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Graham Knapp<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>simon</span></a></span> any plans for what to do in a few months when the new LLMs will have seen these in their training data ? 😃 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a></p>
Mark Dang-Anh<p>What if a machine eats itself (or its excretions)?<br> <br>If large language models generate more and more text, trained on more and more generated text - do we end up in a streamlined linguistic monoculture?</p><p>🤔 </p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/trainingdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trainingdata</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/redigestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redigestion</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullshit</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/monoculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monoculture</span></a></p>
a mossy cat<p>yk our society may be like a serpent constantly consuming it's own tail doomed to create and solve the same problems over and over again</p><p>but at least it's OUR-oboros</p><p><a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/pun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pun</span></a> <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/sorry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sorry</span></a></p>
Mitchell Whitelaw<p>Visiting a shiny new neighbour today - Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros at the NGA. A wonderful object, mind-bending to photograph</p><p><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/publicart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicart</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/canberra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canberra</span></a></p>
bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davidgerard</span></a></span> among others, have long been warning that the <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> giants are running out of content to consume for “training”, and they're getting desperate for more.</p><p>No surprise at all: <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/SamAltman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamAltman</span></a>, being the kind of person who's so contemptuous of human <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> they think an <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> can do it, proposes the robots will just generate more training data themselves! What could go wrong?</p><p>“Prof. Sammut says generative AI systems have big limitations because chatbots lack critical thinking.</p><p>““These systems are based on doing pattern matching, they are very good at that, but they can’t do any sort of logical sequential reasoning.”</p><p>“A chatbot can only tell you 1+1=2 because someone told it so, not because it learned how to do arithmetic.”</p><p><a href="https://newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/11/a-synthetic-solution-for-ai-as-chatbots-run-out-of-road/78949/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">1/a-synthetic-solution-for-ai-as-chatbots-run-out-of-road/78949/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/ArtificialStupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialStupidity</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/HabsburgAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HabsburgAI</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ouroboros</span></a></p>
JustinInside Lindy Lee's new Ouroboros sculpture. Unveiled today at the National Gallery of Australia.<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/LindyLee?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LindyLee</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Ouroboros?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ouroboros</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Sculpture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sculpture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/LookingThroughHoles?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LookingThroughHoles</a><br> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/ShinySteel?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShinySteel</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Curves?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Curves</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Holes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holes</a> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Canberra?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canberra</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/NationalGalleryOfAustralia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalGalleryOfAustralia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Photography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a><br> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/LeicaM?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LeicaM</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Elmarit28ASPH?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elmarit28ASPH</a>
Steven Heywood<p>If you're wondering why so many trains are late running or cancelled due to lack of train crew it's because the train crew are stuck waiting for late running or cancelled trains.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTransport</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NorthernFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernFail</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a></p>
Daniela Schreiter<p>Ouroboros O’s: Brings out the eternal snake in you!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/CursedRelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CursedRelics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/CursedRelics2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CursedRelics2024</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ComicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComicArt</span></a></p>
Blockforest<p>Day 12: Reaper <br>Another little Memento Mori, when I do these they are only 8x8cm so very fiddly and really make me consider what I can achieve in a small space. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reaper</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mdwc24d12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mdwc24d12</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mabsdrawlloweenclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mabsdrawlloweenclub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drawingchallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drawingchallenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/print" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>print</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/printmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/october" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>october</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/halloween" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>halloween</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spooky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spooky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mementomori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mementomori</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/miniprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>miniprint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ink</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skeleton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skeleton</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snake</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spookyseason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spookyseason</span></a></p>
petedefazio<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FelineFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FelineFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> pose on the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CatsOfMastodon</span></a></p>
mikepop<p>Raccouroboros<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/raccoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raccoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtShare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtShare</span></a></p>
Tjb51<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@valen1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>valen1</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@pinskal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pinskal</span></a></span> Made famous in the TV Comedy Red Dwarf...Our Rob or Ross. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/reddwarf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reddwarf</span></a></p>
Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 <p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>coreyspowell</span></a></span> <br>🥥 The pattern of Earth's movement in space over time traces an Ouroboros, thanks to the effects of gravity! 🥥<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InterplanetaryGravity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterplanetaryGravity</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ouroboros</span></a></p>
Mamluke 🏳️‍🌈<p>Happy New Year! Stay Curious! </p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/janus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>janus</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/january" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>january</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/happynewyear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>happynewyear</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/lookingforward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lookingforward</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/lookingback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lookingback</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/vintageillustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintageillustration</span></a> #1608 <a href="https://historians.social/tags/17thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>17thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/vincenzocartari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vincenzocartari</span></a></p>
Riroriro :comfy:<p>Is there a name for a fictional object created in a time loop, with no beginning or end?</p><p>I remember three, what others can you think of?</p><p>Somewhere In Time, old lady gives a watch to a young man who travels back in time and gives it to her as a youth.</p><p>Dave Lister fathers himself.</p><p>Scotty takes transparent aluminium recipe from the future to 1986.</p><p><a href="https://gensokyo.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://gensokyo.social/tags/Ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ouroboros</span></a></p>
badstitch<p>My latest pattern on Patreon is an ouroboros!</p><p>Available until 11/15/23<br>www.patreon.com/badstitch</p><p><a href="https://socel.net/tags/crossstitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crossstitch</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/fiberarts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiberarts</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/snake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snake</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>galaxy</span></a></p>
Ashley Thomas<p>Our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LokiSeason2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LokiSeason2</span></a> coverage kicks off with Hugh discussing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Loki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Loki</span></a> 2x01 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ouroboros</span></a> with returning guest Dan Owen and We Made This network chief, Tony Black. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MakeMineMarvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakeMineMarvel</span></a> <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/57182388" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">spreaker.com/episode/57182388</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
FeralRobots<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uncategory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uncategory</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://howse.social/@tj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tj</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ZachWeinersmith</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@KewlCat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KewlCat</span></a></span> <br>The hype-cycle forms what could charitably be characterized as an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> - &amp; less-charitably, as the business-equivalent of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanCentipede" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanCentipede</span></a> where the first person in the chain has gotten their mouth stitched to the butt of the last.</p>
FeralRobots<p>talking with some <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@rspec" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rspec</span></a></span> folks the other night about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ModelCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ModelCollapse</span></a> &amp; everyone just going to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ouroboros</span></a> as a metaphor, but it's really not adequate because ouroboros has a more cosmic connotation - it's not necessarily bad, might even signify achieving a kind of wisdom.</p><p>No, the better metaphor for "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>" model collapse is a kind of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanCentipede" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanCentipede</span></a>, except that the centipede is just stitched into a circle. A Human Centipede Ouroboros, if you will.</p>
minimoysmagician<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://octodon.social/@cwebber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cwebber</span></a></span> Lol, what a coincidence, a friend asked me yesterday to play quake3 (from before I was born 🤯​) over <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Ouroboros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ouroboros</span></a> (instead of TCP/IP)</p>