: What's funny about "AI" is that the things many of us said would happen but were told we were dumb, didn't know everything/anything, weren't "seeing the big picture", were Luddites, etc. are the things that've happened and continue to happen, to the point that actual AI experts, not fans of AI, are warning of it- well, at least telling people of "potential curves in the road ahead".
"AI" doesn't have a mind of its own and relies on input from other AI and from humans. Yeah, it's fast, but 🤷♂️?
@thedisasterautist It's horrible trying to write for clients with AI on the marrket. So many don't want content written or even aided by AI but they use these AI checkers that are inaccurate to check for it. I pointed out to one the other day that it was ironic that he was using AI to check for AI instead of just reading it to see what he thought about it.
@awnaves: Since the 1990s I've been told not unoften by people, including professionals, that "nobody writes like that" (referencing my writing) and that I used some kind of computer program to write or assist. That's until when/if they meet me in person, which is when they see that speaking to me in person IRL is just like reading what I write. Some of my IT friends in the late '80s and the '90s specifically pointed this out, as have academic and creative writing colleagues.
@thedisasterautist That's the thing too. AI checkers will flag for repetitive words, correct punctuation and gramnar, and uncommon usage. If you are writing SEO content, it's hard to pass. What are you supposed to do, write shitty copy so you pass AI checks? So, now you are put in a position of paying for a program created by the same checker saying you used AI to spin your content go appear more human. It's maddening.
@thedisasterautist I had a guy tell me that he had no other way of checking for AI content. I told him he could try reading it himself. 🤷♀️
@thedisasterautist I was given to understand the internet is ACTUALLY a series of tubes.
@ianthealy: Negative. The series of tubes is what carries the internet, and that is called the intarwebs.
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I and others haven't said the technology isn't and cannot be useful and even muy advantageous. We've said it has limits and that its developers, programmers, etc. and its fans are prone to overenthusiastic fantasizing and overselling, especially to investors and to politicians.
A computer is a filing cabinet with a phone line, and the internet is a vast warehouse of filing cabinets connected to one another. Both only do what they're told to do and way quickly. That's it.