• maol@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    Is this the “flying saucer fails to land” moment for him? AIs (large language models, ai-generated images, etc etc) are now within the experience or understanding of more and more people, and he can’t just make stuff up about it anymore?

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      If he were a grifter, yeah. However, he’s a true believer, so instead he rants about how modern machine-learning methods are dangerous and could escape at any moment; he genuinely believes that Skynet is being born inside some cloud right now.