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@batkaren

this is scary

@sunumbral

Did you spin this yarn? is it silk? it's so shiny and well defined.

@faithisleaping

As someone who basically LIVES on Sesame Street we are in NYC. But like many neighborhoods (and even floors of some buildings) there are local Mayors in addition to the Mayor of the city. So Oscar is in charge of the street.

@johnlogic

Maybe "Hypatia" ? IDK

@johnlogic

Kind of shocked they are still around.

@johnlogic

No I was just trying to think of a name for the chatbot.

Now his son is developing dark tendencies like those he thought he left in his past. And the old images and video are resurfacing in very public places in very unsettling ways. An object, innocent-seeming that reminds him of a very dark night. A face that is too similar to one of his victims.

Soon everyone will know. He becomes paranoid and destroys the project everyone is counting on.

Only to find that is not enough to erase the past.

Story Idea:

A caviler AI CEO guy finds out that the hard drives that contain evidence of his many horrific crimes (Think American Psycho) were also included in the training data. He's able to erase the evidence they were scanned but can't restart the training to totally remove them.

He's not worried, he's busy. A high profile "family man" with political ambitions. And "Of course I let the kids use Hypatia, she's trustworthy and family safe."

Only hints of who he is haunt the machine.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @GossiTheDog

This is giving me an idea for a horror story.

The face of a murdered child haunts the machine, comes backs to find the killer.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @GossiTheDog

That's something I'll never like about the way these models that don't run on your own machine work. You don't really know what has been "mixed in" to the final image you are looking at.

Even for innocent things, they could have all sorts of influences.

And none of these companies carefully vetted their training sets. They just didn't care.

@SnoopJ @20000lbs_of_Cheese

yeah... poor cat has been the victim of her share of puns and it shows.

@carrideen

It's exactly this with Pica. I can't prove that she doesn't want to seem "overly pleased" but that's how it feels.

But I can tell when she really likes something and will come back to it right away as soon as I leave her alone and seem disinterested.

The cat sitters called me because I wrote a note saying "she really loves churu treats, goes nuts for them always eats them" but she did the "Pica thing" and walked away so they thought she didn't want it.

But I know if she likes something she will walk away, circle around and come back. So they were confused.

Sometimes I think she just likes to maintain control. Not feel like these humans have her number....

Fellow cat owners. Do any of you have a cat who is... standoffish about seeming to eager or excited about getting things that they like?

For example if I make box for Pica to hide in she will look at it and pointedly walk away... (but, then go in it later when I'm not looking.) Same thing with food.

In fact, if you watch her? She's not going to try anything you offer her no matter how much she loves it.

Maybe she's just too nervous, or it's part of her "imperial" bearing ... who knows.

@GossiTheDog

This is so gross.

@pixel

"And where is your wife now?"
"Oh in the coat room probably... or over where everyone left their phones to charge..."

@otte_homan @GossiTheDog

I think this is as much an advertisement for what grok "could" do as an apology.

I guess that's a little cynical, but I don't think it's out of line.

@copiesofcopies

Yeah. I didn't think things through much in my 20s I guess.

@copiesofcopies

I learned that if someone says "Well we've stopped you because someone said it looks like a bomb" responding with "How could it be a bomb? It doesn't even have a payload!" indignantly is NOT what you should do.

It's better to say "Oh wow I didn't think of that. It's really just a timer with old style of display. Let me turn it off."

@GossiTheDog

How did the computer have the kind of training data needed to make such an image?

No one cares about this?