JFranek

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[–] JFranek@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Was jumpscared on my YouTube recommendations page by a video from AI safety peddler Rob Miles and decided to take a look.

It talked about how it's almost impossible to detect whether a model was deliberately trained to output some "bad" output (like vulnerable code) for some specific set of inputs.

Pretty mild as cult stuff goes, mostly anthropomorphizing and referring to such LLM as a "sleeper agent". But maybe some of y'all will find it interesting.

link

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

It's two guys in London and one guy in San Francisco. In London there's presumably no OpenAI office, in SF, you can't be at two places at once and Anthropic has more true believers/does more critihype.

Unrelated, few minutes before writing this a bona-fide cultist replied to the programming dev post. Cultist with the handle "BussyGyatt @feddit.org". Truly the dumbest timeline.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, didn't even cross their mind that it could be wrong, because it looked ok.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shamelessly posting link to my skeet thread (skeet trail?) on my experience with an (mandatory) AI chatbot workshop. Nothing that will surprise regulars here too much, but if you want to share the pain...

https://bsky.app/profile/jfranek.bsky.social/post/3lxtdvr4xyc2q

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s how you get a codebase that kinda sorta works in a way but is more evolved than designed, full of security holes, slow as heck, and disorganized to the point where it’s impossible to fix bugs, adds features, or understand what’s going on.

Well, one of the ways *glancing at the code I'm responsible for, sweating profusely*

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error

At first, I couldn't believe that the staff didn't catch that. But thinking about it, no, I totally can.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

He're hoping that the more he spends time gooning the more he'll leave the rest of us alone. crosses fingers

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

When I read Excel Copilot, I thought "they finally added a chatbot that lets you generate a spreadsheet/range/table processing a datasource. Like "copilot, create a table that aggregates prices by category from table xyz".

To which I was like "Ok, maybe that could be useful to some of the many non-technical excel users." I wasn't prepared for whatever this is.

I mean with vibe-coding/excelling? you eventually get something that can run deterministically.

Are we... are we gonna start seeing terminally AI-pilled bozos implementing gacha mechanics in data pipelines?

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yay! *pats myself on the back*

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I have no idea what is good web design. I'll just note makes the waving red, white and blue flag in the background makes the white heading text pretty hard to read.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Second quote is classic "you must be prompting it wrong". No, it can't be that people which find a tool less useful will be using it less often.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago

Why would you do waluigi and wario dirty like that?

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