Lauren Weinstein
Brambleminster Gollyhatch@lauren To be fair it said according to "a" calendar, not "the" calendar. Could be last year's.
@gollyhatch I didn't ask if it ever was 2024, or if some random calendar somewhere said it was 2024. I asked a question any child could answer: IS it 2025. It's a binary question, answerable by 99.999% of the people on this planet, I would suspect. No excuses.
Frank Heijkamp@lauren @gollyhatch It is not an excuse but it is a possible explanation. "According to a calendar" is technically not a lie, that can indeed be 'any' calendar. LLM's are based on mathematics, it just spits out words according to a bunch of complicated formulas. It does not understand anything, there is no #actualIntelligence in there.
@alterelefant @gollyhatch I don't need a tutorial on LLMs. The point is that this garbage is being forced down the throat of users and the amount of misinformation is vast and apparently growing, nor is Big Tech willing to take responsibility for any damage done to users who assume that Google is giving them accurate information like it used to.
@lauren @gollyhatch it is indeed very worrying. Let's hope people are able to pick up on the fact that all of this LLM stuff is too much of a distraction and not improving their life in any significant way. It is only adding noise.
@alterelefant @gollyhatch Big Tech isn't giving them a choice. They're stuffing it into everything. It's all about trying to recover their enormous investment that they fear might never pay off unless everyone is forced to use these systems.
@lauren @alterelefant There's always a choice, the problem is the average person not caring enough to educate themselves and make the right one.
@gollyhatch @lauren There is indeed some room for improvement. Let's hope people will start moving away from this nonsense.
MarjorieR@alterelefant @gollyhatch @lauren attitudes may start to change once the AI Bros start to charge users, whether corporate or individuals, what LLMs cost, plus profits, to spit out answers.
I gather Musk's (unsigned) deal with Telegram is based on splitting the money raised by Grok subscriptions, I'd be interested to know what they propose to charge, how they will charge and whether anyone will actually sign up for this.
I gather Musk's (unsigned) deal with Telegram is based on splitting the money raised by Grok subscriptions, I'd be interested to know what they propose to charge, how they will charge and whether anyone will actually sign up for this.
@marjolica @gollyhatch @lauren It's very much a loss-making venture and the main question is at what point they demand to see a return on their investment. Maybe the investors just use the losses to be able to lower their tax brackets and circumvent paying any tax at all? Only time will tell.