• fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    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

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 days ago

      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. doomjak

    • semioticbreakdown [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      10 days ago

      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.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 days ago

      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