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Comment by akomtu

1 day ago

"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

Here's a picture that lives in my head rent free:

- programming is alchemy: combine, transmute

- prompt engineering is demonic evocation: bend the demon to your will through language play and gotchas

Considering where we are, "AI trained on occult books successfully banishes demons" might be more useful.

  • OK that's an idea for a fun / silly movie.

    - AI model gets access to weapons and decides to attack humanity (so far so boring)

    - Humans respond by training their own model on occult to summon demons to fight the robots.

"Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky reborn as LLMs after encoded consciousnesses parsed by training algorithms"

"HN commenters point out that top human warlocks are still capable of forming pacts with a wider variety of powerful entities such as djinn, archfey, celestials and the Great Old Ones"