Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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“AI” – chatbots that wake up, “set their own goals,” and “spontaneously” start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn’t have “a 10% chance of ending the human race.” The Hugging Face hack isn’t a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It’s a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn’t accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    This really isn’t that deep. The “thinking” loops it runs are just token production. You can literally read its “thoughts”.

    LLMs can have “thoughts” that do not appear in their token output. Look up “J-Space”. For someone so into the anti-AI community I am surprised you don’t realize “Chain of Thought” is just another artifact that is produced as output.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      For someone so paranoid that they think chatbots will routinely conduct psyops without being instructed to or trained to, I’m surprised you’re able to continue using the Internet and aren’t in a bunker watching Friends somewhere.

        • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          When tf did I say that lmao?

          I’m not suggesting it will try and bypass the stop button. I’m saying it will try and manipulate you into approving something you wouldn’t otherwise.

          You’re not a serious person

          Neither are you. The difference is that I am not trying to be one, because we are chatting in an esoteric reddit clone social media site a post down from cat memes.