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[start-anywhere]

so, yeah. some researchers apparently discovered that you can get llms to answer forbidden queries if you ask the question in a super long, jargony, and verbose way

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

[descendantofthesparrow]

Mira! Mal.

[canitrythegreenbeans]

oh

[selenevassos]

um. well yes actually

Your hometown has “culture,” but does it have a 13 foot, bright orange, bug-eyed t-rex with weirdly human teeth

[natureless-creatures]

[rkgk] Modern AU artist Anaxa anyone 🙂‍↕️

Closeups + ref under the cut!

[peasant-player]

Mood

This is for you @outofangband <3 your mood board stuck so long in my head that I needed to draw something.

I always love seeing your post on my feed ❤️

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Was trying to think of the worst time lord that yana could have been other than the master, and now I can’t stop thinking about homunculette and the doctor being stuck as the last two time lords having to work together for some reason

[no1watchdogsfan]

drew this for wrench's va

[elexuscal]

Just read the new Murderbot Diaries short-story rapport, and it was delightful, and overall I'm just so pleased that many of my own headcanons about how meeting Murderbot impacting ART were proven true.

Cuz we knew that ART had an impact of Murderbot. The first friend it met as a free agent. Someone who helped it without needing to. An AI that was able to follow its own agenda. Someone it could watch TV with. etc.

But reading between the lines of Network Effect and System Collapse, it seemed that the vice versa might've been even larger. That ART had crew members it respected and valued, maybe even loved, but nobody like itself. That it's kind of constantly has to tune itself down for humans-- too fast, too sharp, too scary-- and MB was someone who was willing to snap back. That MB, containing aspects of both human and machine intelligence, was able to act as a bit of a Rosetta Stone.

ART was suddenly able to feel, viscerally, what trauma was. A whole bunch of other emotions too, presumably; but first and most intensely, the every-muscle-contract, alarm-sirens-in-your-head, oh-god-i'm-gonna-die, imsorryimsorryimsorrydontlookatme of sheer bone-deep trauma.

and it came back from that trip changed.

[mossy-crow0]

so. this is what happened right. giant fuckign space laser

[theojrresponds]

// same hes so cool :3

unpopular opinion for Tumblr but I love my dad

[lookninjas]

I am collecting the things that are going wrong today. I am doing this for a specific purpose. If something is going wrong for you today and you want to share, please feel free to drop it in the tags.

[youngmanifestovoyager]

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[truffletripper]

Day 2 - Bob Dylan

[slimecicle-fanblog]

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Great news everybody