Fuck AI

I would love a common sense approach to AI with teaching. It has some good uses. Great for writing an abstract and formatting a bibliography.

But you can't just plug it and trust it. It lies and makes stuff up.

I see it as a tool that when guided by someone that knows what they are doing can be helpful and eliminate some work for an individual. I'm tired of the two main sides being "use ai for everything" and "never use ai". Where's the middle ground where we accept it's here, but also acknowledge it's massive flaws

There's even an em-dash in there...

The hole "topic is just not doing x - it's doing y" is a dead giveaway of using an LLM.

To be honest, I'm using them too. I don't know where I picked it up – books, probably – or whether I'm using them right. I don't think I ever formally learned them, and if I did, it'll have been in German and I have no idea how that transfers to Englush. I also produce slop, but that's on me being an inept writer.

That's why I find such "that's gotta be AI" judgements a bit awkward: it might genuinely be a person poorly trying to ape some writing style they saw but never understood. Just because I'm trying to sound "proper" doesn't mean I'm an AI. My intelligence (or ignorance?) is entirely natural.

Edit: Come to think, I might have picked them up from a certain colleague. MBA, (ab-?)uses them all the time, sometimes in places that seem weird to me, and has done so before LLMs became such a hype. Maybe there's some school of management writing that LLMs are trying to imitate, but without any actual semantic sense for the context, neither they nor I use them in actually valid constructions?

We hardly even ever em dashes in normal writing, so who knows where LLMs picked up the tendency. Hyphen's sure, but em dashes?

I have a 1940s cookbook that has a lot of them in but they haven't really been used in modern type settings since then.

If they could do what is promised, we plebians wouldn't have access.

Humans will use anything they can for porn

But yeah. OpenAI and co are almost certainly way overvalued.

Hello Carol

4chan reinvented the Torment Nexus argument for 4chan users.

I've found they make for a great movie search engine giving a vague description of the plot, but besides that I haven't found a use.

🎖️ Understatement of the year award 🥇

I hope?

I hope someone hits Reply All with this

This was inevitable when all academic institutions were taken over by MBA sociopaths who have no concept of how anything works beyond "line goes up".

I'm not so sure in the grand scheme we are.

We are all so burnt out and so jaded, in an economy thats so flat and moribund, in a world that's so fucking upside down, that somethings got to give.

These asshole greedy pig CEOs are going to have a complete mess on their hands, when this AI bubble (because it's a bubble) pops, and it's going to be a complete mess. We are going to see companies implode literally overnight, borrowing is going to lock up, and it's going to fuck up supply chains. At a time when they need people to bear down, but everyones been forced to RTO against their will, for flat paychecks while these assholes hoard all the cash flow for themselves at staggering levels.

Personally I think it's going to make the Great Resignation look like a picnic. I'm not always right, in fact I seldom am sometimes, but I'm starting to think the pendulum swings wildly in the employees favor on this one. When shit goes sideways, that's going to also be the moment of the boomer implosion, where all the seventy year old execs and the mid to later 50s guys and gals leave with the bags, and I mean the job needs done, now in a challenging environment maybe. But you've pissed most of your employees off with this AI shit and their flat paychecks, to the point where sure they are hanging on collecting a cheque, but most everybody has quiet quit on you. Could be interesting, maybe.

Can't wait to get paid for several months deliberately sabotaging AI until someone realizes what I'm up to

Every US college/community college shills handshake. Mine forced me to burn a vacation day to sit in their orientation and they tried to sell handshake as some unique perk as if I hadn't seen it at every other school I'd attended. I was furious.

Use it against them. Remember the distortion can work with you, as well as against you.

My work was doing the whole "AI AI AI, use AI" blah blah blah thing. I used it at my annual review, where I showed I should have both an executive title and my salary should be about $200k higher. I also told my team and my fellow coworkers to do the same.

It's funny how we haven't heard boo from the executive about AI for about 3 or 4 months now.

This goes both ways, right? Malicious compliance and all of that.

I did essay this way for some bullshit AI lessons on univ. Not gonna waste my time on this topic tbh.