da_667This is a very eloquently written adventure into what most of us know as ai fuckery. I don't want to ruin it for you. Read it yourself, please.
I'm always learning something from @mttaggart , and this is no exception.
I feel as though I'm in a similar position. I detest that this technology exists. The same way that I detest web3 exists. The same way that I detest how absolutely abysmal the cloud/CDNS are when we had an opportunity to make REAL CHANGE in internet-scale computing. The same way we all hate every major change in tech that is extremely poorly thought out.
I've actively avoided it, except in cases in which I used it to check for, and I'm not making this up, plagiarism/cheating in take-home exam for an internship position on our security team. Let me tell you how disheartening it is to find five different candidates from five different prestigious universities from around the country, all regurgitating the exact same incorrect answers from ChatGPT/Copilot.
I weep for critical thinking. I weep for I don't know. But I want to learn more.
Paul_IPv6every time someone takes something we love and are excited by, simplifies it, commercializes it, exploits it, it's hard. we didn't do it because we respect the tech, respect the users, etc. then some snake oil salesman takes something we had such hopes for and sells the pale shadow of a glimmer of what it could have been.
best we can do is continue to do good work, work with smark folks, try to make something of value that we aren't ashamed of. every so often, the good folks win.
OSI was going to rule the tech world. every beltway bandit and consulting slime were poised to bend over every government in the world. vendors were licking their chops and sharpening their knives. but TCP/IP actually worked. heterogenous. no vendor lockin. plenty of stuff that worked right then. the internet and TCP/IP won. we can do it again.