Wow I’ve never seen enshittification mentioned by a politician. Glad to hear it’s getting inside the Overton Window.

I have 20+ years of software development experience having to deal with user requests, so I am for sure sensitive to that fact! I don’t think that current LLMs can do anything but the most superficial change to code. But that doesn’t mean it always will, in 5-10 years, with realtime inference (e.g. 100x generations for the same prompt allowing for much better error correction) and video support, you could have a long session (say, 1 or 2 hours) of asking questions, reviewing mockups, tweaking the requirements, etc.) in order to understand the ask, and then the user will spend some time using it and testing it.

I agree that with the current state of tools around LLMs, this is very unadvisable. But I think we can develop the right ones.

• We can have tools that can generate the context/info submitters need to understand what has been done, explain the choices they are making, discuss edge cases and so on. This includes taking screenshots as the submitter is using the app, testing period (require X amount of time of the submitter actually using their feature and smoothening out the experience)

• We can have tools at the repo level that can scan and analyze the effect. It can also isolate the different submitted features in order to allow others to toggle them or modify them if they’re not to their liking. Similarly, you can have lots of LLMs impersonate typical users and try the modifications to make sure they work. Putting humans in the loop at different appropriate times.

People are submitting LLM generated code they don’t understand right now. How do we protect repos? How do we welcome these contributions while lowering risk? I think with the right engineering effort, this can be done.

Unless you have a balanced diet that anticipates your workouts and gives you the proper amount of sodium, potassium and magnesium. Sports drinks are just selling you those at a big premium. Stick with water. Eat a banana.

I don’t know, the person was trying to get it to output defamatory things. They got to print what they wanted to print.

The failure of the bot to provide the action is a separate issue which wouldn’t have made the news. It’s not like they were trying to get help and it instead started insulting its own company, right?

This feels like the equivalent of “I was able to print ‘HP Sucks’ on an HP printer”. Like, yes you can do that, but… why is that important or even needs to be blocked?

Thanks! I had actually gotten confused by the Create Post interface and accidentally did not post the URL to the blog post heh. I fixed it now

These are very poor arguments for smoking cigarettes, but sure…

Another argument to give your tween a smartphone is that they need to learn how to use it, to develop a healthy relationship with it, to understand the pros/cons, to understand how to use it effectively. Abstinence will just make them envious and less likely to think through the consequences.

There are lots of people who could use them. Schools, libraries, poor people.

I get ya. I think there’s also a petulant sentiment of “you don’t want to play fair? Then fuck you, I won’t either”

No no, that is not what the headline says.

The headline says “you’re told that what you’re doing is buying by the people selling you the media, but that’s not what you’re actually doing. So, if they’re lying to you about what you’re buying, then pirating a different thing isn’t stealing the thing they are trying to sell you.”

It’s definitely tongue in cheek and has some hyperbole in it, but that is the gist of the statement.

There’s lots they can do…

• cheaper prices (by lowering the % of rent-seeking),
• better pay distribution for creators (Especially so that I pay to support the shows I watch rather than a global pool),
• interoperability (to allow new businesses which provide frontends to multiple streaming services),
• social (clipping and sharing, group watching, etc)
• more equal promotion of shows/movies (instead of based on royalty rates)

I’m not so sure that’s true. What if normalizing and removing friction from piracy gets to the point where the streaming services have to react by providing better services and better payouts?

Yeah, agreed and every person can only do so much. I like to think that it’s all the same fight, it’s the fight against the stranglehold that the rich have on the rest of us.

Cory Doctorow writes extensively about how it’s Spotify’s fault, as an extension of the common exploitation of musicians in the industry, in the excellent book Chokepoint Capitalism. Here’s a short summary of the Spotify argument by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ5z_KKeFqE

What Spotify does affects the entire music market. Why should you worry about their income? Because Spotify’s strategy makes it harder and harder for musicians to have the income to keep on making music. If you care about having music to listen to, you should care about this. Also, Spotify and music is just one example of the overall exploitation of workers. If you don’t stand for artists when it’s their livelihood at stake, why should anyone stand up for your rights when it’s your livelihood at stake?

I’m not sure what you mean. GPTs also allow you to add datasets, and external APIs. Both of which can be used to supply a spiritual pov.

No.

It seems like they have an automatic lab that tested 58 of them and 41 were successfully synthesized. So 70% success