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Exactly. AI is to remove the annoying, repetitive things you don't care about or like doing. This is the opposite of that.

dylan604 2y ago
Oh I don't know, writing papers is something I absolutely do not care about or like doing. I absolutely see the appeal. It's kind of like all of the math "tricks" that I learned after learning the actual methods on how to do the maths, but AI/GPTs is like just teaching the tricks without a proper understanding of how/why the tricks work. The problem is that AI is a hammer so everything is a nail to them.
- jerojero 2y ago
  Yeah, writing a paper is a chore. Writing a letter for your dying grandma is not really a chore. I think they are trying really hard to appeal to the common person but they misunderstand that all a common person doesn't really have a huge need of a lot of these things. I mean, I use copilot and I like it. I even use image generation to get pictures to do collages with (before I would sometimes search for hours for the right image on magazine scans and so on). But when I was leaving the place I lived for for years a few months ago, it didn't even cross my mind to use an LLM to write a letter for my friends. I would it, perhaps, to help me find specific words, synonyms, rhymes. That's something they're good at. But it's never a "just do this for me". Idk, I think they need to accept that this tech is just not the end-all-be-all of human writing. Imo, an ad that simply shows someone asking the LLM for certain concepts, for word plays, for little things would play much better with the general population. I think Apple did some of that in their AI pitch.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    >I think they need to accept that this tech is just not the end-all-be-all Not really sure why you used any words after that as it is much more of an issue than just in writing. The cult vibes are off the charts
fullshark 2y ago
Generative AI is for removing the annoying, highly paid laborers creating code/text/images/video and replacing them with less well compensated laborers augmented by machine generated output cause it's much cheaper. It's a source of annoyance, but not for consumers.

dylan604 2y ago

Oh I don't know, writing papers is something I absolutely do not care about or like doing. I absolutely see the appeal. It's kind of like all of the math "tricks" that I learned after learning the actual methods on how to do the maths, but AI/GPTs is like just teaching the tricks without a proper understanding of how/why the tricks work. The problem is that AI is a hammer so everything is a nail to them.

jerojero 2y ago
Yeah, writing a paper is a chore. Writing a letter for your dying grandma is not really a chore. I think they are trying really hard to appeal to the common person but they misunderstand that all a common person doesn't really have a huge need of a lot of these things. I mean, I use copilot and I like it. I even use image generation to get pictures to do collages with (before I would sometimes search for hours for the right image on magazine scans and so on). But when I was leaving the place I lived for for years a few months ago, it didn't even cross my mind to use an LLM to write a letter for my friends. I would it, perhaps, to help me find specific words, synonyms, rhymes. That's something they're good at. But it's never a "just do this for me". Idk, I think they need to accept that this tech is just not the end-all-be-all of human writing. Imo, an ad that simply shows someone asking the LLM for certain concepts, for word plays, for little things would play much better with the general population. I think Apple did some of that in their AI pitch.
- dylan604 2y ago
  >I think they need to accept that this tech is just not the end-all-be-all Not really sure why you used any words after that as it is much more of an issue than just in writing. The cult vibes are off the charts

fullshark 2y ago

Generative AI is for removing the annoying, highly paid laborers creating code/text/images/video and replacing them with less well compensated laborers augmented by machine generated output cause it's much cheaper. It's a source of annoyance, but not for consumers.