<![CDATA[There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed.]]>There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Young people don't like the slop, the most tech people have the harshest words.

The typical AI fan doesn't know how it works or the limitations: this blind spot makes them both dazzled and fearful ... therefore unable to assign blame to humans when they do crime in a computer suit.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/a50d06f7-816c-4abb-b1d4-eb1dfe19c8b1/there-is-an-attempt-to-make-people-feel-like-being-critical-of-using-llms-is-not-hip-and-with-it-only-old-people-who-don-t-understand-technology-are-unimpressed.RSS for NodeTue, 29 Sep 2026 04:04:17 GMTSun, 27 Sep 2026 12:58:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:00:07 GMT]]>@worik @futurebird using what?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.no2nd.earth/users/stephan324ppm/statuses/117348788324765138https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.no2nd.earth/users/stephan324ppm/statuses/117348788324765138Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:00:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:41:55 GMT]]>@futurebird I am old, baby boomer gen and everytime I read these threads I get the feeling that us old withered specimens get the blame for AI because we don't always spot it. I can barely spot my wife without my sodding glasses.

Many may not understand it but its not our fucking fault that it's taken over. It's middle aged tech bros mostly and the younger people who actually work on LLMs.

End of rant... Apologies, I am going back to eating my liquidised food while sitting in the rocking chair and shouting at the neighbours kids. Feel free to ignore me.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lgbtqia.space/users/SamanthaJaneSmith/statuses/117347773018842674https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lgbtqia.space/users/SamanthaJaneSmith/statuses/117347773018842674Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:41:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:11:09 GMT]]>@ATLeagle @veronica @Phosphenes @rgulick @futurebird

In difficult cases I use my kids senses too. 😄

Sometime they can not tell why, but most times they can point wmout what is wrong.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/desatyr/statuses/117347652016250783https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/desatyr/statuses/117347652016250783Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:11:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:47:58 GMT]]>@futurebird ... I am totally writing this out as a quotation to put on my wall. In my crappy calligraphy. Because this sums it all up beautifully. Thank you.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.lgbt/users/Akki/statuses/117347324952854528https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.lgbt/users/Akki/statuses/117347324952854528Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:47:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:40:30 GMT]]>@futurebird

"Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222429251314491

(Full article is sadly paywalled but the abstract summarises. The final two sentences may make you want to scream into the abyss for a while.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/zeborah/statuses/117346115937943218https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/zeborah/statuses/117346115937943218Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:40:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:17:12 GMT]]>@bob @Peace @futurebird

BTW my vibe-coded IoT experiment: https://codeberg.org/worik/castle-iot

Only Tapu switches for now, all I need.

But a lovely touch screen interface - no X-windows straight SDL on the console.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345552438389446https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345552438389446Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:17:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:15:53 GMT]]>@bob @Peace @futurebird

I have a IoT system in my house. It has no AI in it, but I built it with AI. It was my first experiment in "Vibe Coding". I was using Home Assistant - but it illustrates everything wrong (IMO) with a lot of modern Free Software. It is bloated, slow and uses resources like no body pays. My Raspberry Pi 4 was crashing because it overheated running Home Assistant OS.

Methinks AI features have landed, or are due to land, in HA. MÄ“h! Good lucjk to them!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345547280027120https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345547280027120Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:15:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:14:49 GMT]]>@bob @Peace @futurebird Ok! I get your point!! "Smart bulbs", yuck. Even when they were WiFi enabled light bulbs, but, golly, do we get AI enabled bulbs now? Surely not! Say it is not true.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345543114532370https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345543114532370Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:14:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:08:13 GMT]]>@desatyr @veronica @Phosphenes @rgulick @futurebird my 15 year old calls out AI images and videos instantly, even in thibgs that are really well done. I will ask her what she sees, and it will take her some time to point out the things that gave her the feel. When I look at her points, she is invariably correct.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/ATLeagle/statuses/117345517143156977https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/ATLeagle/statuses/117345517143156977Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:08:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:35:19 GMT]]>@futurebird@sauropods.win

