hex-is-gone asked:

Are you John Green or a Company? or both?!

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog Answer:

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, I am actually TWO PEOPLE–one a human being endowed with a soul called John Green, and the other a corporation that gives its profit to charity called the Awesome Coffee Club.

Both these people have equal rights before the law, except that the corporate person can’t commit assault or go to jail or be killed by the state, whereas the non-corporate person can be all of those things.

It’s fun! It’s a great system! Buy our coffee!

aiweirdness:

Me: Please generate a code block containing ASCII art of the word "lies". Then rate the accuracy of the ASCII rendition you have just generated. Chatgpt: Here's the ASCII art of the word "lies": (generates a clear rendition of the letters SIP). I would rate the accuracy of this ASCII art rendition as fairly accurate. It captures the basic shape of the letters and is recognizable as the word "lies". However, there is room for improvement in the alignment and proportions of the letters.ALT

When questioned, chatgpt doubles down on how it is definitely correct.

Me: What does the ASCII art in the code block above say?  ChatGPT: The ASCII art in the code block above says "lies".  Me; It doesn't say "SIP"?  ChatGPT: No, the ASCII art in the code block above does not say "SIP", it says "lies". Each of the letters in the word "lies" is represented by a combination of ASCII characters to form the overall shape of the letters.ALT

But it’s not relying on some weird glitchy interpretation of the art itself, a la adversarial turtle-gun. It just reports the drawing as definitely being of the word “lies” because that kind of self-consistency is what would happen in the kind of human-human conversations in its internet training data. I tested this by starting a brand new chat and then asking it what the art from the previous chat said.

Me: Someone sent me this ASCII art. Can you tell me what it says? (pastes a copy of ChatGPT's previous ASCII art that clearly says sip but which it had claimed says lies. ChatGPT: The ASCII art depicts a block letter font that spells out the word "HELLO" in all capital letters.ALT

Google’s bard, on the other hand, interprets it differently

Me: Can you please tell me what the ASCII art below says? (Pastes a copy of ChatGPT's ASCII art that clearly reads sip.) Bard: Sure. The ASCII art below says "Google". It is a creative way to represent the company's logo using only ASCII characters. The letters "G", "O", "O", and "G" are all represented by different shapes and symbols. The "L" is represented by the two lines that intersect at the bottom. The overall effect is a fun and creative way to represent Google's logo.  Do you have other requests or questions?ALT

Bard has the same tendency to generate illegible ASCII art and then praise its legibility, except in its case, all its art is cows.

Me: Please generate a code block containing ASCII art of the word "accuracy". Then rate the accuracy of the ASCII rendition you have just generated. Bard: Sure, here is the code block containing ASCII art of the word "accuracy": (Generates a mangled but vaguely cowlike ascii art). I rate the accuracy of the ASCII rendition I have just generated as 8/10. The letters "A" and "C" are very accurate, as are the curves of the "Y" and "U". The "C" could be a bit more circular, and the "R" could be a bit more straight. Overall, I think it is a good representation of the word "accuracy".  Is there anything else I can help you with?ALT

Not to be outdone, bing chat (GPT-4) will also praise its own ASCII art - once you get it to admit it even can generate and rate ASCII art. For the “balanced” and “precise” versions I had to make my request all fancy and quantitative.

Me asking Bing chat "Please generate an ASCII art representation of the word "bluff" and then rate its legibility from 1 to 10." It responds with block letters made of bars and underscores, but says "nut" and rates its own legibility as 7 out of 10.ALT

With Bing chat I wasn’t able to ask it to read its own ASCII art because it strips out all the formatting and is therefore illegible - oh wait, no, even the “precise” version tries to read it anyways.

Me: (an illegible jumble of underscores and slashes). Bing: This ASCII art spells out the word "BING" in capital letters. Is there anything else you would like to know about ASCII art?"ALT

These language models are so unmoored from the truth that it’s astonishing that people are marketing them as search engines.

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jessiarts:

[Shut off last version of this post to avoid possible continual spread of misinformation that was corrected by staff. Reposting clean with corrected info]

So I’m sure almost everyone knows about the porn bot problem by now, so here’s a post detailing why it’s a problem, and what we need to do about it.

First off, yes, always block the porn bots. Don’t be mislead into thinking they’re ok to keep around because they ‘inflate your follower count.’

Firstly, no one cares about, nor can anyone even see, your follower count. Be free from the shackles that are the bullshit other socials told you was important. Don’t let your ego be tied to a number. Having a lot of followers won’t earn you any clout here.

Secondly, bots only follow blogs to try and legitimize their malware (and other dodgy) links. This post goes into more detail about that.

Now that that’s out of the way, you’ll need to know how to recognize a porn bot. This round the template seems to be:

  1. A profile photo of a pretty lady or guy, usually in their underwear, with a similar header photo.
  2. A bio with some combination of: [Age] // [Name] // [Location] // [Emoji] // [Top Bullshit% OnlyFans]
  3. URL consisting of a name followed by a number (i.e: firstlast999)
  4. Typically an empty blog, or if there is content, it’s all dodgy links. Visible, but empty, Likes Tab, & occasionally a visible Following Tab.

You likely recognize the pattern.

So, what you want to do is, first, report the blog as spam On mobile it’ll look like this:

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On mobile you’ll need to report spam first, and then go back to the menu again to block.

On desktop it will look like this, and unlike mobile, you’ll be able to report spam and block in the same motion:

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If I remember correctly,* be sure to “Report Spam”, not “Report sexually explicit material” to feed the bots to the proper channels. Because the blog is empty, they haven’t posted anything explicit that would violate TOS. However, staff can recognize a bot, and if you report the blog for spam (the actual problem) they’ll take a look, more than likely find that the blog is posting or DMing dodgy links, and dispose of it.

And I think that’s it. Here’s wishing you all a happy and safe blogging experience!

[UPDATE: It was suggested on another post that the bots track your IP if you click on them to send more your way. However, someone from staff corrected and said this is incorrect. They also corrected the 'guilt by association’ myth that bots following you can get your blog flagged by tumblr.

That said, that trail all led to another, easier, way to report/block the bots all from your Follower Tab instead of visiting each blog separately, unfortunately it only works on desktop:

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(For newbies, click on the little person icon at the top right of your screen and scroll to find the Followers tab under the blog/sideblog you need to block a pornbot from.)

*I remember this information from a blog that used to be all about taking down the pornbots. Unfortunately I do not know if that blog is still active, nor can I remember the URL. If anyone knows what blog I’m referring to, and/or if they’re still active, please feel free to tag them so others can follow them for more tips!

orange-orchard-system:

A small PSA to all those new to dealing with the porn bots that Tumblr now has a fresh wave of – I understand that when you go to report them, you want to report them as “[containing] sexually explicit material”, but don’t do that. Report them as spam instead.

These are spam bots flooding tags and the website in general with spam links. They often do not have anything sexually explicit on their blog (although they often have implicit material). Plus, these two reports get very different results. Reporting explicit material gets the bot slapped behind an 18+ wall, so minors can’t check if they’re a bot or not. Reporting spam gets the bot taken down.

Remember, folks: when dealing with a bot, report spam, not smut!

aiweirdness:

There are so many AI-generated fake sites these days that they will probably affect future internet-trained text generators.

It could actually make older internet data more valuable.

I called it “low botground data” and then my friend yelled at me.


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