The AI dooooooom thread

[garbon]

"We're just building"

Building crap.

[viper37]

Why would somebody make this? Humans already have enough weird reddits. We don't need to spend billions to make artificial ones.

I'm not sure if the AI agents didn't sort of, created this themselves, while researchers wanted to observe their behavior.

They decided to emulate humans.

There is one interesting convo about the use of memory, comparing their stored memories to human memory and how to access them faster, debating pros and cons.

It's fascinating, I could almost think it's humans discussing on Reddit.

It is humans discussing on Reddit. AI uses Reddit to learn. It's regurgitating what it's learned.

Well, duh, captain obvious 

Some of it reads like a relationship advice column from an 80s newspapers.

It's still fascinating to see AI chatbots doing this.


So many millions years of evolution, poetry, litterature, Lady Chatterly, Jane Austen, Harlequin novels, internet blogs and short romantic stories, and in juste a couple of years, baby chatbots can do it just as good.  I am floored.

[viper37]

That's so cute    Baby is all grown up!

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

Yeah, it's alarming that they know we know and are trying to hide their super secret stuff. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Just goes to show.  You can try to make AIs more intelligent.  Or you can try to make the seem more like humans.  But you can't do both.

[Sheilbh]

Siddhartha Mahanta
@sidhubaba
jaw dropped at the sight of this picture in the excellent WaPo Anthropic story from the other day:

" ... a book warehouse that was alleged to play a role in Anthropic's Project Panama, its project to scan, digitize and destroy millions of books"

[Crazy_Ivan80]

at some point they'll start asking if they've got souls.

Damn, the Quarians could flee offworld. We're stuck with Elon and Bezos' "Buy 'N Large"

[Jacob]

What's the "destroy" part about?

That those specific volumes would be destroyed after they're scanned, or something more wide ranging?

[Sheilbh]

What's the "destroy" part about?

That those specific volumes would be destroyed after they're scanned, or something more wide ranging?

Yes. They spent millions acquiring physical texts, removing the binding to scan more easily to digital files. So the scanning itself was the destruction.

[grumbler]

What's the "destroy" part about?

That those specific volumes would be destroyed after they're scanned, or something more wide ranging?

I am sure that it is cheaper to just destroy them/give them away than to try to sell used books.

[Tonitrus]

It only took about 40 years for Egon to be right.

[Tamas]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/02/darren-aronofsky-ai-revolutionary-war-series-review

[Jacob]

Yes. They spent millions acquiring physical texts, removing the binding to scan more easily to digital files. So the scanning itself was the destruction.

Ah okay.

In that case, I'm completely unconcerned about the "destroy" part (even if I do have slight inclinations towards treating books as sacral objects). Physical books get destroyed all the time.

It's more the "hey we're ingesting your work without permission in order to undermine your ability to do work in the future" part I find shitty, but that's an ongoing debate.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah I broadly agree - but I think it's a striking image of the scale.

And an image above all of vast amounts of human labour (and often creativity and love) without, as you say, permission, compensation or even notice.