It’s a recipe for model collapse at the least. Everything will trend toward the mean, and the models will get worse instead of better.

They’re also trained on each other’s outputs. I forget exactly which two models it was, but there was an example where, e.g., if you asked Claude about itself it would confidently declare it was ChatGPT.

Your adversaries right now…

Gotta be at the office.

A bigger problem than a technical alternative is convincing all of your friends to switch.

There are multiple other programs that fill a similar niche, but I don’t know I’ll be able to get everyone I know to change over.

I definitely will discontinue using Discord if they deploy this surveillance state bullshit, but a little bit sad over the number of gaming buddies I’ll lose contact with in the process.

The idea that they’ve already deployed this in production is absolutely insane.

“You don’t get to fuck over the artists! That’s our job!”

• Sony

Are big businesses still advertising on Facebook? I’d heard that they were running ads for full-on scams, presumably because few real people are left on the platform and it’s no longer attractive to most advertisers.