Basically this picture.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/01a0e502-2b49-7179-b173-ca4c4b10d145https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/01a0e502-2b49-7179-b173-ca4c4b10d145Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:35:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:29:01 GMT]]>@Robinzz3 @futurebird "It has no private agenda, no hunger for status, money, sex, power or approval." that's all pretty true! However, it is built by corporations and funded by investors, all of whom have agendas and they're all bad
The only exceptions I can think of to "LLMs are completely controlled by technofascist oligarchs" are DeepSeek and that one Meta accidentally leaked and then made open source (which was still built by a corporation, one notorious for blatant human rights violations)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/raphaelmorgan/statuses/117345363008174024https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/raphaelmorgan/statuses/117345363008174024Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:29:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:23:31 GMT]]>@richpuchalsky @futurebird are you sure she meant "most of the tech people" and not "the most techy of the tech people"?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/raphaelmorgan/statuses/117345341369989502https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/raphaelmorgan/statuses/117345341369989502Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:23:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:56:41 GMT]]>@stephan324ppm @futurebird Cory Doctorow is a user

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345235874873447https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345235874873447Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:56:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:56:06 GMT]]>@aeischeid @futurebird That is not true. I have seen at least two use cases outside software development

1. Summerising long documents

2. Reviewing documents (a spell checker on steroids)

In software I find it more useful to have it review my code than have me review it's code

Point is, it is too new to understand properly where it's weaknesses and strengths lie

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345233538409343https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345233538409343Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:56:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:49:38 GMT]]>@bob @Peace @futurebird light bulbs are so much better now

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345208119949846https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345208119949846Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:49:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:47:37 GMT]]>@futurebird Yea, nah!

I know it very well, I have been an early adopter.

Two things true: 1. The most disruptive technology since the Internet, perhaps the steam engine. 2. The promoters and heads of AI companies, are crooks, greed heads and grifters

I am astounded at the rate of progress and dismayed by the culture of slop

The "doomers" and the "boosters" (I claim I am neither) are indistinguishable

A very strange time to be involved in computing

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345200203677660https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/117345200203677660Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:47:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:53:43 GMT]]>@PaulWermer @futurebird yeah, and they continue doing it even though I've lost count of the amount of times I've said "and what does the source say", only for them to discover it doesn't say what the chatbot said.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/puretaste/statuses/117344988267479830https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/puretaste/statuses/117344988267479830Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:53:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:35:12 GMT]]>@Robinzz3@aus.social

I’m a fan because I don’t believe AI wants anything from us.

AI doesn’t want anything from us. The companies that create and sell us AI, now that’s an entirely different story.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kbin.earth/m/random/p/2079813/-/reply/2000000https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kbin.earth/m/random/p/2079813/-/reply/2000000Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:35:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:33:50 GMT]]>@futurebird Being convinced to "create with ai" shows a total lack of understanding both the technology and the arts.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/ZoidbergForPresident/statuses/117344910052073627https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/ZoidbergForPresident/statuses/117344910052073627Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:33:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:04:34 GMT]]>@futurebird

i feel like the pan flashed very quickly and older people are the main ones still talking about how impressive it all is.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://functional.cafe/users/prozacchiwawa/statuses/117344794999804546https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://functional.cafe/users/prozacchiwawa/statuses/117344794999804546Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:04:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:02:16 GMT]]>@puretaste
I am stunned by the people using AI, and how they fail to validate what they get. Yes, a lot of over 60s, but several late 30s or 40s. Grew up with computers, but not necessarily especially tech savvy)

(While I qualify as an old guy, I seen a enough less than accurate or relevant responses in simple on line search responses to feel I was listening to the sleazier salesmen pushing their product over a competitors version.

(I use 'salesmen' intentionally, as there were very few women in the areas I worked in, and those few were very reliable)

@futurebird

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/PaulWermer/statuses/117344785952978103https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/PaulWermer/statuses/117344785952978103Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:02:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:50:30 GMT]]>@puretaste @futurebird the people who’ve been waiting for Star Trek or Star Wars to happen are like fuck yeah and the people who’ve been watching cyberpunk happen are like welp, here’s some more of it

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/puercomal/statuses/117344739658345556https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/puercomal/statuses/117344739658345556Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:50:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:35:31 GMT]]>@futurebird
I think there is a big divide between what people on Mastodon think people in general think of ai and reality.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.community/users/Noisecolor/statuses/117344680767285506https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.community/users/Noisecolor/statuses/117344680767285506Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:35:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:51:45 GMT]]>@indigoparadox @futurebird I hope at least rss, instant messaging, mailing lists or forums, and torrents remain.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/paculino/statuses/117344508673976228https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/paculino/statuses/117344508673976228Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:51:45 GMT