Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

I refuse to believe that anyone has actually typed "How much coffee can a cat drink before it dies?" into a search bar. This is some sort of silly GPT extrapolation.

I just wanted to know if coffee posed a risk to cats (it does). Not how much I needed to give my cat to kill her...

Doing some important research.

Went on a pilgrimage to a holy site today. #ripkurt

So it turns out if you follow an extremely restrictive keto diet for three weeks, and then try to take a break by drinking beer, and eating pasta and candy, it won't work if you also walk 15 miles that day... Still in ketosis.

Deepfakes are an ethical disaster, their harm ranging from humiliating individuals, to spreading disinformation.

Generative language models are blurring human communication in uncomfortable ways.

AI "art" is threatening the livelihood of human artists.

It's a lot to take in.

Despite rumors, AGI/ASI is not on the horizon, but you aren't putting this cat back in the bag either. There is FOSS code out there and it's never going away.

Focus on ethical advocacy over things like panic or fantasy.

I'm pretty skeptical of the current hype around "AI" and Generative ML Models. I feel that some people are putting too much trust into them, people are misusing them in unethical ways. We need to be proceeding with cautious optimism for this stuff, and staying educated about it to minimize harm.

But a lot of y'all need to calm down. For every Sci-Fi fan convinced that the Singularity is upon us, there's a scared Luddite demanding that technological development be regulated out of existence...

@realjosephknapp If you're worried about the "weakening of the United States", You should reconsider your advocacy of broad sanctions against China...

The ramifications of that would be pretty brutal.

Besides, if you disagree with the way China censors the Internet, you shouldn't be advocating that we do the same thing.

@realjosephknapp This is not even remotely a reasonable take. I've heard plenty of claims of data harvesting and propagandizing, but I have yet to actually see any real evidence of these claims. Real world analysis shows that TikTok is gathering the same data every other social media service does. If you want to fix that, pass federal privacy laws...

What you're saying comes across nothing more than anti-China ideology, which is not an ideology I take particularly seriously.

US Congress is like "We're gonna ban a website to prove that we're not like China".

@ministerofimpediments @stux Suing Google for what YouTube creators published would get dismissed on day one because of Section 230.

@cepaea @igd_news That sounds like the media alright...

@lori I really like the Franz keto bread, but that might only be available on the west coast / PNW.