Mastodawn

I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

I dunno. The AI has made me much much more productive as my work involves me learning lots of new technical concepts and software all the time. It reduces a lot of barriers to understanding. I find it hugely helpful, but I do despise AI written content.

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derptron

@mikeinthecloud @Em0nM4stodon If you can find one that won't be a condescending prick, a human works much better for this.

I can adapt very quickly. I've had to my entire career. I didn't find some place and stay there so had to rebuild domain expertise every time.

It's gotten harder as I've aged but I've always considered it a very important skill. I wonder if I'd have developed it if I had a butt kissing AI instead of a bunch of condescending pricks to ask for help.

RTFM :p

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Kramit Feb 23

@crazyeddie @Em0nM4stodon first have to find that human, then they have to have the time to help you. I do not have that. As for an AI not being a ‘condescending prick’ you just need to get you prompt source correct. Try “non verbose answers” I find that cuts dow a lot of the fluff on the outputs.

But yeh, things like “I need to list all the files in this dir, filter for only pdf, then combine them, then run it though pandoc to convert to markdown, give me the shell commands”