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> actively working to not be fed the slop By using AI-powered search to summarize everything the AIs generated! I now understand the AI gold-rush. Dear God, w
by eszed 2y ago
> actively working to not be fed the slop
By using AI-powered search to summarize everything the AIs generated! I now understand the AI gold-rush.
Dear God, what a dystopian future we're creating. "Information super-highway" was a more-apt metaphor than I ever thought, way back when: as we all know by now, induced demand ends up in grid-lock.
- kombookcha 2y agoIt's such an aggressively obnoxious way for huge swaths of infrastructure to become useless wastelands of generative nonsense that I would have been amused if I'd read it in Snow Crash. Billions of dollars and rare minerals and manpower all going towards drowning the greatest communication tool in human history in noise. It's like kessler syndrome for the internet, except we are actively spending money to make it happen. What a pointless, useless waste.
- exe34 2y agoit's the vile offspring from accelerando (Charlie Stross)
- flir 2y agoAnd my mind with to The Diamond Age (the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer that used human actors to give AI-generated stories a veneer of humanity).
- exe34 2y agoaha that's a good one too! I got a pinenote and thought about making Tom Riddle's diary, but for maths. shame I never got around to doing it.
- michaelt 2y agoToday, jobseekers are submitting AI-written resumes to resume-filtering AIs used by employers. But why stop there? I dream of a future where not only do we fully automate the tedious process of playing golf, we also automate the tedious process of watching professional golf.
- dopylitty 2y agoI know of a doctor who has to write weekly reports and has been using an LLM to generate them. I’m sure the people reading them are using an LLM to summarize them. It’s such an incredible waste of resources and time. I’ve said it before but I have a picture I took a decade ago of this beautiful meadow I rode my bike past with the morning sun shining through the tall grasses. I remember the birds flying around and insects buzzing. That meadow was torn up and a big concrete data center surrounded by tall fences was put in. All so the tech bubble could go on.
- JamesonNetworks 2y agoThey paved paradise and put up an AI bot
- vundercind 2y agoAn amazing amount of what certain parts of and actors in business do is write tons of shit that basically doesn’t matter. It’s the one thing I’m confident LLMs will be purely helpful for. Though the ones being automated are from departments and tiers of companies that I expect to be resistant to downsizing as large parts of their workload are automated. Plus, if that were fully embraced, it’d be the same as other automation (or, sometimes, “automation”) in business and those responsibilities would still exist, but be done by people already juggling a dozen ex-roles. I don’t really want to be the one who has to babysit an LLM through writing department newsletters and crap.
- jprete 2y agoI'm semi-convinced my current doctor is using ChatGPT to write messages to me. I'd rather she sent 2000s hyperabbreviated chatspeak than read another trite statement about how "she" "understands" my human reason for a request.
- flir 2y agoDon't know about doctors, but school reports have been done like this for decades. You select 1, 7, 8, 5, 2 to a series of questions about the child (eg "Does the child pay attention in class?"), and the software expands that into a school report.
- pydry 2y agoMeanwhile countries like China are building real assets like high speed rail and the world's richest industrial ecosystem while hooking us on it. This is because they don't instinctively follow a principle of "market always knows best". They might be live in a dictatorship instead of a fake democracy rigged by the rich, but materially, their lives will probably be better than ours in a few decades.