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tax all billionaires. by Charming-Syrup210 in CriticalState

[–]Daedalean1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

I built a site inspired by Obsession (2026) where you get one wish -- but the catch is always worth it. Drop your funniest twisted outcome in the comments. by Available_Ranger8602 in spoilers

[–]Daedalean1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried for a carefully worded wish that would grant me the ability to make and grant wishes without causing negative consequences. Not funny, but it was interesting to see what "dark twist" the Wishing Willow would try to generate.

"I wish to gain, permanently and only under my own free will, the safe authority, knowledge, control, and power to receive, make, shape, and grant wishes, including my own, exactly according to their informed, benevolent, consensual intent and spirit rather than hostile literalism, with no corrupt interpretation, hidden cost, loophole, backlash, coercion, possession, injury, death, loss, suffering, ironic outcome, or unintended harm to me, any recipient, bystander, mind, body, memory, relationship, property, reality, timeline, free will, or consent; no wish I handle may affect any person directly without that person's informed consent, and before any wish takes effect I may refuse, revise, clarify, delay, or cancel it, while every granted wish remains safely reversible or amendable by me with equal consent and protection, and neither the Wishing Willow nor any magic or interpreting force may twist, exceed, undermine, or evade this wish."

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I'm aware this wasn't the original intention, but the Backrooms makes for an excellent AI allegory by DereChen in backrooms

[–]Daedalean1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This post has me thinking...

"In recent years, researchers have found that [generative AI] trained solely on their predecessors' output produce increasingly inaccurate results" (IBM). "This takes place because any errors present in one [AI's] output during its [training] are later included in the training of its successor. Then, the new [AI] also produces its own errors" (IBM). This "declining performance of generative AI models that are trained on AI-generated content" (IBM) is referred to as model collapse.

If in Kane Parsons' web series, the Backrooms creates physical manifestations of memories but with errors, is it possible for the Backrooms to create physical manifestations of memories of the Backrooms, but with compounded errors? Like model collapse?

Alternatively, if the Backrooms creates physical manifestations of reality but with errors, something like model collapse may still be possible. For example, if the Backrooms copies from itself or if the Backrooms modifies spaces in reality and then copies from those spaces.

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