Ann Archy

It’s overwhelming and keeps me up at night.

I’m more than prepared to fight it. Just awaiting orders.

Meh I’m being dramatic. Sort of. I fight, we all fight.

What is that quote, under tyranny every democratic act is an act of rebellion? I paraphrase.

I mean they are the customer facing entity of the company. Of course they are going to get angry customers calling in and voicing their grievances because of the actions of Sony.

And that’s why they employ the cheapest labor to deal with it, it’s just a front, they don’t give a shit. What can the support staff do? Not much, I’d wager, and I’d wager that that shit rightfully would piss some customers off.

They’re literally employed as an abuse filter.

AI chat assistant incoming in 3…2…1…

“You fools! You’re not even talking to us, you’re talking to a homeless person! We will never hear what you have to say!”

So unjapanese.

I am on a boycott since the Sony Rootkit Scandal.

Slander?

Is it legally possible to slander Sony?

All right windscribe.

Thing is with Mullvad is that I know for a fact that they don’t keep logs. The cops raided their place twice and they learned after that that there’s no point. They let them in and do whatever they wanted- they knew they wouldn’t find anything.

That type of trust is hard to come by.

Fuck nazis man, they infect the best of us. Such a copout. I suppose it’s something about… They get sentimental in their old years and remember a country that is no longer there- I feel that shit too, but I don’t get caught up in nationalist cosplay and LARP parties about it, shit changes, we need to fight for it without being fucking nazis. There’s a middle road here I feel.

Sorry, I just got rambling, didn’t mean to, but damn.

It’s like one of the founders of Mullvad VPN (very very rich OG Swedish hacker from way back when) came out as supporting a serious right wing nationalist party in Sweden a couple months back, he paid them like $500K to make sure they stayed in politics and won.

They are the best VPN, but I’m not coming back once my subscription expires.

What is even happening? Are we seeing something like a return to lead poisoning, but there some chemical in our environment that’s rotting people’s brains the same way but we don’t know about it just like we didn’t know about lead at first?

Controversy? Never.

Sick thing is, you can say the most outrageous shit, and since you have a direct pipeline to billions of people online, you’ll always find some fumb ducks to pay you.

Welcome to the post-MLM economy! You don’t even influence people, you just say what they want to hear, and they’ll influence others for you! Jesus christ.

Bloody fuck you bloody!

Bye Chrome, I hardly knew ya.

I, too, respond to comments several weeks later. TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME.

No but seriously, the inbox notifications scare me. I go through them once a month and answer to all three hundred comments in one sitting, it works for me, OK?

Edit: hahahaha! great comic! :)

Yeah. Mixed results. Just like an ordinary search. And please note- you knew it was wrong. It is much easier using a tool when you know when it’s misbehaving. Sure the level of utility varies from person to person and situation to situation, but there are things I am truly grateful that AI helped me understand, learn, or just spit back at me. It is a very useful tool.

No notes! I hear ya.

A pretty good one. I mean we’re running out of them, google isn’t very helpful anymore, and DDG is just a frontend…

100%. And it’s dangerous as fuck. I am very aware, I dedicated my whole life to communicating through text, with computers, with humans, with myself, I studied philosophy and cognition and language and semiotics and computing and coding, so I’m at a tremendous advantage, and I have noticed that I have started talking a bit more like AI over the past few years.

Like, lie with dogs, get fleas.

Imagine if they decided that they will adjust the morality of the AI, to, let’s say, just be a little bit more favorable towards the concept of “white genocide” in South Africa, and the global effects you could see in sentiment. You think Facebook is bad? In ten years we are going to have a seriously big fucking problem with a handful of people truly controlling what people think. They already do, but this one is a game changer.

Sorry for rambling.

I repeat myself but, and this might even sound elitist, but if you’re an academic, you will have exponentially greater use of AI than if you ain’t.

You get what you put. So if you put effort and know how to communicate and know coding and know what’s going on, you’re gonna have a better time than if you don’t. But still, that said, you have to be very careful because it is so comforting, humans are very susceptible to praise and flattery, we want to be lured in, we let ourselves be fooled, like a magic trick.

If you know it’s happening you have some defense, imagine all the people who don’t and get lost. but I suppose that’s the danger with anything really. Make sure you don’t get screwed over, as best you can. Sorry for rambling, I have a lot of thoughts on many matters, and I think it’s important that we talk about these things so we can figure it out together.

That’s how I feel right now and that’s that!

I get high when I stare at a terminal screen nonplussed for hours and suddenly it clicks and I fix it.

That’s a rush for me.

That’s what I’ve been saying too. AI is very much what you put in you get out. If you actually know what you’re doing, it’s a great little shortcut tool*. Ask stupid questions win stupid prizes, kind of.

* for SOME tasks - terms and conditions apply