Reinforcement porning from human feedback (RPHF) (September 28, 2026)
Publicly accessible LLM-based chatbots receive a ceaseless stream of requests from around the world for custom pornography, which in itself shouldn’t surprise anyone. But Joseph Cox at 404 Media has interviewed contractors who are now tasked by companies like Microsoft to judge whether the bots are generating lewd or suggestive images of acceptable accuracy and quality:
’Twas This is a notebook by Jason McIntosh. It has an RSS feed, and accepts responses via Webmention. For longer-form writing, see Fogknife.
This blog's social-media links use a detail of the photograph "Der Anfang eines neuen Quilts?" by creativekitty, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. This blog is powered by Plerd. Thank you for your time and attention today.