David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. His example of how LLMs are adding value to the economy? They make cold calling more efficient for salespeople. Yup, spam really is the most important use case for LLM fans.
toldtheworld@david_chisnall serious ask: I've been trying to compile a list of use cases for which generative AI is a better or more viable alternative. The one example I can come up with is for visually impaired people to interact with pictures sent to them (asking questions about them) or with product at stores without having to wait for a human to be available. That's it. Do you know any others?
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@toldtheworld @david_chisnall the visually-impaired people we've seen around here say that the slop descriptions are worse than nothing. all of this cheerleading about "good for people with disabilities" appears to come from tech weenies doing white-saviorism.
@atax1a @david_chisnall I heard it from a blind person at a disability awareness center (Dialog im Dunkel)
@toldtheworld @david_chisnall ok, so you have one anecdote of one person getting one use out of it, whereas the rest of the world is drowning in slop.
i don't think this tech has any legitimate uses.