Alice* says she feels “not in the slightest” guilty about using ChatGPT to complete training tasks, saying it is easy to get away with as long as you instruct chatbots to avoid the usual telltale signs of AI output, like a preponderance of em-dashes. “It’s only the sloppiest of users that get caught,” she says. “Anyone with a modicum of awareness around AI hallmarks can tell their output not to use them, and at that point what are you going to do?”
Another worker, Bob*, worked for a training platform called Outlier. Initially, he was tasked with AI training, which he says he illicitly used AI for, and was then promoted to a leadership role where part of his job was to catch others doing the same thing.
Don’t worry, the tech bros sold the gullible execs on no more employees, just profits and so our entire economy is now based on completely unrealistic profit assumptions and circular lending dependencies that will collapse when the bubble inevitably bursts. Somehow this will harm the poor the most.
Maybe we can kick the can down the road so biosphere collapse gets us first.
Reminds me of the movie Multiplicity, clones of clones just getting dumber
Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.
God I wish I could sleep
Lol. Lmao even
Dead AI Theory?
Model collapse is the technical term
No, model collapse is the result. The process is more like if the Human Centipede was an ouroboros and also a vampiric fractal Markov chain.
We actually made an ouroboros. Hooray
Maybe if we force feed the Sloppies their own slop, they’ll slop themselves to death! Fight slop with slop.
Yup. LLMs won’t go away unless and until they collapse in on themselves, so I say let’s accelerate it.
For anyone else reading, this plan is pretty naive. They’d just cut back to an earlier, un-poisoned model and be far more careful about who trains them, and how. Even if the general public briefly loses trust in the whole concept, that’s not where the money is anyway.
Shhh…You’re ruining the mob’s fantasy!
“Management vacillated between light tolerance to outright banning,” says Bob. Workers at Outlier would be tracked with a tool called Hubstaff which takes screenshots of their desktop at random intervals to ensure they are really doing tasks as ordered. Bob would look for evidence of AI models in those screenshots.
Those screenshots and recordings are a treasure trove if ever/when they are externally compromised.
Recently was in a CTF where finding the stored screenshots from copilots recall was the path to the flag. A screenshot of a notepad doc that had credentials for the admin user of a compromisable service.
Doc wasn’t saved. Copilot didn’t care.
Yes, this means if you ever copy/paste a password in clear text temporarily on a machine with recall, and your user is compromised, that password could still possibly be found.
God forbid you have to edit a config file on ssh
Just point a webcam at the screen of the computer, OCR the text, feed that to an LLM, and have it type via a KVM. Limit the typing speed to human level typing. I bet there are farms in French Guiana and similar places where they do exactly this.
You don’t need the OCR step… a lot of LLM models come with “vision” They can transcribe your shaky mobile phone pictures and do their slop thing in one step. You could even wire up an output tool MCP style that feeds the slop back via keyboard USB. The perfect Slop Centipede
We can tell. This method definitely reflects the quality (or lack thereof) in the output.
Ups the model collapsed.
big if tru
They’re great at averaging.
Okay at summarizing…
…and not good for much else. But if you love slop! Boy howdy do AI companies have what you need.
Bring on the Singularity!
Shitularity.
