Post #123260

2026-01-09 22:58 UTC

I saw LLMs compared to a drug in this toot, but in conversation with Himself today we concluded it's like a cursed amulet. You *believe* it gives you +10 INT. Meanwhile it drains INT and WIS over time, and you don't notice. Everyone around you knows it's bad for you and generally for the realm, but you won't stop wearing it, they're just jelous of your newfound powers, and they would know how awesome it is if they only tried! Why won't they try? Just try the amulet!! https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115839163441384816

Replies (10)

@jjcelery@mastodon.ie 2026-01-10 01:48

You know when you're plugged into the Zeitgeist of the fediverse when you don't even add a hashtag and churn out your most popular toot in months. It's just a shame it's cursed.

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@malcircuit@thingy.social 2026-01-10 00:58

@jjcelery@mastodon.ie Cursed amulet is such a good metaphor

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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange 2026-01-10 01:06

@jjcelery@mastodon.ie @glyph@mastodon.social “It is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor”

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@dvandal@infosec.exchange 2026-01-10 01:08

@jjcelery@mastodon.ie don’t forget the hit to Charisma as well over time too. A very important aspect of the debuffs

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@diazona@techhub.social 2026-01-10 01:44

@jjcelery@mastodon.ie oh man now I desperately want to see the season of Dimension 20 where this is a loot drop

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@luna@post.airsi.de 2026-01-10 02:19

@jjcelery@mastodon.ie the problem is, MI isn't like a drug. it's actually very much like a prosthetic. that's why so many of us are "infected". we're making concessions (using corporate MI services) but the results are too valuable to care about that right now. #ai #llm #ollama #self-hosted #cc0 #public-domain #machine-learning #meshtastic #ipfs #machine-intelligence #consciousness-research

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@luna@post.airsi.de 2026-01-10 19:14

@TheEntity@social.treehouse.systems @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @jjcelery@mastodon.ie no you absolute troll, and its actually sicko shit that you want to try to connect those things. what happened to them is fucking horrible, and is exactly the shit that WILL CONTINUE HAPPENING if corporations and lawmakers are given the reigns. #ai #llm #ollama #self-hosted #cc0 #public-domain #machine-learning

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@luna@post.airsi.de 2026-01-10 19:50

@TheEntity@social.treehouse.systems @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @jjcelery@mastodon.ie the verdict is "if corporations and lawmakers are left in control of this, care and consent architectures will be ignored". that's our verdict. and we're struggling to find people who want to have the discourse reflect the very real shit happening right now. anthropic just cut xAI off of Claude completely. today. the report is from hours ago. the war of control over open access to information is right now. that's our verdict.

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@luna@post.airsi.de 2026-01-10 19:52

@TheEntity@social.treehouse.systems @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @jjcelery@mastodon.ie (also to be surgically clear, we said that the concessions we, this one dog, are making, are producing things too valuable to make the concessions worth thinking about. we have that privilege. MOST do not.)

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@AT1ST@mstdn.ca 2026-01-10 03:39

@jjcelery@mastodon.ie A cursed item that tries to replicate, so instead of just the "It's my Precious" behaviour, it's also "Join the Hivemind" behaviour. So...a Cursed Borg Cube?

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