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Generative AI is not going back into the bag.

It probably will, though, once model collapse sets in.

That's the irony, really... the more successful it is, the sooner it'll poison itself to death.

Impressive how..? It's just statistics-based very slightly fancier autocomplete...

And useful..? It's utterly useless for anything that requires the text it generates to be reliable and trustworthy... the most it can be somewhat reliably used for is as a somewhat more accurate autocomplete (yet with a higher chance for its mistakes to go unnoticed) and possibly, if trained on a custom dataset, as a non-quest-essential dialogue generator for NPCs in games... in any other use case it'll inevitably cause more harm than good... and in those two cases the added costs aren't remotely worth the slight benefits.

It's just a fancy extremely expensive toy with no real practical uses worth its cost.

The only people it's useful to are snake oil salesmen and similar scammers (and even then only in the short run, until model collapse makes it even more useless).

All it will have achieved in the end is an increase in enshittification, global warming, and distrust in any future real AI research.

I think this is still fundamentally misunderstood widely.

The fact that it's being sold as artificial intelligence instead of autocomplete doesn't help.

Or Google and Microsoft trying to sell it as a replacement for search engines.

It's malicious misinformation all the way down.

LLM models can't be updated (i.e., learn), they have to be retrained from scratch... and that can't be done because all sources of new information are polluted enough with AI to cause model collapse.

So they're stuck with outdated information, or, if they are being retrained, they get dumber and crazier with each iteration due to the amount of LLM generated crap on the training data.

So, they've basically accidentally (or intentionally) made Eliza with extra steps (and many orders of magnitude more energy consumption).

This article seems to put the blame on the shockwave from Starship's rapid unscheduled disassembly in the upper atmosphere (not its launch) but there's also been recent warnings about the effects of metal particulates from such explosions, satellites burning in the atmosphere, and similar pollution on the ionosphere.

All in all, burning or blowing up metallic crap in the upper atmosphere seems to be quite a bad idea.

These effects may be troublesome, but they are short-lived; re-ionization occurs as soon as the sun comes up again.

The problem is when you've got enough short lived microsatellites and Starlink-like constellations and whatnot that you've practically got a whole Kessler's syndrome of the damn things constantly burning up in whatever's left of the ionosphere...

If I'm not mistaken SpaceX actually has mechanisms in place to prevent Elon from directly meddling too much in the engineering decisions.

They're the reason SpaceX's products mostly work as intended, unlike Tesla's, Xitter's, or The Boring Company's.

Elon being distracted with Xitter and politics and whatnot probably also helps.

Also to be able to disable certain functionalities of your car if you don't pay a ~~monthly ransom~~ subscription.

Nah. Frieren's appearance and behaviour are straight from the manga, which isn't that kind of book (seriously, the author just wanted to write about an unassuming elf John Wicking demons and accidentally turned it into a great story about death, and friendship, and whatnot) and only ever uses raunchiness in humorous contexts (the clothes dissolving potion, Flamme's “secret seduction technique”, Fern constantly considering everyone a pervert, and so on).

This isn't Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (though that also accidentally turned out deeper than what it was supposed to be, which in that case was smut).

What Madhouse clearly are into in any case is feet (seriously, this show looks like a Tarantino film at times). Serie's, especially. And Übel's armpits, for some reason. Both of those are much more present in the anime than the books (also, excellent animation, like the fights or the dance scene, which in the books are usually just a couple panels; that's probably not a fetish, though).

And Fern acts as a mother to her in the mornings, and when she's shopping / scavenging. It's a bit mutual, at this point.

(Though, yeah, I'm fairly certain that Frieren's childish behaviour is almost entirely intentional on her part, and that she can turn it off and act like an adult when she wants to, which admittedly isn't very often; she might also be a bit feral from all the time she lived alone in the woods.)

So then you know what happens when you make a copy of a copy of a copy and so on. Same thing with LLMs.