Robert Kingett
The AI industry is absolute shit, and I have nothing good to say about it, but I do agree with this conclusion wholeheartedly. The entire AI industry, not the actual much more intelligent machine learning engineers and scientists can never be redeemed, but I agree with this conclusion but yikes, the beginning was very tough to get through. I do fully agree with their conclusion though. The tech, by itself, isn't the problem, mostly. The marketing versions of these LLMs were made to sell to people and are pushed by the worst kind of people, ever, though, so, read the end. . https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/13/against-vibes-part-2-ought-you-use-a-generative-model/ #AI #LLM
Against Vibes Part 2: Ought You Use a Generative Model

Since the wide-spread availability and forced deployment of generative models, people have argued about the ethics of using them. Many arguments have been presented to argue that they're _bad_: they use too much electricity, boil the oceans, massively inf...

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Show threadKynxMar 18

Thanks, @WeirdWriter , that’s a worthwhile long read. I’m getting as tired of the purist / pragmatist argument amongst people who all basically all agree the AI industry is shit as I am of “AI” itself.

At least this guy lays out the framework he is evaluating it from and argues from within that. _And_ comes to the right conclusion!

Show threadRobert KingettMar 18
@Kynx The AI industry is absolute shit. There is no leeway in that I feel