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@RuthSalter beautiful.
@Christopher Here in Silicon Valley, driverless cars are becoming ubiquitous, even as they safety, efficiency, and efficacy has never been demonstrated. It's frustrating as fuck, as local government is powerless to stop it (it's regulated at the state level).
@paninid Thank you! I want to vent, but ironically, b/c mastodon is the underbelly of social media, I can say stuff here that I cannot on bs.

But it's not a human, it's an inference engine. It's not capable of being "right" or "wrong". Those attributes are meaninglessly applied to AI.

Even though I'm new to the job, I've had to fix fix two major AI fuck-ups.

Despite this, my co-workers continue to use Cursor. Meanwhile, I'm trying to retain my humanity by not using it—knowing that is ultimately futile not because the machines will take over, but because humans will cede their authority to inference engines and plagiarism machines.

I see my co-worker using Cursor a lot, mostly to validate that the code he's about to run does what he wants it to do. Occasionally, he asks it what to do next if he's stuck on why the damn terraform isn't planning.

Mostly it's right about what the TF will do. But especially for the "help me solve this" tasks, it's wrong. Just flat wrong. If it were human, sociopathic levels of wrong.

Her content isn't LLM adjacent, so I do not want nor expect her to be current on AI madness. I want to focus on this snippet because this is what EVERYONE (citation not needed) is saying about AIs. If anyone thinks about it for a moment instead of just regurgitating what Altmanbots want us to believe, what are the actual beneficial uses of AI to her? To anyone?
I just watched a video of a content creator warning her audience that a posed picture of her was AI. That's in and of itself horrible. But the part I want to focus on when she said up top, "Sometimes it can be used it a good and positive way".
I do not understand the fascination with LLMs, AI, and self-driving. It's as though tech douchbro took the sci-fi dystopias of the 80s and 90s and due to their sociopathy read them as instruction manuals.
Hi! I may be back on this platform. Or not. We'll see. There is a low probability that anyone from my employer will ever find me here, so when I need to vent about work (without naming the employer), I might do so here (It will probably be about AI and LLMs).
I need a multi-volume encyclopedia set written by Philomena Cunk