It’s a losing battle in my view.

If FB or IG don’t want to use it, fair. I‘m hopeful that there’s gonna be competition if there’s a system with little friction.

We can’t have legitimate debate if we have to assume a few bad actors are cloning their voice by the thousands, poisoning debate.

If we can pin one account to a real person, we won’t get rid of LLM-content and misinformation, but at least we can hold them accountable.

We need authenticated online spaces where your account is linked to a real, government issued ID. This way, moderating content becomes feasible again. Bans will hold value, since you can’t just create new accounts all the time. I predict people will gravitate towards authenticated markets (and social media).

I for one am sick and tired of second guessing every text I‘m reading, at least give me someone to hold accountable.

I was dumbfounded that it actually tried doing that. Obviously GPT-2 wasn’t great at it, but the writing was on the wall quite literally.

Unfortunately, I was too broke to invest in stocks, but I did pivot my career quite a bit.

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These violations come with hefty fines.

It sounds awesome, but once you look deeper, there's no meat on it. I'd love to be blown away, but even 12 days later there's just... nothing.

It's mind-boggling how bad current voice assistants sometimes are when you prompt them some fairly easy questions.

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I keep wondering when this discussion comes up… If I take an apple and paint it like an orange, it’s clearly not an orange. But how much would I have to change the apple for people to accept that it’s an orange?

This discussion keeps coming up in all aspects of society, like (artificial) diamonds and other, more polarizing topics.

It’s weird and it’s a weird discussion to have, since everyone seems to choose their own thresholds arbitrarily.

I feel like at this point it’s an inevitability that given enough time, capable models will be cheap enough for everyone.

Having a tool that instantly searches through the first 50 pages of google and comes up with a reasonable solution is just speeding up what I would have done manually anyways.

Would I have learned more about (and around) the system I‘m building? Absolutely. I just prefer making my system work over anything else, so I don’t mind losing that.

This is a write-up of a system I designed at a previous job. It's a natural language interface for industrial robots. The demo runs MuJoCo in the browser via WASM.

The demo uses a free-tier LLM API with rate limiting, so it might be slow or unavailable under load, but feel free to check out the code and hook up your own inference service: https://github.com/Encrux/llm_trajectory

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We should be able to verify facts about people on the internet without compromising personal data. Giving platforms the ability to select specific demographics will, in my view, make the web a better place. It doesn’t just let us age restrict certain platforms, but can also make them more authentic. I think it’s really important to be able to know some things to be true about users, simply to avoid foreign election interference via trolling, preventing scams and so much more.

With this, enforcement would also be increasingly easy: Platforms just have to prove that they’re using this method, e.g. via audit.