Mastodawn

RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/116586227741468965

You can't tell the world you use AI for *just this small thing* without contributing to the legitimacy of the whole AI industry.

You also can't use AI for *just this small thing* and think that you won't become the next *just this small thing*.

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Stephen Farrugia May 19

I won't try to argue the ethical issues of using LLMs — because, as real as they are, when you use it for *just this small thing* you've made your choice.

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Stephen Farrugia May 19

I don't doubt how useful you believe it is for *just this small thing*, but I do doubt how much you really care about *just this small thing* to accept a product which is incidentally useful instead of recognising that any legitimate purpose deserves a product legitimately designed to satisfy it.

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Stephen Farrugia May 19

LLMs are not designed for a purpose. They are not designed for a group of related purposes. They are not a product of design.

They are a mechanism of design which is being reactively presented as solutions for whatever purposes seem to have the most revenue potential.

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Stephen Farrugia May 19

Any product which is not designed for an *anchoring* purpose is doomed to chase revenue how ever it can.

Your *just this small thing* which AI seems helpful for is an accident.

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Meznor

RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/116602509715514659

...and it is no surprise (or should not be) that the traditionally revenue generating things - surveillance, war, clickbait-y disinformation - are emerging as revenue generating use cases above and beyond any others. The system (and small group of proveably bad people) that created genAI/LLMs/MLs are repeating their dominant patterns of exploitation and harm.