Well Meta's 65 billion parameter language model just got leaked to the public internet, that was fast.
— Jeffrey Ladish (@JeffLadish) March 4, 2023
Get ready for loads of personalized spam and phishing attempts. Open sourcing these models was a terrible idea
“ Well Meta's 65 billion parameter language model just got leaked to the public internet, that was fast. Get ready for loads of personalized spam and phishing attempts. Open sourcing these models was a terrible idea”
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not surprising a killjoy cant find love
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This is the first unironic dating application I've seen, and it's coming from a 31yo (rapidly approaching the wall) man. Things are NOT looking good for techcels.
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noted lolbert rationalcel whore https://x.com/aella_girl also had one I remember
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not to trainpost but is that a ?
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no
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https://jeffreyladish.com/dateme
see for yourself
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SDAs are some of the most r-slurred and kill-joy prots. Explains a lot
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Seventh Day Neurodivergent
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jesus christ what is this thing? a man on estrogen?
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oh yeah?
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Are all "rationalists" like this?
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love, happiness, god and money are all just lies your parents told you because they failed.
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Omg that is super cringe
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Lol what will gmail do now? Instead of a billion spam emails getting auto-filtered they’ll have a billion * 0.01% by the r-slurs who think spending $300k - $1M+ training an LLM will actually help them (the leaked params are not the same as leaking a full model with an API).
Reputation systems like pagerank/URLs/voting/age of account/patterns of life/etc etc or just straight up high effort/personalize targeting has always been what bypasses spam detection (especially for Google search results and high throughput spam emails). A custom LLM provides very little value here. Hiring some Indian in a call centre to reply to IMs is still 100x more valuable than a bot sending random replies.
The people posting the most FUD about GPT are always the people who are non-technical or never spent more than 15min thinking about how blackhat spam operations are actually run in 2023.
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Or they're the people that will financially benefit from keeping AI limited
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Or they're people that will financially benefit from fearmongering about shit of which they have no grasp.
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AI """ethicists""" in a nutshell.
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Just let it loose and destroy industrial society already
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Now you got me thinking, how ARE spam ops ran in 2023?
Personally I get too many fricking texts of "You amazon account is locked, please go on my wordpress site and put in your login info and credit card to recover your account" but I assume that's low level shit.
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For that they just need to use an off-brand https://twilio.com -like service to do mass SMS to randoms. SMS is really insecure and there's always shady phone API services that get shut down every couple yrs.
The key question is what happens when someone replies to that text? Is it a) so many that you cant handle the load and b) can ChatGPT actually run your fricking scam for you?
Just basic questions like that and b) is an obvious no.
If you are wondering how scams work watch this Youtube channel:
https://youtube.com/@JimBrowning
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That was a good watch.
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The people I trust with society altering technology is facebook and google, they've shown themselves to only act within universally agreed upon moral boundaries while never taking a partisan stance. Allowing random people to have it might result in it being used for the purpose of suppressing dissent and supporting tyrannical governments while manufacturing support for manufactured forever wars.
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I was told were the next step in evolution why do the have a perfect track record so far this timeline
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Yeah if I'm a third world spammer I totally want to deal with fine tuning a state of the art language model that takes like 150GB of VRAM to even run.
That's a much better way to write personalized spam emails than just having some favela monkeys do it and paying them with literal peanuts. Truly this is the secret sauce I need for my business
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Look you r-slurs, when the posts here are basically the same thing every single day and the bot has like 3 different phrases, of course they are going to match up a lot. You idiots post links to anything that matches up with your gay butt drama buzzwords. I don't get how the circlejerk of regulars don't get bored of this place but I guess that is because of their incredibly low mental capacity. How many times can you say “dude bussy lmao” without wanted to blow your brains out?
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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Ruthless
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dude bussy lmao
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what the frick are talking abo-
oh, another '''rationalist''' brainlet obsessed with their totally-not-religious AI doomsday fantasies
also is this a guy or just really ugly? I can't tell
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It is impossible to respect someone afraid of AGI because they've already decided they can't justify their existence to a rational entity.
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oh no! I'm going to get spam from Facebook?
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