Mastodawn

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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Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈5d ago

@cstross @varx nah, what could possibly go wrong?

Atomic Orbitals 5d ago

@cstross I dread to think how many LLM-generated projects will turn out to be 21st century Therac-25 disasters.

Eric Likness 4d ago

@geoglyphentropy @cstross One part Therac-25 and one part Theranos (with all the investors and "claims" being made for money and dirty lucre)

earthling 5d ago

It revigorates software.

MidgePhoto 5d ago

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

atlovato 5d ago

@cstross - Absolutely

@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.

Daragh Ó Briain 5d ago

@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.

Alex Feinman 5d ago

@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.

Charlie Stross 5d ago

@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*
@afeinman @varx

*) might include the standard „if the parent generation does it, it must be wrong somehow“ but I take what I can get ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

arceuthobium 5d ago

@afeinman @cstross @varx did you hear about the road fills in Washington State that spontaneously combusted?

Randall Lee 5d ago

@theothersimo @afeinman @cstross @varx That would make my boring commute from work so much more fun.

Jeppe Fihl-Pearson 5d ago

@cstross @bsdphk @varx Look it glows green!

Jon Hancock 5d ago

@cstross And it feels like the forced administration of these:

Atomic Orbitals 5d ago

@BigJackBrass @cstross I dread to think what that was prescribed for!

Jon Hancock 5d ago

@geoglyphentropy @cstross Vitality!

Tim Lavoie 5d ago

@BigJackBrass @cstross Handy though, for where the sun doesn't shine.

Cassandrich 5d ago

@cstross Decades from now folks will look back on it in exactly the same way.

Wilhelm Gere 4d ago

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

Eric Likness 4d ago

Pseudo Nym 3d ago

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