Carl Bergstrom notes a publicity stunt by Anthropic:
“The AI Grad Student”: A Harvard professor describes working with Claude.
Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: “It faked results, hoping I wouldn’t notice.”
But he ends the essay with “Now I’m doing 100% of my research with LLMs”.
Am I losing my mind?
Hang around for the “trust me bro, I saw it on YouTube” guy in the comments.
Carl Bergstrom notes a publicity stunt by Anthropic:
“The AI Grad Student”: A Harvard professor describes working with Claude.
Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: “It faked results, hoping I wouldn’t notice.”
But he ends the essay with “Now I’m doing 100% of my research with LLMs”.
Am I losing my mind?
Hang around for the “trust me bro, I saw it on YouTube” guy in the comments.
44 comments in support, 2 in opposition, discussion closed early under the “there’s a snowball’s chance in Hell of the situation changing from here” clause:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
Regarding a project to translate several thousand ancient letters:
So, um… this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination.
Who the balls is the market for an AI-glazing “documentary”? The more one likes the technology, the shorter one’s attention span.
The AI-as-excuse layoffs have come for Meta:
wait, I totally had something for this… TERF AI-land
From the second link:
Aella is someone with whom I’ve been on friendly terms for some years now; though we have our — sometimes rather extreme — differences, and though I think that she is probably evil, I nonetheless have valued my conversations with her, and would love (though I am not optimistic) to see an outcome to this local situation that allowed us to keep talking from time to time.
whaaaaa
[Effective Altruism] was originally applied to initiatives like raising money for mosquito netting, but now includes figures like Johnson, who has reframed his blood experiments as a product of his own generosity, set to cure humanity of its greatest ill: death itself.
People keep saying this, so it’s good to have a reminder that the weirdos (derogatory) were there all along.
I am retrospectively disturbed by how well “I really came in a fluffer that time” slots into Dorothy Parker’s flow.
A skilled, centaur-configured programmer
This is like reading Yud mumbling about “Shoggoths”. It’s giving knight errant, organ-meat eater, Byronic hero, Haplogroup Rlb.
I was not ready
Chris Stokel-Walker at Fast Company reports:
High-level information about the private work of students and staff using ChatGPT Edu at several universities can be viewed by thousands of colleagues across their institutions due to a misunderstanding of what is being shared, according to a University of Oxford researcher who identified the issue.
The problem affects Codex Cloud Environments in ChatGPT Edu and exposes the names and some metadata associated with the public and private GitHub repositories that users within a university have connected to their ChatGPT Edu accounts. […] “Anyone at the university, or a large number of people at least—including me—can see a number of projects [people have] been working on with ChatGPT,” says Luc Rocher, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, who identified the issue and raised it with both the University of Oxford and OpenAI through responsible disclosure. He later approached Fast Company after what he felt was an inadequate response from both.
Just one of many reasons that the mere existence of “ChatGPT Edu” means that many people need to be tased in the nads
I’m suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone’s name can be used for commercial purposes.
Man, I wish I had enough money to fuck around with nonprofit shenanigans
Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
Hypothesis: When he wrote Surreal Numbers, Knuth was a poet and thus unknowingly of the Devil’s party.
more like requie-SCAT, am i right