<![CDATA[Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype.]]>Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. His example of how LLMs are adding value to the economy? They make cold calling more efficient for salespeople. Yup, spam really is the most important use case for LLM fans.

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/JYeo18/statuses/116393404206150705https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/JYeo18/statuses/116393404206150705Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:33:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:50:25 GMT]]>@miblo @the_wub @david_chisnall

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” -- Oscar Wilde, *The Picture of Dorian Gray*

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LevZadov/statuses/116393235315882861https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LevZadov/statuses/116393235315882861Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:50:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:49:39 GMT]]>@david_chisnall

Oh just wait. In no time at all boomers will be getting calls from ai-tom hanks and will all be up posting on FB abt how "Tom Hanks" *personally* is helping them do a reverse mortgage or some shit... 🙄

Never underestimate the gullibility of the herd.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736792646413589/statuses/116392996340224777https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115736792646413589/statuses/116392996340224777Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:49:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:39:04 GMT]]>@david_chisnall Ai making cold calls? I call it frozen calls. Never in a lifetime the get warm enough to be considered. Use of AI disqualifies them from the get go.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.sl/users/afink/statuses/116392954739274847https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.sl/users/afink/statuses/116392954739274847Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:39:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:25:49 GMT]]>@toldtheworld @david_chisnall ok, so you have one anecdote of one person getting one use out of it, whereas the rest of the world is drowning in slop.

i don't think this tech has any legitimate uses.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/116392902628067372https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/116392902628067372Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:25:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:24:49 GMT]]>@david_chisnall @me_ “This thing where 90% of it shouldn’t be happening anyway? We can let you do so much more of it! Oh, but only the bad 90%.”

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pdx.social/users/a/statuses/116392898719885529https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pdx.social/users/a/statuses/116392898719885529Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:24:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:24:38 GMT]]>@atax1a @david_chisnall I heard it from a blind person at a disability awareness center (Dialog im Dunkel)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/toldtheworld/statuses/116392897938142355https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/toldtheworld/statuses/116392897938142355Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:24:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:23:18 GMT]]>@stuartb @david_chisnall wasn't there someone using them to waste the time of scammers?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/toldtheworld/statuses/116392892697680231https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/toldtheworld/statuses/116392892697680231Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:23:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:19:35 GMT]]>@toldtheworld @david_chisnall I do, as I've been asked to look into the slop machines at work -- and yes, I objected. But there's a use-case I've not seen mentioned and that's using the embeddings models to do semantic search.

SS isn't new, but doing it now is a matter of installing ollama, and postgres with pgvector, and getting on with it.

It doesn't solve the ethical issues, but it genuinely does work *if* you're willing to overlook that.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://splodge.fluff.org/users/dickon/statuses/116392878120248165https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://splodge.fluff.org/users/dickon/statuses/116392878120248165Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:19:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:23 GMT]]>@individeweal @toldtheworld @david_chisnall I couldn't quickly find it, but in last half week or so I saw about someone with specific accessibility needs around mobility having an LLM create a tool working how they needed it to, IIRC for navigating on computer.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.hackerspace.pl/users/viq/statuses/116392802593229658https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.hackerspace.pl/users/viq/statuses/116392802593229658Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:57:00 GMT]]>@david_chisnall all we need now is someone to use an LLM to answer spam calls...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.teamb.space/users/stuartb/statuses/116392789331128801https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.teamb.space/users/stuartb/statuses/116392789331128801Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:57:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:56:09 GMT]]>@toldtheworld @david_chisnall the visually-impaired people we've seen around here say that the slop descriptions are worse than nothing. all of this cheerleading about "good for people with disabilities" appears to come from tech weenies doing white-saviorism.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/116392785955469591https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/116392785955469591Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:56:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:48:14 GMT]]>@toldtheworld @david_chisnall I've heard it's an improvement on conventional speech-to-text. Anecdotal, but anecdotes from people with e.g. major motor disabilities who actually rely on voice typing as a tool.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/individeweal/statuses/116392754850016667https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/individeweal/statuses/116392754850016667Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:48:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:36:39 GMT]]>@david_chisnall serious ask: I've been trying to compile a list of use cases for which generative AI is a better or more viable alternative. The one example I can come up with is for visually impaired people to interact with pictures sent to them (asking questions about them) or with product at stores without having to wait for a human to be available. That's it. Do you know any others?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/toldtheworld/statuses/116392709261644769https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/toldtheworld/statuses/116392709261644769Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:36:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:20:21 GMT]]>@david_chisnall This has made something click in my head, it's always about the spam isn't it? Like, everyone stopped answering their landline because of it, then email spam became a solved problem so then we got social media spam instead which drove people away from social media. So now we've got content spam that didn't even get written by anyone.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ravenation.club/users/nske/statuses/116392645222586444https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ravenation.club/users/nske/statuses/116392645222586444Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:20:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:12:45 GMT]]>@the_wub @david_chisnall Oh gosh, yeah! All the kind of activities a society'd go for if it only recognises one kind of value: monetary.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/miblo/statuses/116392615299162363https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/miblo/statuses/116392615299162363Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:12:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:00:57 GMT]]>@miblo @david_chisnall Not to mention funeral homes.

Then there are venture capital funded care homes and companies providing support for the now disabled car drivers/passengers in their homes and modified cars for those with life changing injuries.

All these services being paid for by taxpayers thus increasing profit for the private companies involved by moving money that the government raises from its citizens into the pockets of speculators in the private sector.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/the_wub/statuses/116392568900436923https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/the_wub/statuses/116392568900436923Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:00:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:58:00 GMT]]>@dysfun It was. Literally. The economy benefits because third-rate sales people are able to do more cold calling (meanwhile, the first-rate ones are building trust with their customers, who then buy more things from them, something LLMs do not help with at all).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/david_chisnall/statuses/116392557315855324https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/david_chisnall/statuses/116392557315855324Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:58:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:52:48 GMT]]>@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange commitment. Also a characteristic of spammers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.pouyan.net/objects/98c8735b-53c6-40f5-8254-85c9460dded7https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.pouyan.net/objects/98c8735b-53c6-40f5-8254-85c9460dded7Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:52:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wow, someone created a Mastodon account specifically to jump into a thread and disagree with me about 'AI' hype. on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:46:19 GMT]]>@david_chisnall Sounds just like arguing for car crashes adding value to the economy, on the basis that they can bring in business for garages / car dealers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/miblo/statuses/116392511372987770https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/miblo/statuses/116392511372987770Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:46:19 GMT