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But in a way where he can pay them less!

I didn’t watch any of it, but clicked a few points in time to see if there was some kind of reveal and came across this gem at 1:52:52

Am I missing something or is this just for generic, low tech “I need a website” use cases?

We already have tons of prebuilt websites available to slot someone’s shitty home business into too. AI slop is just a worse version of the things we already had.

One thing good about AI is the bot will look for skills, education, knowledge, and experience.

There is zero chance the AI will do that more effectively than the existing process where applications are screened for those exact things already. AI will most likely do an even worse job.

I’m not mad at you, just disappointed.

We need to figure out how to appropriately use it to make our lives better and mitigate the bad.

Require AI companies to respect personal data rights and to not force it on everyone. We use AI in science and technology as a tool where the data used for training is comparable to the data used for models and humans verify the output, which is the appropriate way to use it to make our lives better and the process mitigates the bad.

It is the megacops that are choosing to use it in the worst fucking ways that is the problem.

it isn’t AI

That is why I am pushing back on using these terms!

Yes, I am fully aware of the term’s origin and it was clever at the time but it is important to point out that it is not literally accurate due to how LLMs and other AI are being promoted currently. Calling them hallucinations, saying they invent things, or anything else that sounds anthropomorphic is used by the companies selling the products to deflect from the fact that what is currently being shoved down our throats are unreliable bullshit generators.

No.

AI doesn’t do that either. That is another example of trying to make AI sound like it has reasoning and intent like a person instead of the pattern matching weighted randomizer that it is.

Pretty telling that you see me expressing disagreement with someone else’s beliefs and explaining my viewpoint is ‘peeing’ on theirs. It isn’t like I told someone that ‘anyone with intelligence’ would have a different view like I got for simply stating that gods don’t exist.

There is no evidence or need for a higher self. I am me and I will exist until I die and there is no need for anything beyond the immense universe we live in to give purpose or meaning to existence.

The AI mashed information together that didn’t go together in that context and returned something that was not correct. It was wrong, but did not invent anything.

I don’t view ‘god’ as anything because gods don’t exist.

You are the co-author of your own narrative, with the only other author being whatever you view God as.

You are the only author.

Yahoo could go back to the directory approach and advertise as having less SEO garbage and AI slop.

The association between AI use and laziness perceptions is dependent upon the evaluators’ own AI use, and perceptions of laziness can be offset for tasks in which AI is clearly useful.

This work demonstrated that the use of productivity-enhancing tools can, paradoxically, erode social evaluations of their operators’ competence and motivation.

I do remember calculators being referred to as a crutch in the context of learning mathematics because doing the work was part of learning. The expectation was that harder work would be suitable after learning how to do the work first, so you knew if the output matched what you intended to input. There has always been concerns about over reliance on automation of any type.

But AI is so unreliable that a calculator is not a good comparison. It often is being used as a crutch as well, since everyone who openly talks about using AI at my office seem to just copy/paste the output and don’t do anything to clean up the incorrect parts. That is what gives the appearance of being lazy or less competent to those of us who see the downsides as outweighing the benefits. Those that are all in on AI sure do like patting each other on the back about using the hot new tools though!

There is a change. Instead of people engaging with the shitty data harvesting voluntarily due to being unaware it is being forced on everyone including those who are aware.

I can guarantee all the ‘opt out’ choices are lies and they are harvesting the data anyway.

“AI design is inherently defective and will never work correctly.”

Guess we need to jam it into more things!

LLMs are the culmination of the work done on search engines to find words and phrases relation to other words. Even the ones that aren’t “chatbots”, use similar methodology to try and get you what you’re looking for. That’s what propelled Google to the top of search.

Then why is LLM output worse than google from 10+ years ago? 10+ years ago I could type pretty much anything I thought of into google and get results that matched what I was looking for. LLMs just vomit up something that looks like it could be what I’m looking for, but isn’t.