I’m curious if you can articulate the difference between being critical of how a particular technology is owned and managed versus being a Luddite?

Is environmental impact on the top of anyones list for why they don’t like ChatGPT? It’s not on mine nor on anyones I have talked to.

The two most common reasons I hear are 1) no trust in the companies hosting the tools to protect consumers and 2) rampant theft of IP to train LLM models.

The author moves away from strict environmental focus despite claims to the contrary in their intro,

This post is not about the broader climate impacts of AI beyond chatbots, or about whether AI is bad for other reasons

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Other Objections, This is all a gimmick anyway. Why not just use Google? ChatGPT doesn’t give better information

… yet doesn’t address the most common criticisms.

Worse, the author accuses anyone who pauses to think of the negatives of ChatGPT of being absurdly illogical.

Being around a lot of adults freaking out over 3 Wh feels like I’m in a dream reality. It has the logic of a bad dream. Everyone is suddenly fixating on this absurd concept or rule that you can’t get a grasp of, and scolding you for not seeing the same thing. Posting long blog posts is my attempt to get out of the weird dream reality this discourse has created.

IDK what logical fallacy this is but claiming people are “freaking out over 3Wh” is very disingenuous.

Rating as basic content: 2/10, poor and disingenuous argument

Rating as example of AI writing: 5/10, I’ve certainly seen worse AI slop

I’ll wait to hear the opinions of James Corden, Ellen DeGeneres, Shia Labouf, JK Rowling, and Will Smith before selecting a new OS, thanks.

I’m not holding my breath. We have a Z that insists no one in her generation wants to put up with the 24/7 availability expected from those who want to advance in our industry. Yet I received emails from her over the weekend.

They’re human, same as the rest of us, and will justify all the bad labor hygiene that older generations have.

I wish. They must pay well given the number of content creators that advertise for them.

You read multiple sources and look for the facts, not declarations of victory or failure.

Like how Milei is, by his own statements, anti-union, anti-LGBT, anti-pension, anti-abortion, anti-vaxx, pro-military/intelligence industry, pro-genocide in Palestine, and pro-unregulated crypto. All of which I don’t like personally; I’m not an anarchocapitalist. I don’t really care if one financial metric goes up or down that some will hail as “success” if the lives of so many are made significantly worse in the exchange.

Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.

Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.

acknowledges the term was made to troll LGBT people

Why can’t we have a good faith conversation on this?

K, sure.

Zero.

If someone I know asks me for money, I’m at least asking them “what’s up? Everything ok?” before giving them money.

Then after that, still probably zero because I don’t have any cash in my wallet atm. So hopefully I can help in some other way, give them a lift somewhere, cover a meal, something.

Overcoming writers block or whatever you want to call it

Like writing an obit or thank you message that doesn’t sound stupid. I just need a sentence down to work from, even though it doesn’t make it to final draft.

Or I needed to come up with activities to teach 4th graders about aerodynamics for a STEM outreach thing. None of the output from LLM was usable as it was spit out but was enough for me to kickstart real ideas

My company recently released a beta “AI” tool to do similar.

What I’ve found but was 0% surprised by, our documentation has conflicts. It still takes an experienced, knowledgeable person to notice that there’s a conflict, then dive into source documentation to resolve them.

What going to happen is they think they can cheap out on hiring/retaining employees with those abilities.

I would bet a dollar the documentation in nuclear has similar conflicts and similar if not greater experienced human knowledge to resolve them.

I also do auditing/compliance and I would love to be a fly on the wall while they explain the chain of logic and objective evidence that it works leading to offloading tasks to AI.

It actually surprises me to see 46/33. Gut feel, I would have put it closer to 60/20.

Making it even tougher for Frameworks to win a customer like you over, even without 40%+ fuckery in pricing.

This is a hardware startup trying to attract customers away from the likes of Lenova, who has simpler products, a more mature supply chain, and economy-of-scale to their advantage. No way are they pricing to absorb 40%+ with day-to-day swings unless they have to.

Edit up front: there is no evidence article author “Rose Dixon” is a real person. The article is filed under “Garden”. They really need to ratchet down the jingoism dial on their AI slop.

Really hitting the, “rah rah, America is the best” propaganda in this article.

Note that Aziza Almanakly, the lead author of the study, is a PD Soros Fellowship recipient. (Not to be confused with a different person identified as “lead author” later in the article).

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides merit-based funding for New Americans, immigrants and children of immigrants, who are poised to make significant contributions to US culture, society and academia.

Paul Soros is George Soros’ brother and less visible partner.

If the current US administration had their way, the leader of this “American achievement” would be in a prison in El Salvador.

No specific piercing. I’m vanilla AF, so any piercing or amount of piercing that I can’t help but stare at probably means we aren’t a great match.

Actual red flag … maybe if the piercing has a swastika or other political/religious/other sentiment I find abhorrent.

That’s why I said this part

Put your anti-MAGA efforts towards improving your IRL community where you don’t have to futilely battle pseudonymous trolls.

Edit: that was a little blunt. To elaborate, I don’t engage everyone I see in the grocery store wearing a MAGA hat. I don’t knock on the door of everyone flying a Trump flag. I don’t engage the white nationalist ass hat spouting off in the bar. We pick our battles based on many factors, including personal safety and well being. Find a way to help that actually does something and makes you feel good about it.

I’m here for entertainment, as I assume most people are. If seeing that sort of rhetoric is a negative to you, block it. Marie Kondo your online life and yeet anything out the window that doesn’t spark joy. Put your anti-MAGA efforts towards improving your IRL community where you don’t have to futilely battle pseudonymous trolls.

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Pool of $300,000 of cryptocurrency?

A developer of a top game can expect $25,000 a week in the cryptocurrency?

So they’re expecting, say, four “top” games for three weeks and then the pool is used up. Feels like a new evolution of crypto scam.