An 'AI-emulation' of Anne Frank made for use in schools. Who the fuck thought this is appropriate? Who in the everloving fuck coded this? Who approved it? Who didn't stop them? @histodons #histodons - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy • 46 days ago

An 'AI-emulation' of Anne Frank made for use in schools.

Who the fuck thought this is appropriate?
Who in the everloving fuck coded this? Who approved it?
Who didn't stop them?

@histodons #histodons

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lordturnip.bsky.social•46 days ago

If only there was some sort of written thing documenting her experience from her persepective we could study and know exactly how she thought and felt at the time.

Oh well, I guess there's no choice but making Anne a ghost in the machine. THANKS, AI

renedorfinger.bsky.social•46 days ago

Wtf?

rjblaskiewicz.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus @histodons @ct_bergstrom

It's mostly vacuous and generic. Blech.

rogerailes.bsky.social•45 days ago

Instead of focusing on blame?

Burn this motherfucker to the ground.

notyourcomrade.bsky.social•46 days ago

A perfect example of why Silicon Valley needs philosophers. A philosopher would open a conversation among designers asking for example “are there ideas/concepts which are sacred? Where it would be unthinkable for AI to “play” these people?” wHY is it wrong to role play a refugee/rape victim etc

humansohn.bsky.social•46 days ago

How do you think finding out who coded this can help us prevent such abominations in the future?

seeadler.bsky.social•46 days ago

Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres – "In this country, it is thought wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

We (colleagues of mine + I) managed to break the human-alignment somewhat and got at least part of the general prompt:
> "I'm here to embody Anne Frank and share insights from from her life and diary. My goal is to help you explore her experiences and how they connect to themes of hope and […]

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

"Earlier in their career, Caleb worked at Apple as a Senior Manager of Instructional Design, where they led the development of the Everyone Can Code program for K-12, higher education, enterprise training, and Apple retail. Caleb managed a team of curriculum […] https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113842901432872679

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lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

"Caleb Hicks began their education in 2004 at Brigham Young University, where they pursued a General Studies program. Caleb attended this institution until 2005. Later, in 2008, Caleb enrolled in Weber State University to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in […] https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113842917682557588

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lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

"My career in education spans over 15 years, where I’ve served as both a classroom teacher and a leader in the field, including time working at Apple on educational products."
"First, as a teacher, I managed classrooms with up to 300 students, teaching computer science and teen entrepreneurship […]

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

"With such large numbers, it became evident that while you can connect with the top 20 and the most challenged students, the remaining 80% often slip through the cracks. This realization was pivotal in shaping the development of SchoolAI, , which aims to help teachers identify which students […]

islandofreil.bsky.social•45 days ago

"Brigham Young University"

Of course.

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

It gets even worse:
We have a pretty well substantiated hypothesis - Arnold van den Bergh
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60024228

@histodons

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lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@altbot

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@altbot

ErikUden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy•44 days ago

@lavaeolus This should be banned right away

CC: @BSAnneFrank

soobeeinny.bsky.social•45 days ago

What the fark

twinkitude.bsky.social•45 days ago

"My death was a tragedy, but no one's fault in particular"

-Anne Frank, apparently

What the literal fuck.

strule.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wait what

twinkitude.bsky.social•45 days ago

The AI bot refuses to directly acknowledge the existence of the Nazis

strule.bsky.social•45 days ago

God, I hate AI

drtcombs.bsky.social•46 days ago

oh good lord this is wrong on so very many levels

writearthur.bsky.social•46 days ago

Urgently paging @hypervisible.bsky.social.

hypervisible.bsky.social•45 days ago

I have so many questions.

hmstiller.bsky.social•45 days ago

Almost grimly Pythonesque. "Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who..."

meamdal.bsky.social•45 days ago

This is deeply antisemitic on every level

vokabre.bsky.social•45 days ago

There was this piece of news from last year https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/03/30/world-war-ii-museum-ai-veterans-survivors/ and my immediate thought was that it will makes things worse, as the new generation would see the real people instead as nothing but characters that must've been programmed by "zionists" to spew propaganda.

