the thing is they’re properly useful for some technical functions! And yet people want to use them for completely inappropriate things
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They are only useful for technical functions to people who already know how to do them. That's the problem. A regular algorithmic program can do a lot of that stuff without the plagiarism and climate destruction.
aug 20, 2025, 3:27 am • 155 4 • view
I'm thinking we could probably improve those algorithmic programs with a small fraction of the trillion dollars spent on AI.
aug 20, 2025, 1:32 pm • 5 0 • view
But then the billionaires couldn't justify their giant server farms!
aug 20, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
It's like grammar checkers. You have to have solid grammar knowledge to be able to judge if the suggestion is correct; and if you have solid grammar knowledge, you probably don't need a grammar checker.
aug 20, 2025, 2:20 pm • 12 0 • view
Omg so much this. If you don’t know enough to be able to spot lies and mistakes then it’s nearly useless.
aug 20, 2025, 12:24 pm • 43 1 • view
Worse than useless. People "learn" bad info. It propagates errors.
aug 20, 2025, 6:28 pm • 13 0 • view
GenAI is useful for nothing. You may be thinking of Machine Learning, which is VERY different.
aug 20, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
No, they aren't. Automated Ignorance APPEARS to be 'properly useful for some technical functions' - but without constant input from a human 'pilot', they quickly diverge from the reality we hope to explore by deploying them... bsky.app/profile/benj...
aug 20, 2025, 1:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Like vacuum cleaners
aug 21, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
they've tested this, and in general, it isn't it feels like it is because you spend less time on the task itself, but this is outweighed by time spent messing with the LLM and its output
aug 20, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
what technical functions
aug 20, 2025, 1:16 pm • 4 0 • view
What technical functions??
aug 20, 2025, 4:40 pm • 3 0 • view
people use them for anything because they're breathlessly hyped as the Second Coming of computing. Can't wait til this stupid (and harmful) bubble pops
aug 20, 2025, 3:50 am • 12 0 • view
In the US, there's more AI CAPEX this year than the entirety of consumer spending. It's going to be a rough time when the bubble pops.
aug 20, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Afaik not quite - it contributed more to growth than consumer spending did. But still nuts
aug 20, 2025, 10:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Ah, thank you for the correction - serves me right for reading quickly.
aug 21, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view