Mastodawn

I'm either a cranky old lady or a reveloutionary. Or a simple Luddite. Who can say? But I'm jaw-droppingly surprised at the number of times I've been hearing "I used ChapGPT to..." lately from people who are not stupid and can write or research or whatever themselves. I don't begrudge a decent tool, but the fact that very intelligent, well-informed folks don't connect the dots from the art theft and giant drain on power grids to this convenience tool blows my mind.
End rant. 😔
#AI

HumToTable 3d ago

And in the same spirit of me as old lady raging against the machine, I encountered a whole parade of Waymo cars while driving down 19th Ave in San Francisco yesterday. In addition to seeing one run a red light, they had their wipers going. If there's no driver, why do the windshield wipers need to be on? 🤔

Autumn Meadow 3d ago

@HumToTable
To ensure everyone else can see that the car has no driver. This will encourage humans to use caution around the car, making the car look like it's driving with a greater success rate than it actually does.

I'm probably giving them too much credit for thinking that far ahead, but it's the only quasi-logical reason I can think of.

Display Name 3d ago

@meadow @HumToTable I think it may be a simpler reason. They are modified cars to become AV's. They have rain sensors like many other cars. But if you were riding one you probably would want to see the road too. I sure would.

Autumn Meadow 3d ago

@alper
That's a good point. I often forget my newer vehicle has automated wipers. When you don't actively interact with something, you don't think about it.

I strongly suspect you are right.
@HumToTable

Jim Hubbell 3d ago

@HumToTable
Because the driver is in the Philippines and needs to see?

HumToTable 2d ago

@Dougfir Ahhh...gotcha. 😄

HumToTable 13h ago

THIS! [waves old lady hands around wildly]
This is what I'm on about with bullshit #AI for petesake!
Not trying to shit on anyone's actual beneficial use case for AI. It's just that our ethics and infrastructure are soooooo woefully biased and inadequate to deal with the negative impact and ridiculous requirements.
#AIslop
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2026/apr/13/ai-website-steals-local-news-content-now-hallucina/

Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.13h ago

@HumToTable You do know the EU have a Product Liability Directive in place now that specifically assigns liability for "AI Psychosis" ?

HumToTable 13h ago

@bms48 No! Typical American that I am, was not aware the EU has that designation. 👍 More of this please!

Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.12h ago

@HumToTable #Starmer is leaning more EU ward so hopefully it will end up on our books too and UK-anians will be able to sue #Meta for their disgusting #AIslop driven behaviour more readily.

@HumToTable Same, friend. Same.

M.S. Bellows, Jr.3d ago

@HumToTable Last week I saw a lawyer on a Zoom call explain the topic we were discussing to her client by saying, "well, Google AI says..."

It was very difficult not to scream, but I managed.

mivox is exhausted

@msbellows @HumToTable Nobody’s learned anything from all the attorneys getting sanctioned for filing shit with bullshit AI citations?

blobcateyescoffee

HumToTable 2d ago

@mivox @msbellows Right?

M.S. Bellows, Jr.2d ago

@HumToTable @mivox I mean, this is an Oregon lawyer, and Oregon is where a court sanctioned a lawyer $10,000 last month for incorrect AI citations.

HumToTable 2d ago

@msbellows Yikes.