@alterelefant @berniethewordsmith A small recent example that could have ended in tragedy : https://www.surfertoday.com/environment/chatgpt-wrong-tide-times-wales-rescue

Belief in "AI" information is a shortcut to obtaining the Darwin Award....

@berniethewordsmith Excellent thread Bernie. Rather than technophobes I'd class those sounding the warnings and rejecting LLMs/"AI"/Emporers New Clothes as the Canary in the mine.
I've been involved with computing/programming since the early 1980s and have been enthusiastic about many of the technological developments. Most of the tech was used to produce tools which we could use to help get stuff done. We knew how it worked, and outcomes could be tested and predicted. LLM are not this!

@IngridHbn "radical leftist scum" = everyone who isn't one of the far right. Because when you're far right the other 95%(?) of humanity is left of you.

@HailsandAles