#nollm — Public Fediverse posts

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.

I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.

You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.

So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.

And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?

I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?

#NoAI #NoLLM

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

This is sad #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm #runbsd #linux

Thinking about the latest claims from the LLM camp, especially from one ex-Anthropic employee…

There are two mutually-exclusive possibilities.

1. They are right, nasty civilisation-destroying LLMs want us for lunch and we've got until 2030 before civilisation as we know it, ends.
2. This is another media stunt… like the time when agents supposedly "hacked" each-other (OpenAI and Anthropic a few months back)… or when they supposedly became "sentient" (Blake Lemoine's claim that got him sacked from Google back in 2022)

Next year I'll be unemployed. I've got enough money in the war-chest to survive, especially if I'm careful about what I spend money on. Definitely enough to last 3 years.

The job market is not looking good for an ethical coding job here in Brisbane… and while I could train to do data cabling or electrical work (which can't be automated by a LLM), no one is going to hire a mid-aged apprentice who doesn't drive.

Anything that can be done from home, is potentially something that some C-suite manager will think can be automated with a LLM, so those jobs are no longer safe.

Better I just up-skill myself at my own pace… Brush up on my C++, maybe learn some Rust… whatever. Do stuff that makes me happy. If option 1 is indeed true, I'll have spent 3 years in effective "retirement" doing things that bring me joy. If it's option 2, then those things have probably kept my skills sharp enough to be competitive against those who relied on LLMs and are now struggling with doing it "the old way".

#NoLLM (edit: my maths was off)

@bibliolater

The bubble does what every bubble wants to do: it breaches all limits of sanity. The laws of phyiscs and the laws of logic all are being suspended. Or so it seems, until the inevitable return to reality. In the meantime, valuable resources worth trillions of dollars are being misdirected. What a collosal waste.

Tulips at least did not material harm. Come back, Tulip Mania.

#noAI #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption #bubbles #nvidia #TulipMania

@lrhodes

Quite incredible.

OUP World Classics brings out a new translation of Proust's La Prisonnière, and it turns out that the translator (Andrew Rothwell) assembled his copy from fragments provided to him by a genAI tool. And he couldn'd even be bothered to tell the editor about it! The Way We Live Now.

Painfully strong Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibes. Who hasn't been turned around yet?

(Thank you for the link to the LitHub essay. An excellent piece of writing and nuanced reflection by Bryan Charles.)

#Proust #BryanCharles #AndrewRothwell #translation #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption

yt-dlp has now added an explicit "No AI / No LLM policy" notice to their repo and Contributing guidelines.

The opening paragraph:

This project strictly forbids the usage of LLMs, agents, or any other AI tools for any kind of contribution.

Full text:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/.NO_AI/README.md

Complete set of files modified:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/249aa5d6e667308fbf95ae5cfb40eba8177a802c

#noAi #nollm #fuckai #ytdlp #youtube #github

If you have a website without AI-slop content, have you considered joining @david's **human-made web ring**?

:doge: https://human-made.site/

#NoAI #NoLLM #FckAI #FuckLLMs #HumanMade #HumanMadeWebRing #SelfHosting

Curious, isn't it, Watson, how the Duke's messages have lost all meaning since he boarded the Arcadia. They appear normal at first reading, but when you study them more closely, they turn out to be gibberish. It is clear that the Duke has been abducted. We are dealing with a very dangerous enemy, Watson.

Holmes took a deep puff from his meerschaum and looked at me through half-closed eyes.

What email system do they use on the Arcadia, I asked.

Oh Watson, what on Earth ..., they use Outlook, like everybody else. Always following the wrong trail, Watson, always on the wrong trail. Focus on the essentials, Watson, leave the bookkeeping to Lestrade.

Outlook, I asked, with Copilot enabled?

Ah, said Holmes after a long pause, putting his pipe down.

#SherlockHolmes #DoctorWatson #noAI #noLLM #noOutlook