Putting generative AI in software products is absolutely the informational equivalent of adding radium to foodstuffs in the 1920s!
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I very much get a "we just discovered radium and want to put it in everything" vibe from this whole generative AI bubble. (Including the thing where companies used to slap the word "radium" on existing products even though they thankfully did not actually have any radioactive materials. Like "radium butter".)

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@cstross I dread to think how many LLM-generated projects will turn out to be 21st century Therac-25 disasters.
@geoglyphentropy @cstross One part Therac-25 and one part Theranos (with all the investors and "claims" being made for money and dirty lucre)

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It revigorates software.

#radium

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Texas has been a locus of madness for longer than was obvious.

@cstross Marie Curie was among the clueless. She discovered radium, before it's danger was known.

The question of how we process cutting edge information is rasied here.

@cstross @faduda That was a big topic and theme in keynote presentation I did last year for the Amplify Summit in Dublin. @dermot was there.

@cstross @varx I think of it more like the old habit of using "whatever" as landfill.

Seems like it should do the job, and decades later your office buildings fall down and millions of people have birth defects or escalated cancer rates.

@afeinman @varx No, it's more like high level radioisotopes: the next generation is already coming out of school and university intellectually stunted and sickly from over-exposure.

@cstross it might amuse you to learn (as I did) that there are teenagers out there who refuse to use LLMs on ethical grounds*
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*) might include the standard „if the parent generation does it, it must be wrong somehow“ but I take what I can get ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@afeinman @cstross @varx did you hear about the road fills in Washington State that spontaneously combusted?
@theothersimo @afeinman @cstross @varx That would make my boring commute from work so much more fun.
@cstross And it feels like the forced administration of these:
@BigJackBrass @cstross Handy though, for where the sun doesn't shine.
@cstross Decades from now folks will look back on it in exactly the same way.

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Also the word Radio. Slapped it on everything. Only hold out, apart from real radios, is the Radio Flyer red wagon

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