Luke

@lshillman
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Chicken tender, concertinist, environmentalist, tech worker/critic, neutral good.

For the more discriminating set, I'm @luke.

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header: a white chicken in the middle of a corridor on the Starship Enterprise, next to an open door to a room full of straw bales.

avatar: painting of a wild-haired and mutton-chopped Alexander Pushkin, who I'm told I resemble.

websitehttps://lukehillman.net
No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.

"The feedback. You wrote it, we came."

"It's just a satisfaction survey!!"

"Oh no. It is a means to summon us."

"Who are you??"

"Designers. In the further regions of #UserExperience. Demons to some. Angels to others. We have such sights to show you."

"If you don't care, it's miraculous. If you do, the illusion falls apart pretty quickly.

The fact that the userbase for AI chatbots has exploded exponentially demonstrates that good enough is, in fact, good enough for most people. Because most people don't care." #AI

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind

LLM-powered chatbots are, correspondingly, Cybertrucks.

Mump (Musk + Trump)

The USA has the mumps. And we have bad news about vaccines.

i just tried to explain the culture of fossbros to my husband as "fossbros are to techbros what libertarians are to republicans"

Next up on my quest to learn more #antifascist #accordion tunes: The Battle Hymn of the Republic / John Brown's Body. A simple one, but catchy AF.

#concertina #uspol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTtBEaoeV28

Antifascist Classics: Battle Hymn of the Republic

YouTube

Anyway, TL;DR, impressed and fascinated as I am by LLMs and GPTs as technology, the things we're using them for are just dumb and, in many cases, dangerous.

The more of these artificial liars get rolled out, the more we have to choose between believing everything the machine says -- which is lunacy -- or believing nothing that it says -- which is exhausting.

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I am a professional and take my work profiles very seriously.
this seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of the passions of human-centered researchers, but good luck I guess