C++ Wage Slave<p>If you think MP3 sounds good, choose a song you love that has a detailed, spacious sound, and encode it in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MP3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MP3</span></a> at low bandwidth. Hear the jangly tuning, the compression artifacts, the lack of detail and stability and the claustrophobic sound. Now that you know it's there, you'll detect it even in MP3 samples at higher bitrates.</p><p>This toot is actually about <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a>. If you can, download <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ollama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ollama</span></a> and try some small models with no more than, say, 4bn parameters. Ask detailed questions about subjects you understand in depth. Watch the models hallucinate, miss the point, make logical errors and give bad advice. See them get hung up on one specific word and launch off at a tangent. Notice how the tone is always the same, whether they're talking sense or not.</p><p>Once you've seen the problems with small models, you'll spot them even in much larger models. You'll be inoculated against the idea that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> are intelligent, conscious or trustworthy. That, today, is an important life skill.</p>