It's not ChatGPT's fault, it's the fault of the people who let her have access to this stuff. But that in turn is related to the issue of privacy vs culpability vs freedom. It's problematic to snoop on people, and we want to let people do what they want insofar as that's feasible (not harming others is one common standard which is useful) but do we or don't we share blame when we enable harm?

And so I'm going to say of course we do, if we could have known we were causing the harm, and since the operators of these public LLMs are using the input from users as training information they are on some level examining it, and I don't think using only automated methods to do that absolves them of some consequent responsibility. They're exploiting an emotional addiction and harming another for their own benefit, they know they are doing it hypothetically — and to the extent that they are ignorant of their impact, that ignorance is willful.

Stupid people have smart children and vice versa, so it's not clear that you can breed your way out of this problem. Certainly we cannot evolve more intelligence faster than the AI industry can invent more stupidity.

It's unclear how we can make people understand at a useful level that the illusion of intelligence does not equal intelligence. This has been a problem even with actual human output, why would people suddenly be able to tell the difference when they are talking to software?

I don't see why not. No jokes about token ring here, just that many kinds of people murder people.

Putting aside the rest of your comment here,

There is such a plan. Whether it can succeed is another question. This is a legitimate and worrying concern. It's a shame you chose to pose it as you did. I think this should be thought about more anyway, though.

So it was "space gas"?

Why does this sound familiar? ;)

I found the latest gemma to be pretty good at poetry. It produced some pretty satisfying e.e. Cummins [sic] poems for me while all other LLMs failed badly.

It would certainly be a schema failure, but if they had a bunch of customers (or customers' licenses, but they said "to retrieve customer information" and not "...license information") in some kind of group and overused ON DELETE CASCADE, I could see it happening. As you say, it would make no sense to use that feature for such a grouping (which might be deleted someday) because you would be creating a situation where you could cause a failure like this...

No. Doing this is orthogonal to what it's trained on. Even if you trained AI only on exceptional output which was all created by software it would still hallucinate things that don't exist. This is a fundamental limit to the technology and until it's addressed somehow (whether stopping it, making it recognize it and recalculate, or something else — whatever solution actually is feasible) even feeding it 100% high-quality input will still result in hallucinatory output.

I use LLMs for my own amusement, they are useful for that.

I have little to no visual memory so I struggle to draw even simple things. I can do drafting-style sketches OK because they are logical, but just remembering the shape of a curve even between looking at the thing and looking at the paper is difficult. So I use AI to generate images and feel zero remorse about it, since it lets me do something I cannot otherwise do — envision a concept I can imagine, but cannot picture.

For answering questions, I find that they are good only for pointing me in a direction for additional research, because you cannot trust what they say. I knew this before actually trying to get them to help me find out facts, because I asked them about things I knew about and they spat out a mixture of accurate information and absolutely invented bullshit that looks like a correct explanation but actually bears only a passing resemblance to reality. It cites laws and rules that don't exist, and it makes up entire concepts which it will never mention again unless you ask specifically, then it has a roughly 50/50 chance of either inventing some bullshit background for the fake thing or explaining that it's not a thing without irony.

Oh yeah, I didn't think you did, no need for apologies. But my statement stands, I'm not super duper well versed in every X extension, but I can still see clear and valid arguments for maintaining X instead of throwing it away. There are clearly things that need improvement, for example compositors should probably be doing color management for applications. It's dumb that applications have to handle it themselves.

I ran X on a 3/260, I did upgrade it to a 4/260 but it wasn't because of X, it was just slow in general. I also had a SLC which I used with Xkernel, hosted from a 486 running Linux. Looking now I see it was 20 MHz, but I did have only a 4MB memory module in it. I also ran X on a 386DX25 with 8MB RAM, and Slackware. I had a really snazzy 1MB Trident SVGA card :)

Yes, you do. You care very much about DEI. That's why you're bitching about here. Conversely, he's the one who brought DEI into the conversation, so go cry to him. Leave me the fuck out of your whining.

I have this problem in most cars, but it's because I am very tall, and most of the height is in my trunk. My arms are not especially long, so if the column isn't telescoping I generally have to sit pretty well upright to have decent ergonomics. And you also want to be sitting upright for the lap belt to work properly, if you're laid back you have the submarining problem.

If I wanted to use software with other licenses, I have other options. Some people even buy proprietary software!

I see you haven't read the readme on the repo.

I'd be lying if I said I understood all of it, but then I never claimed it had to be thrown away. What I understand is that I've been using X11 for decades, and programs I was using when I started using it will still work with it. And I've used it on machines with only megabytes and megahertz, and not too many of either. The least maybe had 4MB and 16MHz? And even that could run R5.

Maybe Wayland will make sense eventually, I don't know. It hasn't worked well for me. It also has dumb intentional limitations that make me think it's always going to be a PITA until it gets forked, so there's likely substantial chaos ahead for it before it gets good.

When people complain about DEI they are usually complaining that they are not being permitted to act like a butthole.

I use his license and software which comes under his license by choice because I agree with his views and the results are good, which is one reason I agree with them.