dmitrizzle
bit101I have to admit, AI has saved me a lot of time. Every time I start reading about some interesting new app or service or product and see that it has "AI", I immediately stop reading and don't waste any more time on that thing.
this post is blowing up this morning. :) I had to mute the tab because I'm getting notifications every few seconds.
This might be my most popular post on mastodon.
aBe@bit101 Interesting, I didn't know what you meant, since I see 20 boosts and 1 fav. Maybe those are from my server? I wonder what those numbers represent... are the totals only visible on the source server?
@hamoid Yeah, I don't know exactly how federation works in terms of interaction status. But showing almost 1000 boosts now and 1.5k favorites. 🤷 My most popular post here by a couple orders of magnitude. I think.
Matthew Conroy@bit101 Same here!
MostlyTato@bit101
Getting harder and harder to do, but yes, same here.
Getting harder and harder to do, but yes, same here.
Kirtai 🏳️⚧️@bit101
The Second AI Winter can not come soon enough.
The Second AI Winter can not come soon enough.
Kevin Karhan 
@bit101 +9001%
#AI & #Blockchain are like the big #RedFlag|s alongside #Cloud & #Subscription!
Probertd8@bit101 Well Philosophy keeps pointing out - Creating Artificial intelligence has got to be difficult when we have no serious definition for what intelligence is in the first place.
Lance Bachmeier@bit101 Interesting that just a few posts above yours in my timeline was a link to research showing you're not alone: https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
Zeh Fernando@bit101 hah ditto
DeepBlue V7.X@bit101 Wow, I almost skipped over this...
Ysegrim@bit101 See also: https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
@ysegrim Nice, someone else just posted that as well. I shared it in my company slack.
Florian 
@bit101 it seems that you are not alone 😄
https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions
https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
ScriptFanix💍
@bit101 I am a support engineer for HAProxy Technologies. I once had a screenshare with a cutomer who was literally using ChatGPT to create HAproxy config. He is a paying customer for HAP support, why would he be using ChatGPT?!
Darwin Woodka@bit101 sometimes you can even unfollow entire accounts when they start pushing that nonsense at you!
Jehan Le Doe@bit101 Quand quelqu'un (au travail) me pose une question pernicieuse, je vais demander à une IA de me générer la reponse sur un ton paternaliste et condescendant. Ensuite je transmet la reponse en précisant que j'ai été aidé par une IA et ainsi contribué à l'inhabitabilité de la planète pour les générations futures.
On ne me pose plus de questions ensuite.
On ne me pose plus de questions ensuite.
DNKrupinski 🧡🏴☠️@bit101
(deutsche Übersetzung)
„Ich muss zugeben, dass KI mir eine Menge Zeit gespart hat. Jedes Mal, wenn ich anfange, über eine interessante neue App, einen Dienst oder ein Produkt zu lesen, und sehe, dass es "KI" hat, höre ich sofort auf zu lesen und verschwende keine Zeit mehr mit dieser Sache.“
(deutsche Übersetzung)
„Ich muss zugeben, dass KI mir eine Menge Zeit gespart hat. Jedes Mal, wenn ich anfange, über eine interessante neue App, einen Dienst oder ein Produkt zu lesen, und sehe, dass es "KI" hat, höre ich sofort auf zu lesen und verschwende keine Zeit mehr mit dieser Sache.“
mray@bit101 almost didn't read that post.
stux⚡️@bit101 
exactly!
exactly!
Oggie@bit101
I brought up the point yesterday that there really are some good ML things that have been done, before this absolute idiotic craze. Sure, some (most) were awful, but at least nobody was pretending they were sapient, and a few were useful (DLSS, eg).
But now I'm being told that I will get an AI powered router, or AI mouse. Good god, stop.
mmalcI have to admit, every time I see someone who clearly doesn't know the difference between "AI" and “LLM" it saves me a lot of time bothering to read anything else they write on the subject.
Same goes for people making value judgements about uses of energy.
Zvonimir Stanecic
Joan Albright@bit101 I almost did the same thing with your post. 😆
Jessica O'Hare 🐇Work: Do you want to use Copilot?
Me: No.
Work: Do you want to use ChatGPT?
Me: No.
Work: Do you want to use..
Me: NO!
@bit101 https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
cthululemon
John Chapman@bit101 One thing is certain; Gemini can't count characters or words. I asked it to shorten a 1638 character 301 word document by 75% and it persisted in returning a text with around 220 characters 34 words - about 13% of the original.
new kar at @
ozamidas@bit101 Well prepare for the mouse revolution, let's see if you can ignore that.
Thomas Rabenstein ✨@bit101
If you were just looking to write a "popular post", then congratulations. There are many who jump on the hater bandwagon without having a clue about the subject. Whether you reject the new technology or wish it to hell is of course up to you. However, it won't stop development and maybe one day AI will help you with a difficult medical diagnosis or be useful to you in some other way. I prefer to learn about AI technologies, understand them, and use them where it makes sense.
#ai
If you were just looking to write a "popular post", then congratulations. There are many who jump on the hater bandwagon without having a clue about the subject. Whether you reject the new technology or wish it to hell is of course up to you. However, it won't stop development and maybe one day AI will help you with a difficult medical diagnosis or be useful to you in some other way. I prefer to learn about AI technologies, understand them, and use them where it makes sense.
#ai
@autor I have no doubt there will be several great uses for AI. But right now I'm sick of it being crammed down my throat in every single product I touch, in ways that make no sense and add zero value.
Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)
sparseMatrix 📻AI has saved me a fuckton of time, generating boilerplate code to spec, and generating configurations for complex systems like nginx. That doesn't mean it is used less effectively in other areas, or that it isn't poorly used in many others.
The problem with AI is not that it's shit; its that it is poorly understood bc of all the bullshit hype around it has provided unrealistic expectations about it's capabilities and usefulness.
Don't blame the hammer for not doing the work of the saw.
@KI5SMN I'm not blaming the hammer. I'm blaming every company out there trying to sell me a hammer when I ordered a cheese omelet.
Hahaha don't buy it! Hammers are rough on the digestion 😝
Seriously though, you hit the nail on the head (with a cheese omelette). The first rule of sales is to manage expectations. Like just about everything else, effectively selling the 'product' has been sacrificed to the statistical effectiveness of maximum bullshit exposure.
Bullshit drives clicks, at the expense of everything else.
Every other strategy has been abandoned.
0ddj0bb@bit101 this sounds mostly tongue in cheek, but keep in mind so many people did the same thing with Cloud and sure enough 15 years later many of those folls have 0 clue how the cloud works or how to secure it other than staying out of it and cant support companies using it.
We have to dig into AI and find a place in it or we wont be able to catch up. And then society will suffer for it
@0ddj0bb I partially agree. As I answered to others, I'm sure AI will have some amazing uses. But most of its uses now are solutions in search of problems. I don't think everyone needs to find their place in AI. Any more than everyone needs to find their place in Cloud. And I don't think society will suffer from lack of AI. I'm more concerned about the potential suffering AI will create - as with all technology.
@bit101 no, society will suffer from AI that hasbt been secured. Just like weve suffered from insecure clouds.
AI has the potential to be a very bad time if we dont get this right.
This isnt blockchain. Theres real problems AI is solving and we have to get involved
@0ddj0bb some people hype the benefits and downplay the dangers. Others do the opposite.
a1
Jawaka@bit101 Exactly this. If it has stickers saying AI, Spotify, Alexa, Google or any of the other shit-shovelers then I look elsewhere.