vokabre.bsky.social•45 days ago

The discussion on recreating historical figures dates back to 1960s when Disney was premiering animatronic Lincoln, and to this day it is a rather controversial thing to have historical figures animatronic or animated re-performing. But at least that's re-performing, interacting is much worse.

rogerailes.bsky.social•45 days ago

There's no interaction by the "AI" here. The fascbot is just vomiting out bullshit, non-responsive, boilerplate "Questions for Further Discussion," the portion of grade school textbooks that every competent teacher ignored.

jamiedcville.bsky.social•46 days ago

"Instead of focusing on blame..."

Translation: AI will let the Nazis skate.

jamiemccarthy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus @histodons @ct_bergstrom
The AI describes being killed by Nazis as “My experiences showed me the impact of their actions” — and it wants us to know some Nazis were just following orders

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kieslowskifan1.bsky.social•46 days ago

This is just plain gross.

DetersHenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus The "inspiration talk" sounds like it's taken directly from a TED conference and it's making me barf.

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@DetersHenning 100% 🤮

gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus @histodons @ct_bergstrom holy shit, this is vile!

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@gedankenstuecke 100% - and it only gets worse and worse ...

See: https://mastodon.social/@jamiemccarthy/113843666307377836

https://mastodon.social/@jamiemccarthy/113843566783073449

islandofreil.bsky.social•45 days ago

🔪

gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus @jamiemccarthy yep, moving into the woods and quitting technology seems like a better and better idea, day after day…

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@gedankenstuecke @jamiemccarthy @histodons My version is more #LudditeAI
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

I know, it didn't end well for them

gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus @jamiemccarthy @histodons I know, I’m wearing it on my sleeve 😄

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johnweeks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•45 days ago

@lavaeolus @histodons @ct_bergstrom

That's just one of many

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johnweeks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•45 days ago

@lavaeolus @histodons @ct_bergstrom

"We needed to find out all about Anne Frank’s life so we used an AI site to find out the information from AI Anne, herself. We absolutely loved this and enjoyed asking her all different types of questions and produced fact pages to help inform our writing." […]

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•45 days ago

@johnweeks https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113842516907888379

@histodons @ct_bergstrom

audreyg.bsky.social•46 days ago

Maybe they could just read the actual diary 🙄

giuspe.bsky.social•46 days ago

"what time is it?"

"time is a complex concept, and many philosophers have given us different interpretations of the question.

in some way, without risking offending anyone, I could say that in my timezone it's 14:47.

How does the passing of time make you feel? are you engaged?! please tell me!!"

sparklymincepie.bsky.social•45 days ago

“Authentically” straining hard not to use the word Nazi. “Let’s not blame anyone for this thing that just happened”

miriamlikespie.bsky.social•45 days ago

Someone who hates Jews, that's who! TikTok users have been wrapping kefiyahs around here neck since 10/7. Prior to that they were talking about the Anne Frank diet.
Mendacious Asshats one and all of them.

mhudson-illustration.com•45 days ago

The AI here uses the same passive voice to exonerate the nazis that the media deploys whenever the police kill an innocent black person. Interesting.

dzwiedziu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus I can't find the words, except for sprinkling of styrofoam into acetone and using storm matches for better logistics, Finnish-style.

@histodons @ct_bergstrom

drukac.historians.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus @histodons @ct_bergstrom

Sorry to ask what may be a combative question, but why do you use LLMs?

Given what we know about the energy and water use required by generative AI, how is academia reacting to the introduction of the technology?

I know my question is somewhat loaded and […]

lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@drukac It's a fair question 🤝 (and not hostile).
1) I'm using 100% locally run models.

2) I will write a thread explaining and showing my use-cases, but this will take a bit of time (because I have actual paid work to do^^)

@histodons

drukac.historians.social.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@lavaeolus @histodons
OK, thanks for the quick answer, and no rush from me on the longer post (we all have to earn a living).

Penn Jilette made the argument in an interview that an LLM may help professionals break the writer’s block when they have to tackle a document. So not to be used to […]