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by gepardi 717 days ago
Why is this author so mad?
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Because if they posted any sort of reasonable article it wouldn't get traction (including being posted here).
People are inherently trusting LLMs without even remotely understanding them.
Because AI bullshit is ruining everything we've ever loved?
Exactly! This is lunacy.
Id argue ai accelerates bullshit slingers output disproportionately to genuine creators so theyre flooding the space - but people are the problem not ai (yet)
Wrong side of the bed for sure
probably because they stumbled upon yet another “AI” blog post that is a complete waste of time.

I’d be annoyed too. At least this guys angry blog post is somewhat educational - reminding us of biases and how NOT to use LLM’s.

all this being said, time to go outside and touch some grass. Get off the computer for a bit.

I can't speak for them, obviously, but, argh, this AI bullshit is just getting so tedious. Like, the methodology described in the article is just _nonsense_.

> "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"

Like, people have known this doesn't work since literally the First Industrial Revolution. And yet still we try asking the magic oracle to unbias our data.