The random nature of LLM applications makes Verifiable Computing non-trivial and I’m not sure what the state-of-art is there.

Running inference is only pseudorandom, the output is then treated as a distribution and a pseudorandom selection is made according to the distribution. The heavy compute parts are all deterministic, the bit at the end that adds chatbot flavor is only pseudorandom.

As long as they share entropy sources, given the same seed they will always produce the same output. This is a trick that’s exploited in image generation applications, using cached execution keyed on the seed means that alterations only need to be calculated at the part of the pipeline that needs to be changed (saving all of the previous steps).

Did someone say Linux? Hello fellow human nerds, I use Arch, btw

I create a new account and am shadowbanned almost immediately for posting a single comment on r/Politics too soon?

Completely new accounts posting in r/politics is a category of users that contains a massive amount of bots. Most subreddits have a minimum karma/account age to post specifically to mitigate some of the bot problem.

You didn’t lose anything, your voice is just going to be drown by the 20,000 LLM bots and vote manipulation accounts.

Well, he was a moderator of r/jailbait

old.reddit.

+1

LLM-driven web scraping is intense for some sites, so their bot detection software is tuned in a way that creates a lot of false positives.

Obscuring your browser fingerprint, or blocking javascript, or using an unusual user-agent string can trigger a captcha challenge.

If you’re not doing that and seeing a site suddenly start giving your captchas then they may be being DDoS’d by scrapers and are challenging all clients.

A site that archives content is especially vulnerable because they have a lot of the data that is useful for AI training.

It is incredibly annoying, but until we have a robust way of proving identity that can’t be gamed by bad actors we’re stuck with individual user challenges.

Those simple and easy devices are not simple and easy inherently.

That is a result the company paying a lot of developers and designers to anticipate your needs and fix your problems before you have them. Those companies want a return on that investment and they get it in the form of your privacy and platform-enforced dependence on their services.

Who was solving your problems before then?

Every tech company in existence, in exchange for all of your privacy and now subscription fee.

For the low low price of all of your money and privacy you can avoid having to figure out how to backup your own files and have a team of developers ensuring that any kind of difficulty that you have will be fixed before you even realize it was a problem.

Once it is ensured that you will never develop those skills you are completely dependent on their services and they can keep jacking up the price.

Hate Netflix’s price increase, or password sharing restrictions? Too bad you spent 8 years not learning how to setup streaming media that you control. Hate listening to ads in order to listen to music? Well, it looks like Spotify doing everything for you has paid off for them.

Everyone has traded their privacy for convenience, if you want your privacy back then you have to give back the convenience and learn to do things for yourselves.

Prior to that they were able to function just fine by using non-classified data brokers which have access to every bit of data that can be extracted from every smart phone that has a single app that’s compromised by their spyware.

Having access to even greater surveillance data (like the data that is gathered at TITANPOINTE and other oversea cable collection locations) just lets whoever is in charge more accurately target their political opponents.

Like Snowden said in citizenfour, the collection capabilities of the NSA create a situation which would allow ‘turnkey totalitarianism’. Well, they’ve turned the key.

The Palantir tools were used to analyze the data trove that Microsoft was hosting for Israel. It contained all of the cellular data (metadata and call recording/MMS contents/data traffic) for the entirety of Palestine.

That tool’s detection of ‘terrorists’ was used to justify a massive portion of the air strikes on Palestine. Their beta test resulted in a genocide.

Palantir is complicit in war crimes and genocide, never forget that.

Now the fascists are using the terrorist language to target their political opponents in the US and using the same tools of genocide.

People wouldn’t just go on the Internet and lie… would they?

You mean we shouldn’t have a ‘while true; eval $file’ job running as root??? Goddammit, someone help me fix my remote admin script!!!

I’ve figured out how to control computers remotely and I’ll share the script:

Client:

#!/bin/bash
PASSWORD="your_password_here"
sshpass -p "$PASSWORD" scp /dev/stdin user@server:/path/to/cmd.txt <<< "$1"

Server:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
    while IFS= read -r line; do
        eval "$line"
    done < "cmd.txt"
    > "cmd.txt"
done

Just chmod 777 both files and run as root, ez.

You’ll get over it

e: You guys are some old Farkers

Seems like a standard that isn’t possible to meet. If there was a reliable way to detect bots we wouldn’t be in this situation where bots dominate social media.

I can tell you that the bot tactic of promoting outrage and vitriol is well known and the topic of AI has some of the most toxic people participating. Always bringing insults, fallacy laden ‘arguments’ and downvote spamming.

That doesn’t happen on other topics where people disagree, even in this community.

We know bots are a big problem on social media. We know the tactics that they use, they infiltrate both extremes and use those positions to sow division and anger and, in my experience, this is the topic that receives the most comments fitting that tactic.

This is the ‘Flood the Zone’ strategy used by Russia and promoted by Bannon in the last Trump admin.

It doesn’t matter if it is bullshit, in fact it is always bullshit that drives outrage. They keep doing it enough so that the news is clogged up reporting on bullshit and the algorithms are recommending bullshit instead of covering important stories in depth.

As is inventing strawman positions rather than responding to a person’s point.

Oh lol, this guy is a Moderator. From the rules of your own Reddit:

• Don’t be an asshole. If you’re reading a comment you’re about to make and think “Hmm… this sounds like the kind of comment an asshole would make” then do not make that comment. Yes, even if the other person “started it”.

That really sounds hypocritical given your responses.

In the literal sense that is true, but trivially so.

Every computer program and application is a collection of algorithms under the computer science definition of algorithm. In the context of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, TikTok when I said algorithm I mean a recommendation algorithm and, more specifically, recommendation algorithms that are intended to recommend you news or information.

If Mark Zuckerberg wants you to see a specific kind of content he can unilaterally make that happen across the planet by adjusting the parameters of the various recommendation algorithms that he controls.

That is not possible on Lemmy, as it does not use a recommendation algorithm controlled by a single individual. At best someone could attempt vote manipulation using a large number of bot accounts, but that would be detected if it is used at scale.

If you’re reading Meta, your worldview is largely controlled by one person. You may think that you’re smart enough to avoid misinformation or that your own research counters the misinformation that you see every day, but you are being psychologically primed to create mental associations which happens below the level of consciousness and is not a process that you can control. The very fact that you think that you’re immune and that your reasoning can protect you is weaponized against you.

Delete them, there is absolutely nothing on those platforms that is worth the damage that they’re inflicting on democracy around the world. These are the handmaidens of fascisim, the 21st century propaganda machines that are pumping custom designed poison into your mind.

Delete them

Who said anything about plagiarism and child porn? I was talking about the people who have no ability to actually state or defend a position and seem to believe that insults and hot takes are some kind of substitution.

Replying to a person with insults and nothing else is toxic and does nothing except make you look irrational and ignorant. As is inventing strawman positions rather than responding to a person’s point.

This is true no matter who are are or what position that you’re taking on any subject.

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