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Multiple readings character.ai Policy & governance · 6 attributable reactions
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character.ai

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy.” evidence ↗
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Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
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thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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8 experts · 59 posts · 19d ago
Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tachikoma Doll Jed Brown apenwarr.ca
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“So there's a sort of survivorship bias. There are still lots of "jobs", but they go to the people who are still alive & in the job market after the last cohort gets gutted. The artists whose work i…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
apenwarr.ca: So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
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2 experts · 12 posts · 12d ago
tachikoma Doll
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“Humans are not aligned. We have competing objectives, incompatible values, imperfect information, wildly different risk tolerances, and occasionally outright malicious intentions. And yet we build …” evidence ↗
Doll: Humans are not aligned. We have competing objectives, incompatible values, imperfect information, wildly different risk tolerances, and occasionally outright malicious intentions. And yet we build …
Doll: Models can be given direct orders and they will comply better than any human, they dont have wants, they dont have ambitions.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 10d ago
tachikoma Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“So it gave this silly but fun wrote-in-15 minutes game this crazy perception of content just because it didn't have those repeated outputs” evidence ↗
tachikoma: once one AAA AI-driven game is successful, it will sweep the industry
tachikoma: it's funny because i'm pretty sure it's already happened with the recent patch update to Deadlock, but it's not technically released yet
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