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Why do we feel the need to defend software bugs? Would we give the same defense of banking software that forgot to carry over the fractions of a penny? It's a

Why do we feel the need to defend software bugs? Would we give the same defense of banking software that forgot to carry over the fractions of a penny? It's a software bug, and there's plenty of resources available to the AI's owner to try and address it. It doesn't need a human advocating for it being OK.

low_tech_love 2y ago
The most relevant comment in this entire page. It is for the same reason that many people defended crypto-stuff here in HN for a long time: the hope that one can generate money from nothing. The holy grail of software development is the idea that one may sit down on a computer for a certain amount of hours/days and come out at the other end a millionaire. Crypto gave many people that impression; you simply build some kind of meaningless distributed crypto-driven app and money will start pouring in. Now it’s AI: learn how to develop with LLMs, build some kind of buzzword-filled low-hanging fruit and all of a sudden you can sell your startup for a billion dollars. If you point out to people that that’s bs, they think you’re trying to crush their dreams, that you’re the reason why it’s not working that well. “If only people would understand the crypto/AI revolution…”
JAlexoid 2y ago
> It's a software bug Why is it a software bug? Just because you want to see those emotional sprinkles, doesn't mean that the person planning how to create the article decided that. You personally and emotionally decided, without evidence, that this is a bug. No one else is saying that. Imagine if you asked an AI to describe the discovery of radiation, and the AI deiced for you to talk about the personal life of Marie Curie for 2/3 of the whole text.
- falcolas 2y ago
  > Why is it a software bug? If you look into the happenings of the game, you'll find that there was a special ceremony held at 13 minutes for the retiring player. It's like summarizing the discovery of radiation and not mentioning Marie Curie at all. It's not emotional sprinkles (which is a pretty messed up way to refer to human interest articles), it's just omitting a notable deviation from the normal game flow is a bug. We as a community are not used to calling AI failures bugs, but we probably should - it's the most accurate term we have. As is an non-requested backwards joint, or a fan of fingers, on a photorealistic generated image.

low_tech_love 2y ago

The most relevant comment in this entire page. It is for the same reason that many people defended crypto-stuff here in HN for a long time: the hope that one can generate money from nothing. The holy grail of software development is the idea that one may sit down on a computer for a certain amount of hours/days and come out at the other end a millionaire. Crypto gave many people that impression; you simply build some kind of meaningless distributed crypto-driven app and money will start pouring in. Now it’s AI: learn how to develop with LLMs, build some kind of buzzword-filled low-hanging fruit and all of a sudden you can sell your startup for a billion dollars. If you point out to people that that’s bs, they think you’re trying to crush their dreams, that you’re the reason why it’s not working that well. “If only people would understand the crypto/AI revolution…”

JAlexoid 2y ago

> It's a software bug Why is it a software bug? Just because you want to see those emotional sprinkles, doesn't mean that the person planning how to create the article decided that. You personally and emotionally decided, without evidence, that this is a bug. No one else is saying that. Imagine if you asked an AI to describe the discovery of radiation, and the AI deiced for you to talk about the personal life of Marie Curie for 2/3 of the whole text.

falcolas 2y ago
> Why is it a software bug? If you look into the happenings of the game, you'll find that there was a special ceremony held at 13 minutes for the retiring player. It's like summarizing the discovery of radiation and not mentioning Marie Curie at all. It's not emotional sprinkles (which is a pretty messed up way to refer to human interest articles), it's just omitting a notable deviation from the normal game flow is a bug. We as a community are not used to calling AI failures bugs, but we probably should - it's the most accurate term we have. As is an non-requested backwards joint, or a fan of fingers, on a photorealistic generated image.