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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 06:44:24 Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:01:04 @mttaggart I already don't care for it terribly much, but seeing google vomit an entire page of a computer taking clumsy stabs with a lack of links to the sources it citied to make that clumsy guess is so goddamn irritating. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:03:37 @da_667 Part of this is to demonstrate the magnitude of negative sentiment. Truly, I've not seen a disconnect between consumer preference and corporate strategy this wide since, I dunno, Windows 8 removed the Start menu. But that change didn't endanger the internet or, like, the power grid. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:06:41 @mttaggart I do have to admit there have been some instances where I've passed code to microsoft's LLM, whatever they're calling it now to help me understand how certain bits of code work, and it can be useful as a force multiplier, but I can't stand that its being forced upon us all everywhere we go. Like, I have no idea where the model got its data. In google's case, It could have consumed a well thought-out bit of documentation, a blog post, or a collection of shitposts from Reddit. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:12:38 @da_667 I would say code is where the utility is clearest, but the cost of making the tool valuable is utterly bananas compared to the value—and that's for quite the niche, to say nothing of everywhere else it's being mindlessly jammed. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:14:28 @mttaggart I cannot fathom the fact that there are companies that are like "yah, sure, spinning up our own private reactors and diverting major water supplies to power a datacenter are a perfectly rational venture to create a computer program that cannot tell you how many r's there are in the word strawberry." |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:22:53 @da_667 This is what I'm saying. And this isn't VC money; this is public corporation strategy intended to maximize shareholder value. How is that happening? The only conclusion that makes sense is that these execs are bought in on the (let's call it what it is) religious belief, the article of faith, that this technology must be pursued at all costs. And I guess, in MS's case, hopes that everyone's models will live in Azure data centers. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:29:01 @mttaggart we are the same mind on this, I think. There' is this willful suspension of disbelief that if enough tech heads say "AI is the future" it'll manifest into something useful. But all it is so far as a massive money sink. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 08:07:54 @da_667 So I'm writing this up properly, but MS Earnings Statements show their adventure has not been punished by the market. In the case of cloud, growth outstripped everything else, so I guess everyone really is drinking the Kool-Aid. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 08:24:54 @mttaggart correlation isn't causation, I think. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here with Microsoft having tried to charge for AI services (e.g. github copilot) and just integrating AI into cloud services that nobody asked for (e.g. Microsoft 365 co-pilot). They aren't charging money for these services, just shoveling them out with whatever other stuff MS customers buy. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 08:26:44 @da_667 I'm not saying they're directly profiting from the models. I'm saying they're not being punished for it in any meaningful way. But it's worth noting that end users are not the customers for their cloud services, and we actually have reason to believe that those business may indeed want AI for the same religious reasons. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 08:28:17 @mttaggart ah, yeah, that's definitely a fair assessment. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 07:47:58 @mttaggart |
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Föderation NL So 22.12.2024 08:00:24 @mttaggart Actually, I want *no* generative AI in my tech. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 09:00:16 @mttaggart I want less but it won’t happen. Even though AI can be used for all sort of cool stuff, generative AI in the form of bs writers is shoved in all sort of products. Just now I saw an ad from WiX about using AI to write a web site. I mean how useful is that? No useful at all. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 09:22:14 @mttaggart I use it on some photos to clean up distractions to make art not reportage. Not going to rule out other uses for other people, but I do move on from obvious synthetic time-wasting crap. My biggest concern is hearing of people in important positions, so self-important that they think their time is so valuable that they need not read the things they are paid the big bucks to read and instead on the summaries imagined for them with generative AI. The devil is in the detail. |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 09:27:48 @mttaggart i don’t want any. Its utterly useless to me |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 10:33:52 @mttaggart also in 2024! 🤷♂️ |
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Föderation EN So 22.12.2024 10:39:50 @mttaggart Is it possible to boost this post a million times!? |
