When the AI bubble pops, all the mainstream media outlets will moan about how they were misled by big tech... but here and now they are failing comprehensively to apply a critical lense to the hype.
For instance, all the outlets that fell for the Brad Pitt vs Tom Cruise "Two line prompt" scene. Or the ABC continuing to platform Alan Kohler's deluded gushings.
Like, people are allowed to be excited for the future... but repeating marketing claims uncritically is not journalism.
@troberts it's a sad state of affairs between the media and social media.
That's a puppet bubble.
@troberts journalists don't learn because the way we do journalism is no longer about getting the story, but printing what you've been told to print.
Why go out and spend time getting an actual story when it'll get spiked because the editor only pre-approves stuff?
Once you see it like that, it's clear that it's a professional hindrance to dig deeper than the marketing guff
@sister_ratched His article on monday was:
'AI is evolving fast and may bring the fourth industrial revolution with it'
"As I lay awake at the end of the week staring at the ceiling in the dark, I realised that my earlier frames of reference for AI and what's being called the fourth industrial revolution were suddenly inadequate."
... and ...
"We are building — or perhaps have already built — an alien intelligence that thinks at least one thousand times faster than any human, knows every bit of knowledge that every human has ever known, is evolving a million times faster than human evolution and will end up vastly outnumbering humans."
Like... Alan, could we possible consider for a moment that the Tech Bros are con artists?
It's just such an extraordinary gushing of absolute fantasy, almost completely divorced from the tawdry reality and limitations of spicy autocomplete. 🙄
It's a very weird situation as a lifetime lover of tech (since my Atari VCS, Spectrum and C64 days), and having worked in tech-related fields for much of the past few decades, to be now viewed by some, both at work and socially, as some kind of naysayer or neo-Luddite (yes, I know, Luddites weren't really, etc.) tech-hater.
All because I see the inherent limitations of the LLM model (and why it can't actually be fixed), and call out the hype and bullshit for what it is. 🤷♂️
@imalcolm I can sympathise with that.
Back in 2024 I remember the General Manager trying to ridicule me in front of the team as being stuck in the past.
I was trying to point out that our software depends on having a reputation for being very accurate and explainable... and they wanted to get an AI to write all the scientific documentation.
I think it's a bit better now because the concepts of hallucinations, slop, and the "AI bubble" are generally well known. And it has been several years without the prophesied super-intelligence appearing.
It's infuriating cos I feel we're trying to do the best both by the work itself and org's reputation/survival, based on better understanding, yet it's viewed as the opposite.
I increasingly just keep my head down and try to wait out the worst of it...
And as for the prophesied "super intelligence", just more marketing bullshit. Literal magical thinking - they might as well say library buildings can spontaneously develop sentience, "somehow", cos of all the books inside.
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