Tootfinder

Looks like AI has become the next avenue where ppl seem to think it’s cool & normal to verbally abuse others; including but not limited to calling maintainers idiots or other more or less subtle insults for dealing with the slopocalipse in ways that doesn’t entirely align with their belief system.
I don’t know what you THINK the outcome is but I can tell you what the outcome IS: ppl actually dealing w/ this shit feel even worse & we will remember who did it and who boosted it.

Interesting LLM nuance: why does using phrases like "you're a pen-tester" cause chatbots to emit substantially different predictions, and basically "follow" that instruction? Because of how LLMs work, this implies that the training data has plenty of examples where real humans told each other that they were some role and the humans just immediately jumped into that role without question or intervening dialogue. But that's not something people do in normal conversation. Even in playing-with-kids contexts if you drop that out of the blue you're probably going to get "no I want to be a robot" or "but you were the elephant last time!" rather than immediate assumption of the assigned role.
It's possible that training LLMs to predict immediate role-assumption is something the big models spent a lot of manual effort on. But what I think is more likely is: it's the legacy of role-play forums! All those reams of pages of teenagers (yes, often horny) pretending to be Captain Kirk or their own incredibly cringe "cool" character (but honestly, why call it cringe, let kids be kids and have fun)...
So next time you "tell" a chatbot "you're a..." to get it to do what you want, I'm pretty sure you have an RP forum teen from the past to thank :)
#AI #LLMs

Since invading foreign countries for fun and profit is all cool and normal today, any thoughts on which countries Canada should invade and annex?