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loremium commented on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders   bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/tchalla
jfengel · 14 days ago
I feel like this points out a very general problem with the law: it generates a lot of boilerplate text. Lawyers don't really read it; they skim it for the relevant bits.

Obviously lawyers should not be cheating with AI, especially when they don't even check it. But it does sound to me as if this is an opportunity to re-factor the process. We're carrying forward some ideas originally implemented in Latin, and which can be dramatically simplified.

I'm not a lawyer; I know this only in passing. And I am aware that there are big differences between law and code. But every time I encounter the law, and hear about cases like this, what I see are vast oceans of text that can surely be made more rigorous. AI is not the problem; it's pointing out the opportunity.

loremium · 14 days ago
law texts feel like a layering problem, like just decoration around decoration to avoid breaking existing 'code' without ever simplifying it
loremium commented on Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)   afar.com/magazine/why-air... · Posted by u/quan
epiccoleman · 2 months ago
This is such a common annoyance on the modern internet. I've recently been playing Minecraft with my kids, with a few mods, and I've been irritated to discover that - unlike when I'd mess around with mods a decade ago - lots of the "documentation" for mods now exists only in video form.

Anyway, I built / slopped out this little wrapper for yt-dlp that I call tuber[1], and it has a feature for grabbing a video's subtitles and summarizing them with Claude, if you've got the CLI. I've found it really handy for those annoying cases where some video seems to promise info I want but I don't want to sit through ten minutes of bullshit.

[1]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/tuber

loremium · 2 months ago
you could also use openai whisper for transcription. takes longer but beats bad subtitles
loremium commented on The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs   hiddenlayer.com/innovatio... · Posted by u/jacobr1
codyvoda · a year ago
^I like email as an analogy

if I send a death threat over gmail, I am responsible, not google

if you use LLMs to make bombs or spam hate speech, you’re responsible. it’s not a terribly hard concept

and yeah “AI safety” tends to be a joke in the industry

loremium · a year ago
This is assuming people are responsible and with good will. But how many of the gun victims each year would be dead if there were no guns? How many radiation victims would there be without the invention of nuclear bombs? safety is indeed a property of knowledge.
loremium commented on Climate protesters storm Tesla gigafactory in Europe   wired.com/story/climate-p... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
Laaas · 2 years ago
Technically they are the reason why we don’t have small nuclear reactors.
loremium · 2 years ago
No Chernobyl is the reason why we don't have nuclear reactors. either Tokio tsunami disaster or the 600 nukes after Hiroshima should prove that mankind can't be trusted with this technology imho. there has to be a better way.

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