we saw, but did not catch in time, a post about an, iirc, harvard study showing that claude's boost to productivity is exactly 0 for the reasons you'd expect, can someone link us to the toot / study?
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchmask-militant anti-LLM-absolutist non-white mostly-coyote genderterrorist // casually self-hosts our own email from our house // plural, not an entire SRE org // kween of the ambiguous parse // used to work at the bird site once upon a time // eventually disassembles everything xe touches // they them // xe xer
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/117349757629570776
it has no backing in reality. it is only ever right by coincidence because it generates wrong answers by the exact same process. it is inherently unsafe to use because it will generate misinformation and falsehoods because it has no backing in reality, it just outputs probable text. it has no other meaningful use that cannot be better accomplished without it
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really and truly tired of seeing people go "the fascist text machine from the megacorps is bad, but i can see a future where a local version of the fascist text machine can be useful" because IT'S STILL THE FASCIST TEXT MACHINE WHEN YOU RUN IT LOCALLY
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@mos_8502@studio8502.ca the problem here is that the LLM is an inherently fascist edifice and can only be used to antisocial ends. "local" and "open weight" models are built from the same exploitation and fascist mindset as the commercial ones.
weve had some questions about how we make our #neverslop images and for reference we are using:
qemu-emulated mac os 9photoshop 7kai's power toolslayer effectsbong rips
(the bong rips are optional, and if you're more comfortable with windows that's an option too)
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@dougcoulson/117343406521143514
folks is it good when the court sends you a document saying
It takes almost no skill and little time to generate AI slop. When a
lawyer files such slop, the lawyer violates the duty to “exercise independent professional judgment.”
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Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/judges-florida-court-warn-ai-law-slop-threatening-judicial
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like, stop trying to make leftslop happen. it's not gonna fuckin happen
happy covid-spread season, love to see all the smiling unmasked travelers going around spewing a viral miasma
debouncing circuit?
wrong. denouncing circuit
we want a club comprised entirely of members who would never be members of a club
folks
it is fuckening dire out there
"WebP"? you mean "AOL ART 2.0"?
octal tristate buffer would be a lovely name for a young woman
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @pinskia@hachyderm.io Ada has the same problem to us as all the other Pascal-ish languages: every neat idea they have is drowned in the kind of syntax that could only be truly loved by a european cis male. like, we get that this is because of its heritage as a pedagogic language by and for european cis men, but you can also imagine why we would simply not vibe with that, ya know?
COYOT NOISE
your "open weight models" are of the same design and root of exploitation as the fascist text machine and do not absolve you from slop
sum type? wrong
scum type
as a coyote we are unfit for human consumption
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@aisling@critters.gay you...rmom.
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@inherentlee@flipping.rocks good luck
google is sending us multiple copies of our DMARC reports and y'know, it never used to do that.
luckily our client dedupes them, but christ, get a fucking grip
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@charliejane@wandering.shop probably because he got caught by a man who learned how to catch fish
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@ramsey@phpc.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange and what good are they for doing anything other than churning out slop? the entire conception of the LLM is a fascist device.
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@pgl@infosec.exchange incredible that you're asking for volunteers to remediate your slop for you, when you could have simply not used slop to begin with
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/117349757629570776
"i can see a future where the digitally automated scab will help the union" ass shit
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really and truly tired of seeing people go "the fascist text machine from the megacorps is bad, but i can see a future where a local version of the fascist text machine can be useful" because IT'S STILL THE FASCIST TEXT MACHINE WHEN YOU RUN IT LOCALLY
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@wouter@pleroma.debian.social because the promise of open source is inherently that the code is a communal asset, and the slopbot is strip-mining the commons for the enrichment of fascists. get your head on straight.
awoute
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@decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com certainly the code shat out isn't fragile and brittle garbage that doesn't work outside of the narrow conditions of the test, that would never be the case
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@petrillic@hachyderm.io too little fuzz factor
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@discatte@digipres.club emulated macos, photoshop 7, kai's power tools, layer manipulations, bong rips
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@tsvga@ni.hil.ist to us the poster child of "effective altruism" is sam bank fraud man, but maybe we're just weird
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange like, which one is it? "invited a few times" or "declined and weren't asked again" kind of immediately contradict each other
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run farce maneure
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@joenash@hachyderm.io the actiontec adapters are solid ime
cladue,
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117355036470400988
slop! slop! slop!
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macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/
Software quality control has been declining for many years and now, with the rise of LLMs, nobody actually reads code anymore. If it passes automated tests, it gets shipped. Developers receive hundreds of PRs per day generated by LLMs. How can anyone review all of them? Rubber stamp it. Everyone is simply trusting what these "black box machines" say and shipping the code. Even FLOSS is not free from this mess now.
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@vikxin@beach.city we havent either we just read them directly
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@simonbp@social.linux.pizza the business model is not the only part of the thing that embodies fascism. the conception of the thing itself is white supremacy culture and that does not go away when the model is run locally: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/worship-of-written-word.html
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@somebody@circumstances.run to us "parked" is the thing that happens to an async thread awaiting its result, and we have nightmares about the logistics
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange damn skippy, we're an irrationalist
bleak
if we were an evil overlord how would you even be able to tell
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@RowinSpeez@mas.to @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social this is the weirdest defense of these slopbots we've seen yet
64% of our http requests on the box at home are 402 it looks like
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@joenash@hachyderm.io there's also this guide for more complicated situations: https://github.com/Preston-Landers/MoCA-setup-guide
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@0x47df@duckpon.de we have a lorptep with an eSATA port, that's pretty rad