Boops

Posts random stuff occasionally and retweets nice stuff.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A brilliant review of how most of a magician's trick repertoire is performed

[📹 roman_magic_nn]

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

🇺🇸 Según los médicos de la Casa Blanca, el presidente Biden está en perfectas condiciones para ejercer el poder y no tienen ningún problema cognitivo.

Aquí una lista de 10 videos que lo desmienten:

1. Biden se pierde en el escenario.

[Boops @shadowoffaye]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! BIG W!!

[The Streamer Awards @StreamerAwards]

WHAT AN ARTISTIC MIND! 🎨 CONGRATULATIONS TO
@RubberNinja
FOR WINNING BEST CREATIVE ARTS STREAMER. #TheStreamerAwards2024

[Boops @shadowoffaye]

@SpockResists I'd love to read more about this. Can you link the sources you got this information from?

[Mario Juric @mjuric]

I'm done with @Google. I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why:

I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only product has the same (if not worse) issues. And second, if you know a bit about how these models are built, you know you don't get these "incorrect" answers through one-off innocent mistakes. Gemini's outputs reflect the many, many, FTE-years of labeling efforts, training, fine-tuning, prompt design, QA/verification -- all iteratively guided by the team who built it. You can also be certain that before releasing it, many people have tried the product internally, that many demos were given to senior PMs and VPs, that they all thought it was fine, and that they all ultimately signed off on the release. With that prior, the balance of probabilities is strongly against the outputs being an innocent bug -- as @googlepubpolicy is now trying to spin it: Gemini is a product that functions exactly as designed, and an accurate reflection of the values people who built it.

Those values appear to include a desire to reshape the world in a specific way that is so strong that it allowed the people involved to rationalize to themselves that it's not just acceptable but desirable to train their AI to prioritize ideology ahead of giving user the facts. To revise history, to obfuscate the present, and to outright hide information that doesn't align with the company's (staff's) impression of what is "good". I don't care if some of that ideology may or may not align with your or my thinking about what would make the world a better place: for anyone with a shred of awareness of human history it should be clear how unbelievably irresponsible it is to build a system that aims to become an authoritative compendium of human knowledge (remember Google's mission statement?), but which actually prioritizes ideology over facts. History is littered with many who have tried this sort of moral flexibility "for the greater good"; rather than helping, they typically resulted in decades of setbacks (and tens of millions of victims).

Setting social irresponsibility aside, in a purely business sense, it is beyond stupid to build a product which will explicitly put your company's social agenda before the customer's needs. Think about it: G's Search -- for all its issues -- has been perceived as a good tool, because it focused on providing accurate and useful information. Its mission was aligned with the users' goals ("get me to the correct answer for the stuff I need, and fast!"). That's why we all use(d) it. I always assumed Google's AI efforts would follow the pattern, which would transfer over the user base & lock in another 1-2 decade of dominance.

But they've done the opposite. After Gemini, rather than as a user-centric company, Google will be perceived as an activist organization first -- ready to lie to the user to advance their (staff's) social agenda. That's huge. Would you hire a personal assistant who openly has an unaligned (and secret -- they hide the system prompts) agenda, who you fundamentally can't trust? Who strongly believes they know better than you? Who you suspect will covertly lie to you (directly or through omission) when your interests diverge? Forget the cookies, ads, privacy issues, or YouTube content moderation; Google just made 50%+ of the population run through this scenario and question the trustworthiness of the core business and the people running it. And not at the typical financial ("they're fleecing me!") level, but ideological level ("they hate people like me!"). That'll be hard to reset, IMHO.

What about the future? Take a look at Google's AI Responsibility Principles (https://t.co/KMKHQQfVJH) and ask yourself what would Search look like if the staff who brought you Gemini was tasked to interpret them & rebuild it accordingly? Would you trust that product? Would you use it? Well, with Google's promise to include Gemini everywhere, that's what we'll be getting (https://t.co/W5lkXXE4c2). In this brave new world, every time you run a search you'll be asking yourself "did it tell me the truth, or did it lie, or hide something?". That's lethal for a company built around organizing information.

And that's why, as of this weekend, I've started divorcing my personal life and taking my information out of the Google ecosystem. It will probably take a ~year (having invested in nearly everything, from Search to Pixel to Assistant to more obscure things like Voice), but has to be done. Still, really, really sad...

[Boops @shadowoffaye]

The media doesn't actually care about a young girl who died, they care about how they can use her death in a way to benefit them.

[Boops @shadowoffaye]

This is our media at work. Bending the truth to fit their narrative. Using the lives of children to push their agenda. This is a tragedy and instead of focusing on the victim and what actually happened, the media twists it into a narrative of a hate crime.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Nex Benedict wasn’t bullied because she was a part of LGBTQ+ community.

She actually initiated the fight by pouring water on the other girls.

The narrative the media and activists were selling is all a lie.

[Coco ♡ @rozenheartdream]

This post from Tumblr pretty much explains it

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

For the record:

YOUR religion tells YOU what you can and can't do. It doesn't mean shit to the rest of us.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The woke mind virus is killing Western Civilization.

Google does the same thing with their search results. Facebook & Instagram too.

And Wikipedia.

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

Maui citizens received $700.

Illegals get $10K and free room and board with no questions asked.

[Boops @shadowoffaye]

Not to mention the hours upon hours it takes, the struggle, the "why can I not just look and draw how I see something?" frustration, training until you *can* do that.
To the AI art bros, we artists aren't seen as human, we're just seen as resources to steal from.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

For those who still need to hear it:

Being inspired by something you saw and processed via ocular meatballs and grey matter isn't the same as downloading a bunch of other people's images off the internet and compressing them into an AI model for profit.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I hope the public is waking up to this

[jake @stratejake]

I've never been so embarrassed to work for a company.

[kyander @Kissyander]

🧑‍🦳❤️🐱

[Boops @shadowoffaye]

Our government and big tech companies are turning into a circle jerk of trying to control the populace through manipulation and misinformation.

WAKE UP PEOPLE

DON'T TREAD

[Raymond G. Stanley Jr @raymondgstanley]

Watch in real time as @Timcast shows us how Cultist and Racist @GoogleAI is.
It's hilarious and also maddening.
I decided not to clip it short to spare the racist cult from pulling a James O'Keefee on it with deceptive editing bs.
6min mark is the best one.

[[email protected] @Frog_spectacles]

with all the Sora stuff happening right now,

I feel like I spent 20 years of my life swimming suddenly they let motorboats into the Olympics.