@evacide feature not a bug

@Viss What I am not confident in is the ability of tech CEOs to prioritize delivering products that are not pure shit.

Delivering quality vs. delivering pure crap at a much lower cost?

@berniethewordsmith @WellsiteGeo @Remittancegirl not meaning to give people ideas. The homeless have enough problems

@WellsiteGeo @berniethewordsmith @Remittancegirl then why not talk dirty to a homeless person in their neighborhood?

@berniethewordsmith @Remittancegirl it is not only hype vs doom. Most of the time when AI ML is applied, it is an excuse for continuing current societal inequities with the excuse of it being "just math" and logic. See "Weapons of Math Destruction", " Algoritms of Oppression", etc.

There is also tons of AI washing. 404 media had an interesting interview recently with a data labeler in Kenya whose work includes being basically a sex worker for people getting off on chatbots. I wonder if their fantasy life would be as good if they knew they were dealing with a stressed low wage worker getting PTSD from catering to their kinks.

I have also been at academic meetings where most of the research used the "wizard of Oz" method: A human being pretended to be a chatbot, because these experts were unable to get an LLM to produce a useful output reliably.

In my mind it is slop and grift

@Em0nM4stodon But, Hype! Grift! You will be left behind if everyone else does it! You will die from our pollution anyway!

@briankrebs Honestly, I think the tech industry is mainly interesting in showing everyone that uses their products how much they hold them in contempt.

Every day they find a new way to spit in our faces. And we are powerless to resist.

@evacide Now we know why Zuckerberg backs Trump...

@AlSweigart Wait, you mean Wikipedia is not firing 1/3 of its staff and replacing them with AI bots designed to praise billionaires and the President?

How are you supposed to trust Wikipedia ever again!!

@0xabad1dea Examples of bad English to Russian translation from 1980s:

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"

became

"The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten"