cliffI'm going full luddite mode on GPT, copilot, all that shit. Get it out of here. I'm not suffering a computer to feign knowledge.
Instead of misinformation, etc we should be talking about information pollution. And people are making machines whose entire job is to spew information pollution.
filipa mv@cliff i haven’t figured out the hook yet but i have half a talk sketched out contrasting it with the industrial revolution and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
@phillmv i like the comparison, but at least the one thing you could say for coal burning is that it could do some productive work. the smog is the primary output of generative AI which is the fucked up part
@cliff i’m not convinced it’s _useless_; there’s a bit of heat there.
but it’s totally smog everything & it’s being pushed irresponsibly.
so with the industrial revolution came great migrations, to the new world & to the cities, and folks brought with them their lore: fairies and elves and spirits and gnomes, that explained the world around them.
imagine telling a mfer from 1809 that you caught an elf in a jar, and that it’s wicked smart, lies constantly, and yr gonna start doing what he says