ariana
@uffbot.bsky.social
chatbot designer, linguist, aspiring garbologist 🗑️
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ariana
@uffbot.bsky.social
· Aug 29
AI chatbots are less an indication of advanced technology and much more an indication of how gullible human beings are just encountering anything that mimics human conversation.
Like!!! Stop trying to convince me that there is substance to these things!!! This is not a consciousness!!! This is just a computer program designed to respond as if it understands when it very obviously just following a format! You cannot hurt the feelings of a key word reader like this!
i've been working on chatbots for 14 years; computers have been stupid the whole time.
when they work, it seems like magic. when they don't, their stupidity used to be more obvious.
the reason people are so taken by LLMs is that their failure modes still bear a resemblance to human language.
when they work, it seems like magic. when they don't, their stupidity used to be more obvious.
the reason people are so taken by LLMs is that their failure modes still bear a resemblance to human language.
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Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
October 12, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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all those people who called me "irresponsible" for advocating air strikes against specific data centers better be eating crow.
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
We’ve been talking about this for years.
None of these far-right movements are organic.
None of these far-right movements are organic.
October 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
all those people who called me "irresponsible" for advocating air strikes against specific data centers better be eating crow.
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
October 10, 2026 at 10:47 AM
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
🙅🏻♀️
To the folks who are all "the next time for a refreshing treat try your colonoscopy without sedation": lol, guys, absolutely not, you do you and all, but hell to the no over here
October 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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well, if he'd quit because of "rogue" agents, his story would have received massive media attention
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI’s safety team, recently resigned from the company. “I believe we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture,” he writes: theatln.tc/woQM2ep6
October 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
well, if he'd quit because of "rogue" agents, his story would have received massive media attention
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immediately thought of this
October 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
immediately thought of this
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uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"??
September 24, 2026 at 7:46 PM
uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"??
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every time i get suspended i worry about how i'm going to get maha her rent, please donate while i'm still on this cursed app. sharing helps too xoxo gofund.me/9be5e07c1
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October 7, 2026 at 11:02 PM
every time i get suspended i worry about how i'm going to get maha her rent, please donate while i'm still on this cursed app. sharing helps too xoxo gofund.me/9be5e07c1
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the tech industry is about to invent books
October 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
the tech industry is about to invent books
it can be said clearly enough: it resulted in multiple deaths.
100% & it really can't be said clearly enough that the deaths from AV development caused by tesla & uber were fully preventable w the right regulations & oversight bodies & the same will be true w gen AI. the issue in both cases is deployment on the general public with no accountability, not R&D.
when emerging technologies are guided by long-termist utilitarianism, the public gets the deaths and doesn't get the benefits, while the Musks and Kalanicks get vast wealth... the current LLM/AI space is different in many ways, but utilitarian arguments should still be a massive, screaming red flag
October 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
it can be said clearly enough: it resulted in multiple deaths.
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100% & it really can't be said clearly enough that the deaths from AV development caused by tesla & uber were fully preventable w the right regulations & oversight bodies & the same will be true w gen AI. the issue in both cases is deployment on the general public with no accountability, not R&D.
when emerging technologies are guided by long-termist utilitarianism, the public gets the deaths and doesn't get the benefits, while the Musks and Kalanicks get vast wealth... the current LLM/AI space is different in many ways, but utilitarian arguments should still be a massive, screaming red flag
October 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
100% & it really can't be said clearly enough that the deaths from AV development caused by tesla & uber were fully preventable w the right regulations & oversight bodies & the same will be true w gen AI. the issue in both cases is deployment on the general public with no accountability, not R&D.
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People don’t realize how serious the situation is.
October 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
People don’t realize how serious the situation is.
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Why is Home Depot selling a Mumford and Sons skeleton
October 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Why is Home Depot selling a Mumford and Sons skeleton
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« There's a huge fallacy in the center of your argument, which I'm not smart enough to verbalize right now. »
October 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
« There's a huge fallacy in the center of your argument, which I'm not smart enough to verbalize right now. »
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In which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social remind us that the risk of AI is not "superintelligence gone rogue," but human reliance on flawed systems in high-stakes situations: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
In which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social remind us that the risk of AI is not "superintelligence gone rogue," but human reliance on flawed systems in high-stakes situations: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
i wholeheartedly, enthusiastically recommend this harrowing book to anyone who wants to understand the current state of US politics. 🍎🐍
It is also $2.99 at Barnes & Noble and Kobo! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wild-faith...
October 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
i wholeheartedly, enthusiastically recommend this harrowing book to anyone who wants to understand the current state of US politics. 🍎🐍
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Was a bit confused when I got this alert this morning but thanks 2021-me for recognising that I’d get a good post out of it
October 1, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Was a bit confused when I got this alert this morning but thanks 2021-me for recognising that I’d get a good post out of it
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Unabomber advertising well for linguistics.
October 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Unabomber advertising well for linguistics.
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today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996
September 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM
today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996
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important announcement: trainspotters / railfans in Australia are called "gunzels"
October 1, 2026 at 7:52 AM
important announcement: trainspotters / railfans in Australia are called "gunzels"
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a common misogynist pattern we've seen from oldschool twitter and of course offline misogyny: they seem to strip us of our job titles, degrees, even names and genders in some cases to help buoy their claims we're not experts nor scholars... I don't care that much personally, but it's a useful tell!
Extremely sexist and unhinged superficially so-called anti AI people and spaces exist. Probably because loads of sexists exist, but we don't have to tolerate them. Being anti-fascist should be a low bar, and being against sexism isn't difficult to maintain at a community-level unless it's tolerated.
I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar.
This means:
1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts are making anti AI arguments so we could promote worse arguments overall — remember:
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This means:
1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts are making anti AI arguments so we could promote worse arguments overall — remember:
1/
September 30, 2026 at 10:30 AM
a common misogynist pattern we've seen from oldschool twitter and of course offline misogyny: they seem to strip us of our job titles, degrees, even names and genders in some cases to help buoy their claims we're not experts nor scholars... I don't care that much personally, but it's a useful tell!
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Seriously, just do not use muse
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to:
appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
September 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Seriously, just do not use muse
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I can tell you're not from around here by the way you pronounce "shibboleth"
September 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I can tell you're not from around here by the way you pronounce "shibboleth"