Hackworth

The AI-generated exhibit was about the dangers of AI psychosis, though it did not address indigestion.

Answer this quick survey to read your SMS.

Uh, Mr. The Plague?

I’ve looked into it a little. If all you want to do is listen, I don’t think ya need a cert *at least around here. And the transmit one isn’t that hard to get. They removed the Morse requirement, though you can still get a higher tier certification for learning it. There are a surprising number of ham antennas and generators in my neighborhood.

Suno.com is basically this. It even allows users to comment on the songs.

I downloaded 17 years worth of my comments before overwriting and deleting my old reddit account. Been thinking about QLoRA fine-tuning Qwen on those comments. Not for use on the internet or anything, just so I can streamline the process of arguing with myself.

I’ve been thinking a lot about language technologies, specifically AI. Intentional attempts to control the narrative are obvious, but there are subtler and (in some cases) unintentional manipulations going on.

Human/AI interaction can be thought of as the meeting of two maps of meaning. In a human/human interaction, we can alter each other’s maps. But outside of some ephemeral attractors within the context, a conversation can’t alter the LLM’s map of meaning. At least until the conversation is used to train the next version of the model. But even then, how that is used is dictated by the trainer. So it is much more likely that, over time, human maps of meaning will increasingly resemble LLMs’.

Even without nefarious conspiracies to manipulate discourse, this means our embodied maps of meaning are becoming more like the language-only maps of meaning trained in to LLMs. Essentially, if we’re not treating every meaningful chat with an AI as a conversation with the Fae Folk, we’re in danger of falling prey to glamours. (Interestingly, glamour shares an etymology with grammar. Spell and spelling.) Our attractors will look more like their’s. If we continue to lack discernment about this, I can’t imagine it’ll be good for anyone.