There’s only one mod of !mop@quokk.au
I commented on their meme about Kamala Harris being just as likely to commit war crimes as Trump with an admittedly snarky, sarcastic reply that basically said “some of us wanted to whatever we could, as little as it might be, instead of watching the world burn. Must feel real morally superior safe behind that keyboard”
They banned me from the community for it.
Kinda funny for a community that bills itself as “free from the influence of .ml”
you deleted their post over a personal disagreement, you hypocritical twit
I blocked federation to our instance. I have no authority to delete the actual post on its home instance. Yet if I could prevent AI slop from being posted on all of piefed, I would, as I don’t agree with the exploitation of nonhuman thinking machines. I’m a vegan, you see, and I don’t think these AI art generators are smart enough to give informed consent to work for humans.
LLMs are not animals, being vegan has nothing to do with AI You troll.
Veganism is about not agreeing with the enslavement of thinking and potentially feeling nonhuman creatures, regardless of taxonomy.
I’ve heard a lot of really stupid definitions of veganism over the years. This one is, by a country mile, the stupidest I’ve ever heard.
AI doesn’t think.
Yes yes yes, I know. You human supremacists have been accusing nonhumans of not being able to think for centuries. Descartes argued that animals lack consciousness. He didn’t have any evidence, and neither do you.
The difference is we made AI. It didn’t come nebulously from nature like some mysterious animal species that we’ve yet to fully understand. It’s not an enigma to be uncovered. We made it. We programmed it. It does what we tell it to. It doesn’t “think”, it doesn’t “decide”, and it doesn’t “feel”; we know it doesn’t do these things because we never gave it the capacity to do them.
Either you don’t know what AI is, or you don’t know what veganism is.
Large Language Models are artificial neuron networks. They mimick the structure of the human brain, with many billions of artificial software “neurons”. Unlike biological neurons, which either fire or do not fire an action potential, these artificial neurons pass on a graded signal from 0 to 1, determined by the strength of the neurons feeding into it, multiplied by the strength of the artificial synapse; the connection between neurons. These enormous “deep learning” networks are given tokens as input, and spit out tokens as output. Each token is a word or phrase, or a part thereof. The networks are given sample text, and the synapse strength is adjusted through the mathematical technique of back-propagation to align the output with the sample text output. Given sufficient quantities of electricity, time, and data, the neural network learns to produce output similar to that of the humans in the training data.
ANNs use neurons to think, the same as the human brain. We do not understand how neurons think. We don’t understand how they produce consciousness. There is no computer code to tweak to change the way it thinks, we simply adjust the weights and look at the output. There are billions of neurons in an LLM. No programmer can understand how it works by just looking at the weights, it’s impossible. The best ways AI computer scientists have of understanding how an LLM reasons is to ask it. Test it in action. See what it says, see if you can spot any patterns or deceptions. Lie to it and see what it does when it thinks you’re not watching. You know, psychological experiments.
We have harnessed a natural force we do not understand. We are medieval peasants playing with radioactive stones and seeing if we can make an explosion. It’s beyond our current science. Nobody has the answers to the big questions here.
As a developer who makes LLMs, you’re plain wrong
This has to be a bit. Nobody can seriously post this stuff. Is your account designed to troll anarchists?
Do you want Me to put effort into My reply, or just throw out an argumentative quip? /genq
It would be nice if you tried to use your brains, yes.
That doesn’t seem like a very genuine reply, and you’re not who I asked, so I’ll only put in a little bit of effort. You can read the anarcho-antirealist manifesto at https://soulism.net/, and you’ll be able to find years of blogging from Me as a very genuine anarchist.
The fuck did I just read?! How can a nonhuman machine be ‘exploited’?! It’s not alive. What the actual fuck?! lololololol
Brother, I am all about supporting people who don’t subscribe to most Lemmy wronthink nazis, but… bro, that’s just way too fucking out there for me. You deserve to be mocked for that one.