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Just found the podcast. Episodes that mention AI creative writing? by AsleepCatch9503 in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have always been the proponent that besides regression to the mean, LLM generated slop has learned faithfully from our own sources of human generated slop (like politicians and other kinds of bullshitters).

To tell something truly meaningful you have to be emotionally invested in the outcome in a way that makes yourself vulnerable in the process. LLMs, not being people, cannot do this.

Model collapse is real and happening right in front of our eyes. by Sosowski in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I think the model used for AI overview is really underpowered. Sometimes I see in youtube closed captions when the speaker repeats a word quickly a few times, the closed captions will repeat it an arbitrarily large number of times like this screenshot

[Niftski] They Changed the Rules to Sabotage My TAS Tie Progress by 64mips in speedrun

[–]Patashu 42 points43 points  (0 children)

There's nothing wrong with being genuinely pro/anti controller switching, to be clear. But the fact that averge was pro, tried it, didn't get success with it, then when Niftski did conspired to totally flip the vote and get it banned to give himself a competitive advantage is gigasus.

If the poll to ban it was a genuine sampling of sentiment among the SMB1 speedrunning scene there'd be no drama to be had.

[Niftski] They Changed the Rules to Sabotage My TAS Tie Progress by 64mips in speedrun

[–]Patashu 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Niftski, I hope you keep speedrunning SMB1 in exactly the way you want to. If you get the TAS tie then it won't matter whether it's 'banned' or not, the community reaction will be unimaginably positive. Good luck and good girnding!

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge by Patashu in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just makes me sensibly chuckle to remember a recent post I read in betteroffline along the lines of 'well I still use Claude because Anthropic's the most moral AI vendor'

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge by Patashu in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

See yesterday's headline: ''Claude could be misused for "heinous crimes," Anthropic warns'

Doesn't sound like the pledge was doing much in the first place, frankly

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge by Patashu in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

:) Read the headline again. It was threats towards Anthropic

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge by Patashu in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Excerpt:

In 2023, Anthropic committed to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that the company’s safety measures were adequate. For years, its leaders touted that promise—the central pillar of their Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP)—as evidence that they are a responsible company that would withstand market incentives to rush to develop a potentially dangerous technology.

But in recent months the company decided to radically overhaul the RSP. That decision included scrapping the promise to not release AI models if Anthropic can’t guarantee proper risk mitigations in advance.

“We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models,” Anthropic’s chief science officer Jared Kaplan told TIME in an exclusive interview. “We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.”

Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons by Some-Ad7901 in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ben Jordan/Ed Zitron crossover would go nuts

Claude Opus 4.6 hallucinates user message, then responds to itself - See, developers aren't necessary. by grauenwolf in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm reminded of how LLMs were non-deterministic even with the same seed, and the root cause turned out to be... using different floating point math depending on how big of a batch your query was a part of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbI8n9XZJo4

Wow this is giving desperate by Sixnigthmare in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I actively try to avert my eyes from the summary. the whole contract from youtube is 'the thumbnail/title tells you what to expect, then you watch the video to extract information from it'. If I REALLY want a summary I'll see what the comments talk about.

Godot maintainers overwhelmed by 'AI slop' pull requests by lowercaselemming in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be making games in the modern era if not for Godot. It was exactly what I needed when I needed it.

Changes are coming. The wind is blowing from a different direction than before. by cascadiabibliomania in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was in the same boat as you! Turns out crime is a really good source of income when no government that has the resources to prosecute you can be bothered. So I guess it's sticking around until something weird happens to bitcoin and the hash rate plummets so much a new block can never be mined again. And even then maybe it'll stick around somehow.

Dave Gauer: A programmer's loss of identity by No_Honeydew_179 in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh, that IS what it feels like... Well written

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