Frankie ✅Very easy
StarkRG@Some_Emo_Chick My initial reaction to them was something along the lines of "Ok, sure, so, what's the point?" And, as it turned out, the point was money laundering, tax evasion, and scamming people. I don't think making climate change worse was entirely intentional, people making them just didn't give a shit.
Erik (OLD ACCOUNT)@StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick my guess is the last thing people who launder money, evade taxes and scam other people care about is the climate.
But glad that grift is over, can't wait to see what the next obvious one is
Joe Dowland@erikcats @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick the next obvious one is "AI" (put in quotes because it's not intelligent, it's just a marketing scam)
@Aradiel @erikcats @Some_Emo_Chick LLMs are a solution looking for a problem. You can usually tell by the way it's marketed as being useful for anything and everything while not actually being better than anything that already exists.
Other types of generative AI aren't as bad, though that isn't saying much since LLMs are the literal worst. There are, at least, a handful of cases where they have advantages over existing solutions, but they still need a lot of handholding.
@StarkRG @Aradiel @Some_Emo_Chick explain to someone who's not a techie what LLMs are, without resorting to LMGTFY or similar things
@erikcats @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick ok.
LLMs are computer programs that have stored reams of (often stolen) text. When you supply it with a question or prompt, it runs calculations to return a sentence that that mathematically is possibly what you want
LLMs are computer programs that have stored reams of (often stolen) text. When you supply it with a question or prompt, it runs calculations to return a sentence that that mathematically is possibly what you want
@Aradiel @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick oh my fucking god that's the generative text stuff ChatGPT runs on
I know everyone is using it but it hurts my linguist heart to see one of the core activities of human functioning be outsourced to garbage protocols
@erikcats @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick I'm genuinely curious, did you not know what LLMs are before that toot?
I thought you were being smug or sarcastic
I thought you were being smug or sarcastic
@erikcats @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick ok. My apologies if I came across at condescending or anything there, then
@Aradiel @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick no worries, I know the OG mastopeeps are 99% programmers and such. I studied historical linguistics and my interest revolve around that, painting plastic dolls with punch daggers and humans in general. Plus I'll ask if I need to know.