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  1. “There’s also the underlying unreliability of hallucination-prone Large Language Models. While a premium request chasing its tail and spitting out half-broken code might be frustrating, that same fuckup is a lot less forgivable when you’re paying the costs yourself.”

    AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
    wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-

  2. “There’s also the underlying unreliability of hallucination-prone Large Language Models. While a premium request chasing its tail and spitting out half-broken code might be frustrating, that same fuckup is a lot less forgivable when you’re paying the costs yourself.”

    #llm_ai #slopware

    AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
    wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-

  3. One thing that's been irking me about the adoption of AI is the homogenisation it brings. Not only in sentence structure, like the tell-tale 'It's not X, but Y', but in the loss of local phrases and culture. For instance, a colleague highlighted someone's work, but their message was clearly 'AI'ed and it felt slightly false and unnatural (while their English is excellent, it isn't so clearly US English). I found it quite sad that they trusted the AI more than themselves and felt the AI rewording gave the best chance of 'landing' the sentiment in our global team.

    More than that loss of 'local colour' (we're all going to speak American eventually anyway), it got me thinking about the plurality of thought, and how our thought is governed by our words. What if there's a good reason Italian is structured the way it is, or that German has a perfect word for something that we simply don't have in English? We aren't just losing local dialects or 'flavour' but whole ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, through the adoption of AI trained on a subset of a subset of the Anglospheric world. Even if you're using ChatGPT in French, the LLM is trained on English language data, and thus the resultant French will be in an English (well, US English) style.

    I know many on the Fediverse take a dim view on LLMs and GenAI anyway, but this isn't 'just' a technology or jobs issue, we could be losing far more of our diversity this way.

    #genAI #genaiuse #llm_ai #Culture

  4. One thing that's been irking me about the adoption of AI is the homogenisation it brings. Not only in sentence structure, like the tell-tale 'It's not X, but Y', but in the loss of local phrases and culture. For instance, a colleague highlighted someone's work, but their message was clearly 'AI'ed and it felt slightly false and unnatural (while their English is excellent, it isn't so clearly US English). I found it quite sad that they trusted the AI more than themselves and felt the AI rewording gave the best chance of 'landing' the sentiment in our global team.

    More than that loss of 'local colour' (we're all going to speak American eventually anyway), it got me thinking about the plurality of thought, and how our thought is governed by our words. What if there's a good reason Italian is structured the way it is, or that German has a perfect word for something that we simply don't have in English? We aren't just losing local dialects or 'flavour' but whole ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, through the adoption of AI trained on a subset of a subset of the Anglospheric world. Even if you're using ChatGPT in French, the LLM is trained on English language data, and thus the resultant French will be in an English (well, US English) style.

    I know many on the Fediverse take a dim view on LLMs and GenAI anyway, but this isn't 'just' a technology or jobs issue, we could be losing far more of our diversity this way.

    #genAI #genaiuse #llm_ai #Culture

  5. The Inverted Eucatastrophe of LLM Work
    Tolkien coined term. It describes the buildup of hopelessness and certain defeat and the precise point when, the hero is about to fall, something utterly unexpected breaks in from outside the story’s own logic and turns everything toward joy and redemption. The Eagles arrive.
    With LLMs I believe the inversion of this is unique ......
    x.com/i/status/203426195860246
    #Anthroposophy #LLMs #LLM_AI #llm #ethicalai

  6. The Inverted Eucatastrophe of LLM Work
    Tolkien coined term. It describes the buildup of hopelessness and certain defeat and the precise point when, the hero is about to fall, something utterly unexpected breaks in from outside the story’s own logic and turns everything toward joy and redemption. The Eagles arrive.
    With LLMs I believe the inversion of this is unique ......
    x.com/i/status/203426195860246
    #Anthroposophy #LLMs #LLM_AI #llm #ethicalai

  7. @_elena I think everyone I follow is #NoAI lol, I went from teaching data sci and physics to teaching how to circumvent/remove #LLMs in data sci and physics... it's tough for the kids trying to learn through this slop 🙃 One thing I think helps a bit is to specify when dragging #LLM_AI vs #DecisionTree_AI #NeuralNet_AI or #Statistical_AI etc. Alot of phys/ data sci here uses #AI as a catchall for all of #datascience including #MachineLearning so it can get confusing (is likely meant to be lol).

  8. @_elena I think everyone I follow is #NoAI lol, I went from teaching data sci and physics to teaching how to circumvent/remove #LLMs in data sci and physics... it's tough for the kids trying to learn through this slop 🙃 One thing I think helps a bit is to specify when dragging #LLM_AI vs #DecisionTree_AI #NeuralNet_AI or #Statistical_AI etc. Alot of phys/ data sci here uses #AI as a catchall for all of #datascience including #MachineLearning so it can get confusing (is likely meant to be lol).