The more knowledge you have about what an LLM is and how it works the worse it feels to watch people use the damned things. I’ve got a friend who uses them for marketing copy for her job (sure, whatever), for grocery lists (uhh), for writing scripts for difficult conversations (uuuuhhhh), and as a source-of-truth search engine (UUUHH). Like she’s fully surrendering her ability to think to the Machine That Only Tells Lies. Butlerian Jihad can’t come fast enough
I overheard at the gym the other day someone getting this great idea for a book and said with a straight face “Someone should totally get AI to write that!”
I just died a little on the inside that day. It’s so depressing seeing the world be almost gleeful about delegating all creativity to an algorithm.
yeah you hit sort of an x-point of technologically illiterate digital forward people and I do believe they’re going to get unbelievably fucked by the whole ordeal on account of trusting their decision making to the hallucination machine
Yeah its fucked. These things are Completely unmoored from reality. People are outsourcing their higher cognitive functions to a machine that provably doesn’t have them. Absolutely terrifying.
My experience with it is technical knowledge correlates negatively to AI enthusiasm
The more knowledge you have about what an LLM is and how it works the worse it feels to watch people use the damned things. I’ve got a friend who uses them for marketing copy for her job (sure, whatever), for grocery lists (uhh), for writing scripts for difficult conversations (uuuuhhhh), and as a source-of-truth search engine (UUUHH). Like she’s fully surrendering her ability to think to the Machine That Only Tells Lies. Butlerian Jihad can’t come fast enough
I overheard at the gym the other day someone getting this great idea for a book and said with a straight face “Someone should totally get AI to write that!”
I just died a little on the inside that day. It’s so depressing seeing the world be almost gleeful about delegating all creativity to an algorithm.
yeah you hit sort of an x-point of technologically illiterate digital forward people and I do believe they’re going to get unbelievably fucked by the whole ordeal on account of trusting their decision making to the hallucination machine
Yeah its fucked. These things are Completely unmoored from reality. People are outsourcing their higher cognitive functions to a machine that provably doesn’t have them. Absolutely terrifying.
gun pointed at my printer, etc