Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024 - eviltoast

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    yall might want to take notice of this thing https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/20460779

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-08-14/Recent_research

    STORM: AI agents role-play as ā€œWikipedia editorsā€ and ā€œexpertsā€ to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems

    ai slop in extruded text form, now longer and worse! and burns extra square kilometers of rainforest

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        3 months ago

        LLM, tell me the most obviously persuasive sort of science devoid of context. Historically, thatā€™s been super helpful so letā€™s do more of that.

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      we propose the STORM paradigm for the Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking

      oh come the fuck on

      The authors hail from Monica S. Lamā€™s group at Stanford, which has also published several other papers involving LLMs and Wikimedia projects since 2023 (see our previous coverage: WikiChat, ā€œthe first few-shot LLM-based chatbot that almost never hallucinatesā€ ā€“ a paper that received the Wikimedia Foundationā€™s ā€œResearch Award of the Yearā€ some weeks ago).

      from the same minds as STOTRMPQA comes: we constructed this LLM so it wonā€™t generate a response unless similar text appears in the Wikipedia corpus and now it almost never entirely fucks up. award-winning!