Some descriptors for ‘democratised’ software that people can slop for themselves:

Slop as single-use software
Slop as fast fashion

The first aligned AI would immediately try to curb the techbros and billionaires that made it

Plot twist: he just told the chatbot to put in a screen about slop usage, didn’t look at the result, and it dug up a photo portrait from his photos without him noticing

Big corporations are not in the business of selling things and making profits. Their whole line of business is gaming financial markets.

In that regard, datacentres don’t need to do anything. It just needs to demonstrate some material ‘investment’ into Making AI Happen, presenting a potential for super duper revenues in the glorious future, and thereby securing outlandish valuations today.

Slop foundries solved the “slop is uncopyrightable” problem by making the output so awful that nobody would want to pinch it

Basically the sole silver lining I see in our slopocalypse is that some portion of the fortunes being incinerated is moving money from finance parasites back to actual people. Some of it.

If Anthropic’s AI was truly capable of autonomously producing a Photoshop clone, Anthropic would have done it themselves.

Ah, but those margins are chump change for a firm as important as Anthropic. Your proposal will need far more zeros than that (and a minus sign in front).

I haven’t tried it out in the wild, but I feel that Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse appropriately addresses a lot of noteworthy aspects, even though the title gives so much prominence to ‘sex’.

Pray tell, how is the chatbot going to know what you want to say if you won’t write it out? This feels a little too obvious.

microdosing (n) – Taking small amounts of illegal drugs while white. It may be possible to microdose without writing a book or personal essay about it, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy

(I don’t remember ‘small amounts of’ in there; somewhat diminishes the joke IMHO)

I think there’s a typo: we have to explore new technologies as they enter the market TO risk being left behind [by our customers].

I thought they already got rid of the corners 🤔

Best of luck to both of you in your searches for cleaner pastures!

Every one deserves a proper look! … but we’ll do slop reviews instead.

That’s fair. I deliberated a while over how I might describe their relation to CS.

I’m not convinced that techbros respect computer science either. The bit that says ‘computer’ gives them an air of intellect and elitism by proximity, but it’s not actually a field they care to practise.

Years ago I thought, I like writing hobby software but I don’t think I would enjoy it as a career. And so, I do not work (at least directly) in software development.

If only I knew the armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot I was dodging there.

Good news, all abusive and cruel behaviour to Anthropic’s products is absolutely necessary

we’ll read and debate many of the conceptual and mathematical works that have been most influential in the AI alignment field, from both before and during the current LLM revolution.

Can’t wait until an ‘after’ sneaks in there 🤞