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???? The whole point of tractors, trains, and casting iron was to remove effort. Asking an AI to do your bookkeeping for you is not any more lazy than driving
by legitster 19d ago
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The whole point of tractors, trains, and casting iron was to remove effort. Asking an AI to do your bookkeeping for you is not any more lazy than driving a car or sending a voice text.
I think generative LLMs and their usefulness is a different topic. But if we're talking about "slopware" we're talking about software applications designed to handle menial tasks.
- EA-3167 19d agoAsking a machine to think for you is absolutely different than asking it to expend physical effort for you. If you can't see the difference than frankly this is kind of pointless.
- legitster 19d agoHaving a calculator add numbers for you is having a machine think for you. Your computer is doing an awful lot of creative problem solving on your behalf to serve this page to you. It sounds like you don't see a difference between thinking and creativity?
- EA-3167 19d agoCalculators don't think for you any more than a slide-rule or a pen and paper does. It takes values and operations that you instruct and then all it does is the part that's entirely deterministic and repetitive. My computer is an extension of the same thing, and most of those extensions don't reflect a replacement of anyone's thinking. No one was previously able to send electronic signals and reconstruct them into web pages for example, that's a new and unique capability that augments our own. "Write my blog post or my code for me" is an entirely different prospect which yes includes, but isn't limited to creativity.
- jaggs 18d agoYou're arguing with a bot probably. :) And I think you're right. The word 'slop' has become a lazy way to indicate that one is anti AI. Fair enough, eh? I have a growing stable of self made 'slop'. products on my phone and computer which I use happily and productively every day to save time and provide assistance.