Duane Hay
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MAN, the #techbros missing the point are exhausting....
Remember: just because an idiot can CODE, doesn't mean they're intelligent.
monkϵyborg 🦾🐵
Neil@monkeyborg @faraiwe going to be really upset when I find out that this was AI!
ISibboI@monkeyborg @faraiwe generating alt texts is exactly a great use case for AI.
mirabilos@ISibboI @faraiwe @monkeyborg because they don’t describe things right, and why should anyone read what nobody bothered to write?
@mirabilos @faraiwe @monkeyborg hopefully they will work better at some point. And people with impaired vision will be very happy to be able to understand pictures. Can't expect everyone to write detailed alt texts for everything they post.
It's like with machine translation, right? It enables people to access content that they miss a skill to access. For example, as an English speaker it allows you to access Spanish content, even if you don't know Spanish.
@monkeyborg @ISibboI @faraiwe you can do these things without so-called "AI". Not quite as good in the results, very much not as easily and cheaply, but without the massive energy consumption of "AI" models, and very much more reliable than with "AI" where you can’t even fix a bug without breaking something totally unrelated.
Håkan LindqvistAI Written, AI Read cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne
One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for “too long; didn’t read.” With the explosion of generative AI tools, we’re rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: “too long, didn’t write.” A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT
Chris_Swan@monkeyborg @faraiwe yes! All the day long.
Wokebloke for Democracy@faraiwe
I have quite a lot of friends who are writers- fiction: professionally- and every one has a story about people approaching them with a "great idea" for a story they would be willing to share and the writer could make a novel out of it.
Now those idea people have an alternative!
I have quite a lot of friends who are writers- fiction: professionally- and every one has a story about people approaching them with a "great idea" for a story they would be willing to share and the writer could make a novel out of it.
Now those idea people have an alternative!
James Heartland@faraiwe They don’t care; their whole deal is to flood Amazon with enough AI-generated shit that you have no choice or aren’t even aware of the problem.
Ichinin 
✅🎯🙄@faraiwe Best thing is probably to create a LLM that can summarize all that text into 3-4 paragraphs so you don't have to read it.
xs4me2Exactly, the great nothingness…
Brian Repko@faraiwe If I’m the computer running the computer generated code - why bother with the source code intermediate form for the humans - BinaryGPT!
kairyl@faraiwe good point, but this is happening regardless. Example: look at all the AI-generated memes and AI social media accounts or YouTube channels. They're definitely not "profound" content... They're created/posted to generate clicks or revenue. #FollowTheMoney
Crafty@faraiwe brilliantly put tbh. Especially sick of tech influencers who churn out AI crap, the whole point of being an influencer is that you have something to say. Why tf would I follow an "influencer" who relies on AI for their content??
Kevin RussellPerfect! This is beauty.
Remember when editing software got so good, your boss decided he could write?
Remember when your CEO's nephew learned html and the company website suddenly had blinking text? \
AI writing: so unimportant they couldn't find a human willing to write it. I am filled with admiration.
Angela, Lady Ffosfelin@faraiwe … oh I like that! 😊
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@faraiwe Well, there are things for which LLMs can actually be useful. In the past, NPCs in games often repeated the same sentences again and again, and different NPCs said the same things, because every line was written by a human, and spending months or even years on writing immense numbers of individual dialogue lines for minor background NPCs would have cost a lot of money. Now you can just fine-tune smallish LLMs for each NPC instead and get an infinite number of unique dialogues.
Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬@LordCaramac @faraiwe if you have so much background dialogue that AI is a real cost saver, you might already be on the wrong path. Adding meaningless "fillers" to make your world feel "alive" is pretty much what separated Dragon Age Inquisition from Witcher 3's deliberately designed extra content.
L-)true, but sadly there is not enough people to talk to everybody...
That is also why they put fluffy robots into the arms of lonely elderly people...
selje 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇮🇪@faraiwe
I feel the same way about AI art. Sorry if for those of you who are fans of AI. Art to me is a distinctly human, or at least sentient, behavior. Unique as the brushstrokes of the painter, whether on canvas, in clay, metal, wood, etc. It is not an algorithm.
I feel the same way about AI art. Sorry if for those of you who are fans of AI. Art to me is a distinctly human, or at least sentient, behavior. Unique as the brushstrokes of the painter, whether on canvas, in clay, metal, wood, etc. It is not an algorithm.
Nerdy Echidna@faraiwe we're getting close to the point at which Frank Herbert's Dune and its maxim makes sense: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind".
maxelcat@faraiwe sums it up rather well
RickNobodyBeinz
Nick TaylorI clicked your like buttons because this is how I feel about AI writing. It's not how I feel about AI images.
Midjourney is fucking mental. I've been utterly smitten with the thing Since V3. I have one screen for Youtube and one for Midjourney. It's replaced Netflix.
I don't think it's art. I mean there are overlaps etc, but it's more like a new form of entertainment.
Cory Doctorow (I think) once said that "the purpose of blogging is that it teaches you what you think" - and I think that absolutely nails how I feel about writing.
The main point of writing this reply was for me to clarify what I think about this stuff. Talking to another human makes it mean more somehow.
Getting an AI to do your writing kindof makes you part of the audience. Like paying someone to walk your dog for you. It's missing the point.
Johan Wärlander 🦀@faraiwe Yeah.. Where I think "AI" could shine, but doesn't, is if it would find relevant source info from multiple sources, properly cited, and provide some explanation of how the findings relate to the question you asked.
It's unfortunate that the focus has been instead on rehashing existing knowledge without attribution, but with some nonsense mixed in for good measure.
Spooky Frank@faraiwe Why eat food that no one had to make, on dishes that no person made? Why read a weather forecast that no one wrote?
This is a thought-terminating cliché.
Jan Ainali@faraiwe so ironic that you didn't write this and yet expected people to read it! 😂