Em 
If you want to hire someone with a guarantee that they will not be using any AI in their work, let me know, I'm still available (and semi-looking).
More information on the types of work I'm looking for on my profile page pinned post 
Mjurn@Em0nM4stodon Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. With other words, learn it, even if you don't like it. You will end up like everyone who refused computers in the 90s.
Em :official_verified: (@[email protected])
I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will. I'm making this choice because: • This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation. • This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us. • This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution. • This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere. • This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve. • This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires. • This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people. • This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships. • This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos. • This technology... #NoAI
@Em0nM4stodon Just and advice of course but I'm pretty sure we all have to eventually. If it's going to be anything like the computer and internet boom, those who don't adapt will be left behind. Take care, 🍻
ocdtrekkie@Mjurn @Em0nM4stodon For what it's worth, people not getting in on the ground floor of cryptocurrency can still buy stuff. Fads come and fads go.
Also, even if AI is like "computers" or "the Internet", it is getting easier to use/better at doing the right thing with less effort. So it will, if anything, be even easier to start using later than it is now. The idea one will get "left behind" is quite silly.
@ocdtrekkie @Em0nM4stodon crypto currencies are not even remotely a good comparison. Crypto is more like the change from CD and Video tapes to streaming online. Bitcoin is like pirate bay. AI is a tool you use to do things faster or for automation.
@Mjurn @Em0nM4stodon As a certified AI technical practitioner, I can tell you that using LLMs for automation is often a poor choice, because you generally want predictable, repetitive responses in automated processes, and LLMs is nondeterministic. (Things like computer vision are a bit different.) You can certainly generate more code faster with LLMs, but whether or not that is a good thing is still very much to be determined.
@Mjurn @Em0nM4stodon Ethical issues aside, there are some interesting benefits in rapid prototyping and mocking where quality is unimportant, but if you end up using LLM-generated output in production (I have), you will need to spend roughly as much time you saved writing it on reviewing and validating it.
@ocdtrekkie @Em0nM4stodon the AI tool as we use it today has been here for how long? 2 to 3 years. It took 20 to 30 years for the internet to happen, and then 5 to 10 years to be implemented to the public. AI is not even a toddler yet so it's way to soon to put a definitive place holder for AI.
@Mjurn @Em0nM4stodon There's a lot wrong with this comment and I could spend several responses picking it apart, but I get you're a relentless fan of the tech (I believe "AI-pilled" is the term of the month) and it's just not really worth it to engage further.
@ocdtrekkie @Em0nM4stodon There are alternatives that are more ethical than the major once. Also, people laugh at the dreamers who talked about having a phone in their pockets in the 90s.