Mastodawn

LLM users respect a chatbot more than potential contributors is the worst part of all this. Everyone was capable of writing basic docs all along. They just didn’t want to for a fellow human.

I don’t know what exactly is it when you treat people as things and things as people, but it sure is fucking gross.

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maxine 🇵🇸Mar 12

I dunno, I guess a lot more people in life always wanted to be managers. The kind of people who specifically want yesmen in their lives, and refused to write docs to not have to deal with contributors who might challenge things. It’s deeply pathetic and sad. Hierarchies and abuse, that’s all it comes down to.

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Marianne Mar 16

@maxine "Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."
Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld)

#bookstodon #quotes #GNUTerryPratchett

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maxine 🇵🇸Mar 16

@noodlemaz yes, that was the intentional reference I was making, while highlighting the inversion that happens with LLM users

I dearly miss what Granny represented

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Anthony Mar 16

@[email protected] Among other things, we become callous and lose empathy. From a talk by Sherry Turkle, "Who do we become when we talk to machines?", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy7bpyt_vnE
A self over the past 20 years that’s become starved of the give and take of conversation, that hasn’t learned to tolerate vulnerability and respect the vulnerability of others, is primed to look to technology for simpler fare.

We treated programs as though they were people, but now we are trained to treat people as though they were programs. To me that’s the moment to mark. It’s not whether or not chatbots are fascinating, or smart, or pass the Turing test. It’s what it’s doing to our treating people as if they were only machines.