just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and a tech bro is twitching so hard he can't even plug this into the mediocrity machine so it can tell him how to respond
@ElleGray I said the exact same thing yesterday, after watching the Apple WWDC keynote presentation. The ultimate effect of these "AI" tools will be the reduction of humanity to the least common denominator, an inherently reactionary drive toward conformity to mediocrity that the users of these tools will never even be able to perceive. LLMs and generative adversarial networks are really just elaborate Bayesian probability filters. Garbage in, garbage out.

@ElleGray In fact, I predict that there will very quickly come a point when most people will start thinking creations by expert human creators are "incorrect" (grammar, composition, etc) because they don't conform to expectations generated from exposure to mediocre AI output.

That was actually my very first thought when Apple demonstrated the "Professional" rewrite of an email. Corporatespeak is the new fluency. Imagine the quality level of Microsoft Word's grammar checker, everywhere.

@gcvsa @ElleGray That's how you get "Harrison Bergeron".