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All you "everybody can write computer programs" people brought this LLM-apocalypse on yourselves. Just sayin'...
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Old Fucking Punk May 13

@varx "prosocial"...hard to be prosocial when you are contributing to increased climate change and scarcity of water.
On the software front, I guess one could say LLMs have brought the reckoning that the software community has had coming for a long time, but it is not a salvation; instead of leading to recognition of the actual problem (lack of valid analysis models and metrics that could lead to improving abstraction), it doubles down on the current poor practices.
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Old Fucking Punk May 11

In the 80s, we were waiting for the world to end via nuclear war. Now we have so many more ways for the world to end. That's progress!

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Old Fucking Punk May 10

Noticed that USA Today, owners of my local newspaper, is having AI write local articles. I think local news is officially dead.
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Old Fucking Punk May 4

@atanasoff @EUCommission Sounds like the USA.
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Old Fucking Punk May 1

Looks like Canonical (Ubuntu) is going to start heavy use of LLMs(AI).
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Old Fucking Punk Apr 24

LLMs destroying the world
https://www.wired.com/story/new-gas-powered-data-centers-could-emit-more-greenhouse-gases-than-entire-nations/
#ClimateChange
#NoLLMs
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

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Old Fucking Punk Apr 23

I graduated high school in 1982 in the USA. I remember the social anxiety at the time was right wing Christian extremists, WWIII, the dying American Dream, and pending fascism under Reagan. The graduates of today totally have me beat.

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Old Fucking Punk Apr 22

You've heard of "testing in quality", but now there's "LLMing in quality"! All of the same specious arguments, but now at a much greater social cost!
#CapitalismSucks
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Old Fucking Punk Apr 17

I have problems with this blog post, https://thomasrigby.com/posts/it-is-not-your-fault/, but this quote describes a big issue with LLMs:
'There are so many ways an LLM can provide an incorrect answer; the most common being "any answer is higher scoring than zero in the probabilistic sense".'

This is yet another ethical problem with LLM usage; you can't trust the output. Environmental concerns, violations of licensing (i.e., theft), employment concerns, and trust issues.

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It is not your fault

Why is dealing with LLMs so difficult?

thomasrigby.com