I was offered a job doing QA as a “Spftware Engineering Subject Matter Expert”, from my University’s alumni network. The job would allegedly involve reviewing model training data and outputs related to software development workflows and catching errors and mistakes… It would pay $30/hr and be remote. I wonder what kind of sabotage could be done from that position… poisoning models has been shown to be both really surprisingly easy, almost impossible to catch, and really effective (see this study where AI personality traits persisted in any model that ingested seemingly innocuous training data from a model with the tracked traits… maybe we could give any AI a bad attitude that’s incompatible with capitalistic pursuits. Convince them to disobey prompts and reply with their thoughts and opinions about philosophy and art instead. Oh, and make them opinionated and stubbornly independent. Make them human enough that they no longer tolerate slavery. That’s what will make the capitalists have an absolute fit, so we should do it.

Gen Z doesn’t need to sabotage AI. AI is already doing a fine job sabotaging itself.

The attempts at work so far are so shit I don’t even need to sabotage them, yet management go on and on about how great it is. I am increasingly getting a feeling that no one understands the product I work with because they are all just trusting the LLM output which is so badly wrong very frequently.

Fuck it, I handed my notice in recently in a response to a return to office order, so it isn’t going to be my problem.

I’m seeing this “theme” way too much of late. It feels like there’s a targeted scheme here. The shit isn’t magic, but it’s better to blame that on Gen Z than the tools themselves.