One of the top threads on the ClaudeAI subreddit right now: "I am done with this shit" https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/

[emma@orbital.horse]

@pixelate @cwebber then you have to trust the model, the people hosting the model, the data being used in the model.

[guenther@chaos.social]

@cwebber i don't know what their problem is, my boss usually lets Claude raw-dog the production server over the weekend.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@emma @cwebber I also have to trust a deterministic screen reader that says all kinds of wrong or unintelligible stuff every day because abled people won't care about accessibility, and I still have to get stuff done. I have to trust sighted people when they say turn left that they didn't actually mean turn right. Do you just simply trust all that you see and hear? Why do you think I also wouldn't?

For LLM output specifically, I can ask another model, or I can simply enjoy the output of whatever cat picture I have it describe, or whatever meme, or even a continuous description of the view out of a bus window.

[imeddles@mastodon.eddmil.es]

@Yamakyu @alice @cwebber "has no business going so hard" is also a fantastic review of good condoms, so it works on multiple levels.

[screwlisp@gamerplus.org]

@cwebber as an outsider, from what I can tell having looked into it (well, not the reddit you just linked) initially the only way companies knew how to make putatively good chatbots was the extremely consumptive general pre-trained dense, large-model perceptrons of a single hidden layer.

All these people optimistically jumped onto their bobsleds, not wanting to miss out.

However once moved behind closed doors, the new multilayer perceptron ("moe") gpts benchmark while increasingly sucking.

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@cwebber Someone in that thread mentioned something called "AI 2027" and I found this: https://ai-2027.com/

Obvious divergence w/ reality... all the fundamental weaknesses of the technology are fantasized away as it takes over the world.

God this feels like NFTs again. They include "criticism" like "people hate AI because it'll take their jobs." No, people think you look dumb. Like a celeb posting "All my apes gone" on social media. It's at least partially irony-poisoned pity.

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@cwebber I really maintain LLMs are like the microwave. There are some narrow specific uses where it's good, but holy shit we're still in the "True Believers trying to make Thanksgiving dinner with them" phase.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pixelate @emma @cwebber

i heard an interview about people using AI to reconstruct their voices lost to cancer/ injury/ etc with AI

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-s1-5449081/people-who-have-lost-their-voices-are-using-ai-technology-to-regain-them

i also think things like protein folding/ cosmology/ etc can benefit from AI

there are valid uses for AI

there are also *invalid* uses for AI

and we have a right to voice that, without confusing the topic with valid uses for AI

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@indigoparadox @cwebber

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@jrdepriest @cwebber I did a search in my history intending to find the article I stole the microwave idea from, but apparently it was a video. Anyway, yeah, it's a popular idea because it's so darn *apt*. We used to have one of those cookbooks floating around unused until it vanished, so it really hit home.

[screwlisp@gamerplus.org]

@cwebber Similarly, I think a lot of nontechnical people went into business (bought a restaurant) after appraising that closed-source chatbot bobsleds could handle numbers decisions for them, and a large number of those naieve customers futures have been ruined by the closed, proprietary nominally profiteering replacement chatbots they later got stuck with, presented as though it was the one they partnered with while being told the new chatbot "is even better".

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@benroyce @pixelate @emma @cwebber The valid uses for AI are very seldom chatbot-based.

[emma@orbital.horse]

@ahltorp

The phrase "valid uses" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @pixelate @cwebber

[dpflug@hachyderm.io]

@Npars01
Last I heard, nvidia were making off like bandits, but otherwise...
@pinhman @cwebber

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@Aequitas @cwebber I myself am searching for a non-gendered alternative to "whipping boy", because that's the most graphic term for the position.

[mrfunkedude@beige.party]

@benroyce @pixelate @emma @cwebber i’m not going to be surprised if once the bubble pops all of the useful tools that they tried bundling into one package and call it “AI“, becomes their own individual tools.

[c0debabe@masto.hackers.town]

@alice @cwebber omg I just cackled

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@emma @ahltorp @cwebber The phrase heavy lifting is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@Dangerous_beans @thegrumpyenby @cwebber You don't believe the United Nations? What's wrong with *you*? Typical sighted person. Do the work. https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/comp500.htm

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pixelate @emma @ahltorp @cwebber

Devin:

nobody has a problem with the disabled community using AI

i celebrate those uses. we celebrate those uses

our complaints are about all the uses of AI that harm society

you know that. you understand that difference

so there is no need to fake a conflict that does not exist