Generative AI

[docsilence]

So the Genesis Mission is just the US bailing out the AI industry by letting AI get its cancerous tentacles into every single aspect of our government, right? Like, people can see this, yeah?

I swear it went from "it's going to take 20 years to undo the harm he's done in office" to "this world won't be salvageable by the time he's done."

 

[TheSameIdiot]

It might be worth creating a separate thread on AI. I feel completely alone in my contempt for it.

Don't get me wrong, my internet bubble is staunchly opposed, but everyone I meet in the real world uses it regularly.

We have an all-staff training next month on AI. I made a joke to my team about standing in the back of the room and heckling the speaker. For the pitiable looks I got, I may as well have hung a sign around my neck that says "town kook."

 

[CTV]

It might be worth creating a separate thread on AI. I feel completely alone in my contempt for it.

Don't get me wrong, my internet bubble is staunchly opposed, but everyone I meet in the real world uses it regularly.

We have an all-staff training next month on AI. I made a joke to my team about standing in the back of the room and heckling the speaker. For the pitiable looks I got, I may as well have hung a sign around my neck that says "town kook."

I was rejected from a job because I didn't use AI for the presentation/assessment. Seriously, they told me that.

 

[docsilence]

It might be worth creating a separate thread on AI. I feel completely alone in my contempt for it.

Don't get me wrong, my internet bubble is staunchly opposed, but everyone I meet in the real world uses it regularly.

We have an all-staff training next month on AI. I made a joke to my team about standing in the back of the room and heckling the speaker. For the pitiable looks I got, I may as well have hung a sign around my neck that says "town kook."

I mentioned AI in here because the White House put out a plan to basically weave it into every fucking initiative from now until forever earlier today with a horrifically biblical name attached to it, but it probably warrants its own thread.

I'm giving basically a TED talk about the dangers of it in publishing next month for a local writing organization, writing an AI safety policy for a city I work with, worked for a bunch of consultants two said they wouldn't fuck ChatGPT with someone else's dick, and have eleven of my novels tied up in the Anthropic/OpenAI lawsuits. You'll have a hard time finding someone more opposed to it than I am, and I feel like we're watching everyone around us let the robots fuck them in the eyeball to give them brain damage and think we're weird for warning them about it. Also this economic bubble it's created is going to literally kill people.

 

[docsilence]

I was rejected from a job because I didn't use AI for the presentation/assessment. Seriously, they told me that.

I'm sure it was infuriating because you wanted the job, but that's surefire sign you were going to be working with absolute fucking morons if you got the job.

Basically if someone tells me they're using generative AI I start thinking of them as someone who doesn't believe in washing their hands after they take a shit.

 

[CTV]

I'm sure it was infuriating because you wanted the job, but that's surefire sign you were going to be working with absolute fucking morons if you got the job.

Basically if someone tells me they're using generative AI I start thinking of them as someone who doesn't believe in washing their hands after they take a shit.

It was definitely an eye-opening experience. I did want the job but you're right; likely a bullet dodged. It at least taught me to come up with a few relevant use cases for AI to rattle off in interviews even if I like actually thinking through and writing things myself.

 

[docsilence]

It was definitely an eye-opening experience. I did want the job but you're right; likely a bullet dodged. It at least taught me to come up with a few relevant use cases for AI to rattle off in interviews even if I like actually thinking through and writing things myself.

I'm curious what industry. I recently did some contract work reviewing an RFP for a client and I called out a section that sounded too good to be true and asked if the company could actually do what it said it did there, and my contact (also anti-AI) was like "oh yeah, that exec does everything through ChatGPT now, none of what she promises in that section is verified. We'll have to figure it out later."

I'm just hoping we all live long enough to be able to capitalize on society falling apart in a few years by being the ones who can read/code/think critically/identify factual information/not die by eating Tide pods/etc. but I'm not putting money on us making it that long.

 

[Chooch555]

Feel free to split this off if we start up an AI thread. AI as a tool will undobtedly end up somewhere between the spectrum of world saving and world destroying. My bugaboo with it is how humans are reacting. Or rather overreacting. As a tool for a specific use case it can be great. Usually it's a good starter for a solution, not the be all. But people are treating it like it's something to bet on and as always money ruins it.

 

[Damien]

Someone in my industry recommended I start using AI for a few different things and I wanted to vomit. Especially because of -what- he was suggesting I use AI for. It was insanity.

 

[docsilence]

Feel free to split this off if we start up an AI thread. AI as a tool will undobtedly end up somewhere between the spectrum of world saving and world destroying. My bugaboo with it is how humans are reacting. Or rather overreacting. As a tool for a specific use case it can be great. Usually it's a good starter for a solution, not the be all. But people are treating it like it's something to bet on and as always money ruins it.

I write about AI in healthcare a lot. The biggest problem is calling it AI. Talked with a scientist who created an algorithmic tool that found cancer cells in breast and brain tissue better than the human eye can and it would kinda "ping" the doc like hey man, look at that spot over there more closely, might be cancer. GREAT stuff. Will save lives.

Then you've got Sudo telling everyone that learning how to play a guitar is a waste of time, just use AI, and I want to burn the entire company to the ground.

 

[Chooch555]

Exactly! Let's be realistic about what "it" is and start talking about individual tools and their uses.

 

[docsilence]

Exactly! Let's be realistic about what "it" is and start talking about individual tools and their uses.

And what it isn't. Another interview I did recently: doctors have started believing AI diagnoses and not questioning them because they're rushing around and not taking the time to verify the information that's being surfaced. Meanwhile insurance wants to opt out of coverage for incidents involving AI because they KNOW people are going to be harmed by sloppy use of it. Is it good at dredging up the 50 articles on using X medication off label so you can review those articles and make an informed decision? Honestly, it really is. Can it diagnose the patient in your chair correctly? Absolutely fucking not. But the problem is HUMANS not knowing the difference.

(The expert in this article has started asking his own doctors to turn off ambient listening because it's so bad at getting the information correct - cases where ambient listening diagnosed a patient with diabetes because the doctor asked the patient about their MOM's diabetes, which then impacted the patient's insurance rate later on... we're not ready for this technology, and it's doing so much harm by not realizing we're not ready for it.)

 

[adrienveidt]

The absolute last people that should be making decisions about where and when to implement this shit is the fucking MBAs, but they're pretty much the entirety of people doing so.

 

[altcunningham]

The absolute last people that should be making decisions about where and when to implement this shit is the fucking MBAs, but they're pretty much the entirety of people doing so.

It's gross how normalized it's becoming in primary, secondary, and post education. Parent I know was telling me the school encourages it because there's really no point in learning how to write anymore when essays can just be generated. It's your thoughts that are important, you just need to retain the formulas, like math.

F*** all the way off.

And the continued hypocritical apologizing and condoning of art theft in creative spaces by the people that can't create, while they also condemn the use, as long as it's a product that they're not invested in.

I just read something about Marathon and the "tired discussion of art theft." Sorry jackass, it's never going to be tired. It's theft. Mega corps stealing from the people. They're not your buddy so you don't need to go to bat for them.

 

[CTV]

I'm curious what industry. I recently did some contract work reviewing an RFP for a client and I called out a section that sounded too good to be true and asked if the company could actually do what it said it did there, and my contact (also anti-AI) was like "oh yeah, that exec does everything through ChatGPT now, none of what she promises in that section is verified. We'll have to figure it out later."

I'm just hoping we all live long enough to be able to capitalize on society falling apart in a few years by being the ones who can read/code/think critically/identify factual information/not die by eating Tide pods/etc. but I'm not putting money on us making it that long.

SaaS, of course!