whom gods destroy, they first make assmad

like holy fuck you idiots none of this is newsworthy or interesting. for years now there have been decensored open-source models on huggingface, freely available to download, specifically tuned for porn production and "erotic roleplay." anyone can run these on their own hardware

the fucking porn thing is a new low

the western AI corps feel like nothing but a distraction at this point. i am so sick of the media fanatically gargling the effluvia of Cyberpunk Nightmare Megacorps ##42 thru ##47, when actually interesting things are happening elsewhere

used bot salesman "has got just the deal for you," inside sources suggest. and that's not all,

sam altman stop talking for five entire minutes challenge

thus always to the parasite-lords

holy shit lmao theyre actually throwing sarkozy in prison

"based on principles of acoustics, specifically designed to muffle the screams" ##wikifinds

i wish we'd all switch to "kakistocrat" for describing feudal lords, and return "aristocrat" to its old Platonic sense

a certain amount of self-interested cynicism is necessary to survive long-term in this blasted turbocapitalist hellscape, but there comes a point where being cynical and jaded can only make the world a worse place. hope can exist as something other than the opium of the masses

the reaction to the initial failure of utopian futurism has become something toxic and ugly

alas, there does not appear to have been a real-life "Sopio Capax"

some actual historical romans have names that sound like Monty Python made them up for laughs. there was at least one guy named "Spurius" and I have not been able to figure out why

alas it can't quite manage to decode "außerordentlichhochgeschwindigkeitelektronentwickelndenschwerarbeitsbeigollitron"

DE and JA also seem pretty well handled, though i'm less able to evaluate them. AR support is less good, though I doubt I have a perfect native accent

what really struck me is how often it manages to reconstruct punctuation based purely on context and tone

FUTO's English voice input is really amazingly good, especially considering it can run locally on my ancient phone. handles neologisms really well. apparently iOS proprietary speech recognition is trash by comparison

the string theorists are at it again

China on the whole doesn't have this problem. they can train their bots to interrogate the world through dialectical materialism, uphold Confucian values, and refuse to discuss the Tiananmen Square Psyop. the only consequence will be a bunch of Americans getting extremely butthurt about it online.

worse, most of us are willing to actively lie our asses off in service of our beliefs and agendas — even empiricism becomes hopelessly contaminated.

"ideological neutrality" is not a thing. how we construct the world around is a function of our desires, our delusions, and our moral axiomata. one man's horrific murder is another's auto-da-fé.

take away the coherent ontology, and you wind up with psychosis. so how do you train your AI to think? how do you do this without creating something that a segment of your population will see as an enemy, or a heretic, or a manipulative liar?

that is, to put it mildly, not the case anymore. and now these same fractious, deluded liberal polities are trying to figure out how to build and regulate AI. this is problematic because cognition as we know it is not an objective process. it requires some kind of coherent ontology