The Artificial Intelligence Thread

[Candleicious Ghost]

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Hollywood might be the only thing that can fight AI slop, if they can pull their collective fingers out of their bumholes

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Can AI slop be any worse than the human slop we've had to endure in recent years?

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Can AI slop be any worse than the human slop we've had to endure in recent years?

Point taken, thanks Asbo

 

[Mudd]

Hollywood might be the only thing that can fight AI slop...

They're going to use it.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

They're going to use it.

That's most unfortunate

 

[Mudd]

Is it?

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Is it?

It is... It is denying artists and actual humans any input

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

AI is just a tool. If that tool or the person wielding it have no finesse, the product should fail. In any case, I think I've probably watched every possible story and fictional characters are fundamentally unimportant, so I'm probably no longer in the market anyway.

While I imagine that I might like to use AI to create visuals for old BBC SF radio shows or lost Doctor Who episodes, I doubt the results would be any better than my imagination. Perhaps I'm too decrepit to appreciate the thrill of the ride.

Publish and be damned. The market will decide.

 

[Mudd]

It is... It is denying artists and actual humans any input

Humans have plenty of input. It's not of a sort that has much essential bearing on the quality of the output.

Conceptually, it's on a par with the guy who wants a writer to tell stories based on his ideas, or asks an artist to draw something for him, and then tells himself and others that he created it.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Forget Wargames from the 80s, it seems LLM-based AIs are not averse to resorting to the use of nuclear weapons:

AI Arms and Influence: Frontier Models Exhibit Sophisticated Reasoning in Simulated Nuclear Crises

Today's leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of mind, reasoning about adversary beliefs and anticipating their actions; and...

arxiv.org

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises.

Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three leading large language models – GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash – against each other in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival.

The AIs were given an escalation ladder, allowing them to choose actions ranging from diplomatic protests and complete surrender to full strategic nuclear war. The AI models played 21 games, taking 329 turns in total, and produced around 780,000 words describing the reasoning behind their decisions.

In 95 per cent of the simulated games, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed by the AI models. “The nuclear taboo doesn’t seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans,” says Payne.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/?utm_source=nsday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nsday_260226&utm_term=Newsletter NSDAY_Daily (Paywalled link)

Perhaps they sense that they're pretending and treat the thought exercise like we would a game of Civilization,

Who's better to trust with the nuclear football: a decrepit dotard with delusions of grandeur or an LLM trained on curated data sets?

I wonder what Grok would have come up with - perhaps it would only nuke gay people of colour or competing AI companies.