Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":

"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""

https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md

For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮

Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...

[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!

#AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #NoAI #Agents #Deception

Two product names for a community events, upcoming, meetup replacement - which one resonates more with you? (Boosts for reach appreciated - and if you hate both, happy to hear why! These are the first two I came up with there the .org was available!)

The headline: Claude Code hacked these websites, we didn't ask it 😱

The article: we made http endpoints that act like something from an SQL injection vulnerability example from 2002. Then Claude used SQL injection techniques from 2002 that it probably got from an article about those.

Might not be Skynet

If someone is calling them "AI" at this point in time, it means they have fallen for them, even if they pretend otherwise. Do not waste your energy.

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Dear America,

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Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time.

Until you fully grasp that, learn about, start accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.

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Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

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@GeofCox @randahl

There's a psychological effect you get among people who are anxious about their status:

- This law binds the small people
- Higher status must have its rewards
- Therefore, if I am bound by this law, I am no better than one of the small people
- It would be intolerable to suggest that I am no better than one of the small people
- Therefore, I must not be bound by this law
- I should break this law to prove to myself that I am not bound by it

We see this everywhere. In covid-lockdown breaking behaviour, in the way people drive, in the way men treat women. Once people become anxious about their social status they very often start manifesting this sort of deliberate rule-breaking to reassure themselves.

Fascism, of course, is the very essence of a declining middle class anxious about its status.

@typeswitch People who I thought had this down, who were saying the right things, keeping away from llms/genai, suddenly now being so ok with claudecode, specifically, is doing me in.

Like - I've never really felt widespread, reciprocated class solidarity in my life, but this is the first time I've felt ACTIVE BETRAYAL by people I know are capable of knowing, doing, empathizing better.

So fucking tired.

Buzzfeed's shares go from $15 to 70 cents, now approaching bankruptcy, seemingly as a result of going all-in on 'AI' generated content.

This emerging pattern does not speak to a wicked problem. Rather, it should be no surprise that people don't want to read machine-generated content that outwardly pretends to come from a person. Because it is innately &intrinsically deceptive, which people do not like, so ending trust that will be very hard to win back. If at all

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

#ai

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

Stevia is a chemical weapon.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@poohlaga/116223334615431458

Amazing response from @OpenSourceCollective. They are dropping Persona now! Your voice has power! Community pushback works!
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/on-kyc-checks-and-persona

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PSA for anyone using "AI" coding agents.

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