Charlie StrossMay 23
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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Show threadAlex Feinman

@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.

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Show threadCharlie StrossMay 23
@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.
Show threadLanda May 24

@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)_/¯

Show threadarceuthobiumMay 23
@afeinman @cstross @varx did you hear about the road fills in Washington State that spontaneously combusted?
Show threadRandall LeeMay 23
@theothersimo @afeinman @cstross @varx That would make my boring commute from work so much more fun.