i almost had a stroke reading this
The compute used to do this burnt several ton of natural gas, boiled a small lake in Minnesota, traumatized approximately 4 people in the developing world to label the training data, and cost a pensioner about 2% of their net value.
Is anyone else walking around in a perpetual SEETHING RAGE THAT APPROACHES THE HEAT OF THE SUN at literally all times because of this shit? Like the absolute state of the fucking world where THAT is what we spend the MAJORITY of our resources on. Literally just manipulating and nagging people to do bullshit no one wants.
For me it’s more a distributed smoldering rage at the systems that make such outcomes inevitable, and at those who refuse to consider these things critically because they’re personally benefiting from it in some way. Whether that benefit be in the form of personal social and financial success, or in the form of emotional comfort at the idea that there is an inevitable march of progress that will solve problems.
Like, honestly, I’m not even really angry at the individuals, mainly at the dynamics that create the shitty behavior. It’s hard for me to be furiously angry at concepts though.
Don’t worry, I’ll be angry at concepts for you ;3
Thank
Counterpoint: number must go up! 💲💰💸🤑
Feels like a subplot in a muderbot book
Benn Jordan is a national treasure
Yessss anyone reading this, look up The Flashbulb - Chik Habit
Then go see The Flashbulb play live he’s amazing I love his work he’s so good aaaaaaa
This sounds and feels like Monday morning
Had to read it thrice to comprehend
Still not getting it.
He makes videos. Another YouTube channel scrapes and summarizes his videos with AI. This other YouTube channel sends him unsolicited emails, presumably written with an LLM, trying to get him to endorse generative AI services.
He had Gemini summarize the emails.
He had NotebookLM generate a podcast from those Gemini summaries?
???
Shit I need to get back to work.He makes music! He’s the Flashbulb.
He also makes videos and is quite awesome at it
I believe it is as follows:
A youtube channel scrapes and summarizes his video, copying over his contact info. He then gets contacted to promote AI services on the scraper’s channel. These mails get summarised by gemini, possibly because he puts them in though I feel like this could be some automatic function of some mail client nowadays. He then inputs these summaries into NotebookLM and generates a podcast from them, arriving at the current situation.
But why male models?
Ye, that’s how I understood it
