I hope this person who coded the AI-eating machine has pillows that always have a cool side, can find parking right out front every time, and their toast always lands peanut-butter side up. www.404media.co/email/7a39d9... - ThreadSky

susankayequinn.bsky.social • 33 days ago

I hope this person who coded the AI-eating machine has pillows that always have a cool side, can find parking right out front every time, and their toast always lands peanut-butter side up.

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sadieros.bsky.social•33 days ago

🤣🤣🤣 love this

cchock.bsky.social•33 days ago

Hmmm. Is this fantasy or exists? If this creates an infinite energy usage loop, the climate is really screwed!

susankayequinn.bsky.social•33 days ago

It’s real and the idea is to stop the headlong rush of AI by making it impossible to steal data, thus cutting off the massive rampup of data centers and energy usage.

cchock.bsky.social•33 days ago

I love the aim! I’m asking if the trapped bot circulates in yet another loop that Itself continues to burn energy?

paulmcmc.bsky.social•33 days ago

They burn energy regardless. At least this stops them from doing anything harmful while they do so.

cchock.bsky.social•31 days ago

The shortstop ==> apprentice’s brooms as hoses that keep multiplying exponentially while the fires keep raging! bury them with traps AND laws e.g. NYS: “https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/11/assembly-member-anna-kelles-talks-about-how-cryptomining-moratorium-victory-came-together/380272/“

marciemay.bsky.social•33 days ago

I would make them all the cookies!

juniperriver.bsky.social•33 days ago

May their beverages always be precisely the right temperature

shrikebait.bsky.social•33 days ago

Incredible name too

isobelstarling.bsky.social•33 days ago

While I love the idea that this indefinitely traps AI training web crawlers 'in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power.'

But surely that wastes yet more energy?

susankayequinn.bsky.social•33 days ago

surely it does, something AI companies would rather not have happen, costs spiraling up while quality dwindles, it's an inherent part of the trap

isobelstarling.bsky.social•33 days ago

They don't seem to care about costs spiraling as there's always another gullible venture capitalist willing to give more money. 🫠

susankayequinn.bsky.social•33 days ago

That's fair, it's more about poisoning the dataset with bad data and wasting their time there when they could be out stealing valuable data