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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 26, 2026

Replying to @thermia__dup_8108@sk.girlthi.ng

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng like with the ?si= and other tracking things? i imagine a plugin that takes all the tracking links for a given video that have been generated so far and shuffles them around as to make them useless for tracking sadly i cant write it, though

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 22, 2026

Replying to @colinmford@typo.social

@colinmford@typo.social this seems to imply that a bad actor with a lot of money could bias all the google search results for particular questions or topics, right?

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 12, 2026

imagining a dictator becoming an "eternal ruler" by training an LLM on their speech and putting it in charge

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 12, 2026

god i love copper

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 11, 2026

i am kinda saddened by the loss of the US penny.
I know it doesn't make sense(ha) from a money standpoint, but there is a very strong desire in me to hoard copper objects

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 07, 2026

Replying to @link@js.meowingwo.men

@link@js.meowingwo.men that goes so hard it would work as a writing prompt too

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 06, 2026

Replying to @lusrangifer@blimps.xyz

@lusrangifer@blimps.xyz it gives me ideas! a Lilac mermaid could be cool

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · May 03, 2026

Replying to @dragonarchitect@rubber.social

@dragonarchitect happy birthday!

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @zzt@mas.to

@zzt@mas.to i have seen this elsewhere as part of the ‘centrist” mindset, which is to avoid “noise’ at all costs. They consider nazis bad because they screamed racial hatred and made a fuss, and that is “noise” to them. but they also consider standing up for yourself to be ‘noise’. so in that mindset, “both sides’ means ‘both sides are equally noisy”. which as far as worldviews go, sucks ass.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Mar 12, 2026

Replying to @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster

@1 this site is unkind to my four eyed emoticons

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Mar 12, 2026

Replying to @1@mastodon.vierkantor.com

@1 this one has been compared to sheldon sooooooooo many times i hate it : : <

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster

@CStamp also, perhaps worse, CEOs could pull a weekend at bernie’s and create an LLM trained on them to carry out company (or country) decisions after they’re gone, solidifying their rule for (theoretically) eternity.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @CStamp__dup_292@mastodon.social

@CStamp I wonder if this can be used (by police) to fight against some kinds of warrant canaries (perhaps not the right term?) Imagine if someone is arrested. The police could then hook an AI into their social medias and nobody would know they were even missing. So a “i stop updating this if i arrested” could be defeated. The AI hooked into social media could then act as an informant on the arrested person’s friends

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Mar 01, 2026

Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social

@fesshole congratulations, and i'm so sorry.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 28, 2026

Replying to @tanzureir@rubber.social

@tanzureir @pewtrew it looks so cool!!!!

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 27, 2026

Replying to @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

@ngaylinn ah yes we have built the torment nexus, please use responsibly! we are so ethical.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

@ngaylinn i'm not sure that this has the plasticity of normal brains - memories aren't just data, they're connections between the neurons. Whereas in memory-augmented systems, they're separate. I feel a dissonance in myself because technically, this does address some of the issues with "agents", but I can't help but feel there's still something major missing other than the fact they're being used to terrorize open source devs and all the other ethical problems

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

@ngaylinn Another bit I remember is that these models in the wild don't "learn" like for the matplotlib agent, you had people in the comments trying to explain to the "agent" why it was denied. And it was just - pointless. The "agent" has the capacity to respond, but it doesn't have the capacity to rewire itself to do better next time. (That is not to say that it is impossible to make an agent that *does* learn in the wild, but that has its own problems, see Microsoft's "Tay")

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster

@ngaylinn but for "agents", they just use more language as the internal regulating mechanism. If you assume philosophy is a game played with language, then LLMs would be approximating thought, but that's a hell of an assumption.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

@ngaylinn i mean there is a large disconnect with how effective coding assistants are and how effective they *feel*. LLMs appear to be at least a half-decent approximation of the left half of the brain, "hallucinations" and all but humans seem to have that damped down internally - as in internal mechanisms make some of those weird ideas go away LLMs/"agents" have no real internal state than be used as a fallback there is the system prompt - but that can be overwhelmed as the model continues

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

@ngaylinn I have seen some of these "agents" out, and they seem to have the same problems the "agents" that were told to govern a vending machine would collapse the longer it was operational etc and there was the shenanigans about the "agent" that tried to push an update to matplotlib then published a hit piece when it was denied so they *seem* to have the same problems as normal LLMs, but it's harder to say exactly how because their abilities seem to better approximate human abilities.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 12, 2026

Replying to @dragonarchitect@rubber.social

@dragonarchitect @Temrin roos are cool! i think i'll end up in australia soon enough

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 02, 2026

Replying to @Loosf@yiff.life

@Loosf it's really good! I like the style and the situation!

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Jan 31, 2026

Replying to @Loosf@yiff.life

@Loosf@yiff.life as a coder and a programmed device myself, i steer clear of them if there were a silver lining, it probably would be that my skills are getting better in comparison.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Jan 13, 2026

Replying to @dk@tldr.nettime.org

@dk god, I have needed a word like this! Like - face generation. People either wear glasses or they don't, it's a binary operation. But generation via diffusion starts with a continuous feature space, and is acted upon by a continuous function. This code will function in most cases but it is fundamentally incorrect. If you take two faces, one with glasses and one without, interpolating between them will get you weird glasses melded with the face, and this is an artefact of that.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Nov 23, 2025

Replying to @Biggreenjoe@mastodon.social

@Biggreenjoe@mastodon.social @Psyche30_@mastodon.social @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt There was a shitpost going around calling it "Applied Statistics" for the same reason, but honestly "Applied Statistics" is a better name for what a lot of this is doing than a literal machine learning things

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Nov 22, 2025

Replying to @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt nobody is immune to propaganda and llm stuff can be tailored to fit you so it’s worse

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Nov 22, 2025

Replying to @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt

@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt I kind of worry that I will get sucked into it if I am forced to use it for work etc. maybe that's not justified, but by seeing how badly people want me to "just try it", it sounds like an addiction i want to steer clear of.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Aug 17, 2025

Replying to @dalias@hachyderm.io

@dalias@hachyderm.io @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange oh right, pascal's wager i forgot about that one

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Aug 17, 2025

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange it gives me ideas a difference between thinking as an individual and thinking as a collective. If one were thinking collectively, the answer to roko would be “just don’t build it lol” the tragedy of the commons would be a nonstarter (who in their right mind would trash their own stuff) these just become “paradoxes” when thinking as an individual in a larger system

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Apr 28, 2025

Replying to @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io oh no...

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Jul 26, 2024

Replying to @WahFo@meow.social

@WahFo I know thoughts can be bad sometimes. best of luck.

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Feb 21, 2024

Replying to @ElleGray@mstdn.social

@ElleGray@mstdn.social one can hope

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Jan 18, 2024

Replying to @martenson@mastodon.world

@martenson@mastodon.world oh i meant "you" to mean "someone, in general"

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Lilac @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster · Jan 17, 2024

Replying to @martenson@mastodon.world

@martenson@mastodon.world Could you train an AI on your favourite movie, and when confronted with piracy, point to OpenAI as a precedent?

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