt for the rest of the article. But, if students are relying on computers and not learning, you are allowed to fail them. Done.
Yeah, that article is pretty questionable. The whole transhumanism thing seems like some spiritual warfare shit too.

Here's a thought though as someone who has been a GTA. If you (the author of the article) don't want your students using chatGPT, why not try explaining why they shouldn't, in the same way people have had to explain for decades now why students shouldn't use wikipedia for research because it's shallow and unreliable.

Like, politics aside, the entire attitude here is indicative of a pedagogical approach that frankly deserves to die. College students are adults, they're not children who you're conveniently allowed to use as a dating pool. Maybe spend less time worrying about eye contact (which is some ableist shit that bothers me for unrelated reasons) and more time explaining what you expect of them.
 
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Well, there's also that :


In sim, AI drone murders its operator because it deemed him an obstacle to its objective.

Well played, Stark.
Aaaand nope.


So the issue is still AI as the dangerous analytical, informational and social engineering tool it can be in people's hands, and not as a scifi rogue AI dangerous in its own hands.
 
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So the issue is still AI as the dangerous analytical, informational and social engineering tool it can be in people's hands, and not as a scifi rogue AI dangerous in its own hands.
The thing that made me skeptical was - how would the drone learn that killing its operator would prevent the operator from interfering with its goals? Also, how is the operator interfering with the goals if they are unable to do something as important as prevent the drone from killing them?

It implies a kind of general intelligence that does not exist yet. I think programs like ChatGPT inevitably make people anxious because it's a clear step towards that kind of general intelligence, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen soon, or even at all.
 
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Wow, whole video generation? I did not know that was a thing yet.
Tied to get a woman in a bikini jumping the Grand Canyon on a motor bike, the AI tried. Look at the leg on the left... looks to be in the wrong spot (above the left leg that looks to be in the correct spot. No handle bars and her forearms appear to have vanished.
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This reminds me of a very persuasive argument about why AI is going to stick around: it can be used for porn.

It makes sense, as the AI isn't going to be used to replace our current interactions with real people first; rather it's going to be used to do what we can't do or wouldn't dare to do with real people right now.
 
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This reminds me of a very persuasive argument about why AI is going to stick around: it can be used for porn.
Deepfakes were created by people who got tired of photoshopping celebrity porn and wanted the computer to do it for them.

(Ok, and in movies instead of still images)
 
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The ChatGPT lawyers are starting to fall out the clown car.

Follow up story:


“I heard about this new site, which I falsely assumed was, like, a super search engine,” Mr. Schwartz said.

Oh boy...
 

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Reading this now: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-death-of-the-professor-in-the-age-of-chat-gpt/
The Death of the Professor in the Age of Chat GPT
The rise of AI . . . and human extinction.
At a minimum, I think we face an interesting and challenging future.
I was reading some twat's article on LinkedIn or ResearchGate or something when looking for stuff about AI. He's written a piece explaining how you can use this whizzo piece of software to re-write your AI-generated university essay and make it more "human"-seeming to thwart plagiarism and AI-checkers. He goes on about he importance of being "authentic" and "original". Sure, he drops in some little comment somewhere about making sure you research the area properly, but essentially he's written a cheating guide for university students and pretty much can't be even be bothered disguising it. The c**t.

I've just reported a load of students for use of AI for disciplinary. I think each one of those took me about 1 hour to examine the evidence, prepare it for submission and write the paperwork, as if I didn't have better things to do. I doubt all of them will stick. I'm not sure any of them will stick, although I really think a few of them should.
 

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I was reading some twat's article on LinkedIn or ResearchGate or something when looking for stuff about AI. He's written a piece explaining how you can use this whizzo piece of software to re-write your AI-generated university essay and make it more "human"-seeming to thwart plagiarism and AI-checkers. He goes on about he importance of being "authentic" and "original". Sure, he drops in some little comment somewhere about making sure you research the area properly, but essentially he's written a cheating guide for university students and pretty much can't be even be bothered disguising it. The c**t.

I've just reported a load of students for use of AI for disciplinary. I think each one of those took me about 1 hour to examine the evidence, prepare it for submission and write the paperwork, as if I didn't have better things to do. I doubt all of them will stick. I'm not sure any of them will stick, although I really think a few of them should.
I'm shocked there is already a load of people you found using it to begin with.
A problem is it is only going to get harder to detect cheating. I can't believe this one student he spoke to was using it right in front of him.

Last night a friend was telling me that they were using this sort of thing and deep fakes to fool bank tellers into giving them passwords. They were able to put a stop to that. What happens as that sort of thing improves?

I figure it will. If Google doesn't do it, the Chinese or others will.
 

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Last night a friend was telling me that they were using this sort of thing and deep fakes to fool bank tellers into giving them passwords. They were able to put a stop to that. What happens as that sort of thing improves?
Part of me wonders whether this will actually drive us back to face to face interactions. AI and "deep fakes" may cause a huge loss of trust in online interaction, and the reaction might be to spur people to avoid it.
 

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I was reading some twat's article on LinkedIn or ResearchGate or something when looking for stuff about AI. He's written a piece explaining how you can use this whizzo piece of software to re-write your AI-generated university essay and make it more "human"-seeming to thwart plagiarism and AI-checkers. He goes on about he importance of being "authentic" and "original". Sure, he drops in some little comment somewhere about making sure you research the area properly, but essentially he's written a cheating guide for university students and pretty much can't be even be bothered disguising it. The c**t.

I've just reported a load of students for use of AI for disciplinary. I think each one of those took me about 1 hour to examine the evidence, prepare it for submission and write the paperwork, as if I didn't have better things to do. I doubt all of them will stick. I'm not sure any of them will stick, although I really think a few of them should.
Bro, why don't you do more in-class assignments and interviews? It seems to me teachers/professors don't teach as much as research, and regurgitate information. Also often they are part of professional orgs like doctors AMA(American Medical Association), dentists, or even teachers' unions that gatekeep the profession and oftentimes services from the poors, and the masses.
 
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Part of me wonders whether this will actually drive us back to face to face interactions. AI and "deep fakes" may cause a huge loss of trust in online interaction, and the reaction might be to spur people to avoid it.
I'm afraid the damage is done -- I've been online long enough to see how people behave anonymously so I can't really trust people in real life now. (This is an exaggeration, but I fully do avoid casual conversation these days because people are just so willing to dump their shitty views into the middle of a conversation about the weather or whatever.)
 

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(This is an exaggeration, but I fully do avoid casual conversation these days because people are just so willing to dump their shitty views into the middle of a conversation about the weather or whatever.)
I don't even want to know their non-shitty views, I'm tired of what politeness I can muster up being met with relentless exposition.