@shanselman we don’t want no stinking "AI" shit, why is this even in my timeline…

@mirabilos watch it...it's 90% anti

@shanselman @mirabilos I’m surprised that your “good” use-case for AI is generating conversations with figures like Maya Angelou and Nelson Mandela. First, don’t you think there’s a consent issue there? Dead people can’t agree to have their work used for training, or to the creation of a fake representation of themselves. Second, the whole use case is abhorrent. Pretending that you can create an accurate simulacrum of a person based on their public writing/speech devalues their humanity.

@ripple @mirabilos that’s fair and valid feedback. I wonder if there’s validity in chatting with a “research librarian” with knowledge of a historical person’s public papers/books? I’m always trying to/open to reframing and rethinking my perspective

@shanselman what problem are you trying to solve? Do we need technology for this? How many research librarians/ teachers could you fund with the resources being spent on LLMs?

@ripple these are all great questions. Are there any valid used cases? I’m a bit of an AI vegan in that I don’t use it for images or video, and I try to use small models that are running locally and my own house. I don’t want it to eat the world. Is there any utility at all in your mind?

@shanselman I think the use of currently available LLMs is fundamentally unethical, so have not considered valid uses that much.
Emily M Bender has suggested that audio transcription might be a good application for LLMs, with appropriate safeguards.
Applications where the system “converses” with the users seem fraught because our brains are wired to assign intent to speech.