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One of my colleagues tried Copilot in Office 365 for the first time a few weeks ago, and it scheduled an offsite meeting with completely the wrong person.
The best argument for asking people to use AI in moderation or quit it altogether is to just ask them to use AI for stuff and monitor how much of the stuff it gets right. (You know how the usual excuse goes - "Oh, don't worry, we're just using it as a tool"? Well use it like a tool then. Regular apps screw things up all the time, why is this one special? You have to babysit it.)
I use LLMs for image captioning, and it gets stuff right, I dunno, 75% of time. It's genuinely handy in that I keep tossing it images that I have just thumbnails to work off of in the normal workflow and it can see stuff I forgot of because I'm a scatterbrain like that. But it can't understand context, so I have to edit the captions anyway. And when it cocks up, it cocks up big time.
use free software to caption your images https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
i dont understand how ai would be useful for that
Maybe I was unclear: I need to write alt-texts for images. I currently use a web service for generating those. Drag a JPEG in, it spits out a text string. Yeah, I know, I could just open every image in a giant big viewer and type what I see, but having AI assisting it takes maybe 15 minutes out of the workflow, total. Even with the mistakes it makes. And it makes a lot.
Oh
To me a "caption" is text that is part of the image, not alt text.
That clears it up
Actual sensible use of AI
If you need to do them in bulk it can give you a good start. I'm as against AI replacing humans as anyone, but we have to be clear eyed about what it's capabilities are.
The AI is creating the captions.
I've been experimenting with using AI to clean up graphics I've made, and the other day I was trying to get it to distribute the points of light on a sun graphic evenly around the center circle, without changing any of the shapes or colors. Just distribute the 12 points evenly like a clock.
It couldn't do it for the longest time. It would spit out the original graphic with no changes. Or it would get it perfectly but change the shape of the points. Infuriatingly, whenever I would give it a new prompt, it would repeat it back to me, but make dumb suggestions. I'd have to refuse the suggestions, and demand the original prompt, and it would still ask more questions.
I finally had to scream at it in caps, tell it to stop asking stupid questions, and just do what my simple prompt has asked it to do MULTIPLE times.
Then it finally did what it was told. What was literally a 60 second assignment, took 15 minutes of increasing frustration because the AI would NOT follow my orders until I screamed at it. It had its own agenda.
That's supposed to be an improvement? AI sounds and acts like the dumbest employee ever.
They're just modeling human behavior at the end of the day. Or at least what they think is human enough, it's hilarious that in a way they mess up worse than regular people and they're being pitched as coworkers.
I mean we're probably all screwed but hey at least the Earth will be on fire while we meme it up.