mccDec 4, 2025
One thing about "AI" is with the technology OpenAI has (large neural network plus manual tagging) you could've made the best search engine ever. There could be a Copilot where you describe what you wanted and it finds an example of it in the corpus of open source software. You could go from a fuzzy image description to a stock image. These would be better than buggy code and fucked up images. But they wouldn't do that because the *service* OpenAI provides is obscuring that the content is stolen.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machines

@mcc

Not sure when you've used #AI 👉properly👈.

In my experience the more vocal opponent of AI is the further back in time their (lack of use) goes.
With the most ardent opponents having never used the models, yet having most empathic (and increasingly inaccurate) opinions.

Attached media, a public query from today, with sources dropdown at the bottom.

Approx 30% of web searches comes from the engines nowadays.

(Edit: Hahaha, insta blocked by poster, I guess folks don't like to be called out on saying patent provable falsehoods 🤡

The poster, made a comment exposing their ignorance of features of existing AI. This one has 33,000 followers, question is "How many others like them have zero idea about the systems they critique"?)
#llm #ai #luddites

Dec 4, 2025 at 8:55pmWeb
Show threadFurbland's Very Value = 71 Accountâ„¢Dec 4, 2025

@n_dimension @mcc have you perhaps considered that:
1. you are very much mansplaining, mcc knows far more about this than you do
2. maybe fedi is not the right social media for you. go set up an account on farcaster or whatever the grifty techbros are using nowadays
3. even IF AI provided reputable content and sources as described by mcc, that still doesn’t solve all the ethical and environmental issues

that is all.

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesDec 4, 2025

@GroupNebula563 @mcc

1. She literally said an untruth.
The exact definition of "not knowing more than I do"

2. Thanks for gatekeeping. Keep it up.

3. The post wasn't about ethics, it was about exposing ignorance of how the system evolved.

Thanks for engaging

Show threadMagnus AhltorpDec 4, 2025
@n_dimension @GroupNebula563 Your post was so incoherent that it was not possible to know what it was about, except that it legitimised wholesale infringement in a locked product.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesDec 4, 2025

@ahltorp @GroupNebula563

What are you talking about?

The folk hero mmc made a statement demonstrating she has not seen an LLM for at least 6 months.

Then when I demonstrated she made an error.
WTF is incoherent about it.
Maybe it's the folks who DONT use AI are losing thinking skills.

Where are you confused?
I'll walk you through

Show threadFurbland's Very Value = 71 Accountâ„¢Dec 5, 2025
@n_dimension @ahltorp magnus, and anyone else reading this post: I checked their profile and they’re a UFO conspiracy theorist. I don’t think there’s any winning this argument. block, report, and move on
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesDec 5, 2025

@GroupNebula563 @ahltorp

WTF are you talking about.

What are you going to report me for?
Pointing out another user outright misrepresented technology feature?

As to the UFO conspiracy theory.
Its you who is the conspiracy theorist.

Show threadFurbland's Very Value = 71 Accountâ„¢Dec 5, 2025
@n_dimension @ahltorp all right I think we’re well and truly done here
Show threadPiko Starsider Dec 4, 2025

@n_dimension That's just a LLM googling. It doesn't have the sources, it uses tool calls to use search engines and scrape web pages.

A LLM using a search engine under the hood is not proof that a LLM can replace a search engine.

And it doesn't solve fundamental problems (that can only be solved with a very different kind of training and different tools) such as making shit up and not giving credit to the source material of the training data (except for very well known things and only when you ask explicitly).

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesDec 4, 2025

@starsider

The sources are at the bottom of the dialogue.
You click it shows sources.
You need a computer to see it.
A computer is like a slate tablet only it uses electricity.
Your library has one.

Show threadPiko Starsider Dec 4, 2025
@n_dimension Those are not sources from the training data. Those are sources extracted from a literal google search made by the LLM, with keywords chosen by the LLM. That's not what mcc is talking about. That's just tool calling. Do you know what tool calling is?
Show threadrakooDec 5, 2025
@n_dimension @mcc

but those citations are generated no ?
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷Dec 5, 2025

@n_dimension

This is neither an image search nor an example of open source software.

Show threadJPDec 5, 2025
@n_dimension you're a huge asshole and you will continue to be hated and blocked by many for this type of behavior