Frankly, with the garbage Microsoft is producing these days, and the rate at which the quality, for lack of a better word, is degenerating, I’m starting to consider if LLM slop might actually be less worse…

in the unable-to-reason-effectively sense

That’s all LLMs by definition.

They’re probabilistic text generators, not AI. They’re fundamentally incapable of reasoning in any way, shape or form.

They just take a text and produce the most probable word to follow it according to their training model, that’s all.

What Musk’s plan (using an LLM to regurgitate as much of its model as it can, expunging all references to Musk being a pedophile and whatnot from the resulting garbage, adding some racism and disinformation for good measure, and training a new model exclusively on that slop) will produce is a significantly more limited and prone to hallucinations model that occasionally spews racism and disinformation.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Not everyone hates life like you do

Work isn’t life.

It’s the opposite of life (no, death is just its absence).

hang out with co-workers all the time

Bonding over shared trauma and Stockholm syndrome is not a good basis for a relationship (though there’s probably no relationship other than you pestering them while they try to work).

Unions aren’t community.

They’re a necessary defence mechanism against capitalism.

So they ruin it for everyone else.

Sounds horrible, glad I have no intention of bringing a child into this torturous world.

Well, just from reading that I can assure you your coworkers don’t.

sense of community between you and your coworkers, which is a very real and normal thing

No it fucking ain’t.

Forcing people together doesn’t create community, it creates stress, and resentment, and burnout, and migraines.

“Workplace community.”

Biggest oxymoron I’ve ever seen since military intelligence.

ALSO miss the sense of community with my coworkers which I used to get from lunches together, sharing the train ride home, or just working side by side at our desks

Oh, you’re one of those fucking extroverts.

I can’t begin to imagine the extent to which your poor coworkers must have despised you while you constantly bothered them while they tried to work, or have a quick decompressing lunch, or disconnect after a long day of work during the train ride home, the poor bastards. As if work wasn’t bad enough by itself.

No we don’t. Work is work, not fucking community.

“if you put in the wrong figures, will the correct ones be output”

To be fair, an 1840 “computer” might be able to tell there was something wrong with the figures and ask about it or even correct them herself.

Babbage was being a bit obtuse there; people weren’t familiar with computing machines yet. Computer was a job, and computers were expected to be fairly intelligent.

In fact I’d say that if anything this question shows that the questioner understood enough about the new machine to realise it was not the same as they understood a computer to be, and lacked many of their abilities, and was just looking for Babbage to confirm their suspicions.

LLMs are also very good at convincing their users that they know what they are saying.

It’s what they’re really selected for. Looking accurate sells more than being accurate.

I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the people selling LLMs as AI have drunk their own kool-aid (of course most just care about the line going up, but still).

Seems quite easy to remember with a nice jingle, like the emergency number… 🎵0118 999 881 999 119 725🎶. 3🎵.

Had my first ones yesterday too.

I’ll use FreeTube if I have to, though I don’t quite like the UI, but cleaning the cache seems to have done the trick for now.

Revanced users are within a rounding error of the total users, surely?

Some of us use NewPipe. 🤷‍♂️

Good, good, there aren’t enough microplastics in the sea, must dissolve more.

I just found out the other day that items pinned to the taskbar are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. 🤦‍♂️

Microsoft is a sad parody of itself.

Hear me out, Eliza. It’ll be equally useless and for orders of magnitude less cost. And no one will mistakenly or fraudulently call it AI.

They add capabilities not replace.

They poison all repositories of knowledge with their useless slop.

They are plummeting us into a dark age which we are unlikely to survive.

Sure, it’s not the LLMs fault specifically, it’s the bastards who are selling them as sources of information instead of information-shaped slop, but they’re still being used to murder the future in the name of short term profits.

So, no, they’re not useless. They’re infinitely worse than that.

That’s all I want out of AI.

The ability to hurt my computer when it isn’t working properly.