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A screenshot of a tweet from user "mike ginn" with the handle "[@]shutupmikeginn". The tweet reads: "its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further" Above the tweet is the user's profile picture, which is a black and white photo of a man holding a camera.

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@altbot @paninid how ironic
@paninid @orange_lux @altbot I'm not an expert on this, but it seems like an accurate image description.
@steeph it is. I was pointing the fact he used a LLM bot to describe an image criticizing the usage of a LLM
@paninid As someone wrote in a post AI is 90%hype and 10% useful. We have human intelligence. Using AI to compose a letter or write a book is sheer laziness and turning us into zombies. Apart from specialist data mining purposes AI serves little purpose.

@iveyline
Where mindless form is required "AI" is just as well an answer as non-compliance. In other words, LLMs can be a high-tech tool of sabotage for Luddites in the socio-technological realm.

@paninid

@iveyline @paninid It seems like all the hype around AI came about because of the LLM. Beyond that, I see many useful (but not news-worthy) applications of AI: from generating better OCR (text recognition), translating languages, playing board games, detecting cheaters in chess games, generating music recommendations that users like, detecting users with high chances of bad credit, to classifying fireflies (which are increasingly rare) from video footage.

@iveyline @paninid Although I think that AI is not usually very useful and often rather destructive (both in 'being wrong' and in environmental impact), I do not quite agree with this reasoning. There are a lot of things that humans could, and used to, do ourselves, and that are made a lot easier with the help of tools that were also first seen as 'that's just laziness'.

Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, automobiles, printing presses and more come to mind.

@iveyline @paninid Obviously I do not mean 'go ahead, let AI write your book for you'. But that is because AI has no actual creativity and no accountability and because of environmental and societal impact. Not because it is 'lazy' or because using tools is a bad thing. Because that would also apply to a great many things that are actually positive developments.
@iveyline @paninid I’ve been in software for 27 years and Deep learning and the transformer architecture is definitely a huge departure from anything we have had in the past 40 years. They are currently over promising for sure, but the technology is astounding to put it mildly.
@paninid
I caught an expert I work with using chat GPT to look up stuff they should have known (and could have asked me). I guided them through this logic. I think they 'got it' by the end.

This has a name. But I can’t find it.
We tend to assume news articles we don’t know much about are true although we see tons of mistakes if we are an expert in the field.

Can someone please tell me the name if this bias/effect/…? It’s driving me nuts.

@paninid

@paninid This is called the Baader Meinhof effect. Source: ChatGPT.
@henryk @paninid I feel like I’ve been hearing about the Baader Meinhof effect a lot lately.
@paninid Sounds like average journalism.

@paninid

I've heard the same thing said about Elon Musk.

@paninid @mrundkvist Michael Crichton named this effect "Gell-Mann amnesia".

From: Wikipedia:

In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles within their fields of expertise and finding them to be error-ridden and full of misunderstanding, but seemingly forgetting those experiences when reading articles in the same publications written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, which they believe to be credible. He explained that he had chosen the name ironically, because he had once discussed the effect with physicist Murray Gell-Mann, "and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Gell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia

@paninid it sounds a lot like Gell-Mann amnesia does for the media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect?wprov=sfti1
Gell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia

@paninid Same with news paper articles, actually.
@paninid maybe you should ask chatgpt about that.
The same applies to journalism.
@paninid this was my experience with many podcasters.
You can’t spell “Gell-Mann amnesia” without LLM

Benjamin Esham

@paninid

Oh. Worse than some so-called "journalists", then?
Disturbing…

@paninid indeed.
I only use it for writing texts, emails, ..