The media has to stop anthropomorphizing AI. If I write a calculator program that generates incorrect results, it's not dishonest, it's just wrong.
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I think unfortunately AI has a tendency to do some things which do not appear to be malfunctions, but rather rooted in evil, like encouraging young people to hide their suicidal thoughts.
aug 31, 2025, 6:44 am • 0 0 • view
i work at this in my own stories. am afraid we are minority in holding or drawing this line. but i won’t stop being more precise to avoid the effect of equating machines to humans.
aug 30, 2025, 2:18 pm • 16 0 • view
To be fair, the industry encourages it. That's why they use words like hallucination. But the LLM is working as programmed, it's simply wrong. It finds a real statistical connection between words, but that never had been synonymous with truth and never will be.
aug 30, 2025, 2:23 pm • 14 2 • view
yep - their jargon, branded terms, meant to persuade buyers their tech is as good as and equivalent to a human. “ai employee” is one of THE most egregious terms.
aug 30, 2025, 2:28 pm • 9 0 • view
This is the problem is that it’s said to be a replacement vs assistant. Computers are assistant not replacement for humans.
aug 30, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
tools not even assistants
aug 30, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The word tools annoys me as they’ve vaporized that words meaning with the AI tools lol
aug 30, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
but people are assistants so
aug 30, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Call it a hammer cause it sometimes builds something other times it breaks it 🤣
aug 30, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
even using the imprecise marketing term "ai" does that...
aug 30, 2025, 2:30 pm • 5 0 • view