I've reached a point where I think I'm going to follow @totallydonna.kitrocha.com's new rule and if I see someone discussing/admitting to using GenAI I am just going to block them. We need to get this train back on the tracks b/c there are so many useful things technology can be doing but NOT THIS. - ThreadSky

mostlybree.kitrocha.com • 21 days ago

I've reached a point where I think I'm going to follow @totallydonna.kitrocha.com's new rule and if I see someone discussing/admitting to using GenAI I am just going to block them.

We need to get this train back on the tracks b/c there are so many useful things technology can be doing but NOT THIS.

Reposted from Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone

Saw something this weekend about accepting that authors will write with AI. No. Don’t accept it, don’t forgive them.

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nonzerosumjames.bsky.social•21 days ago

What I don't get is, don't people writing with AI realise that everyone else also has access to AI, if we want AI's opinion we can literally just ask it, and even have a back and forth. Reading someone's writing or enjoying someone's art means connecting with that person, why give that up?

alexanderesmith.com•21 days ago

First, stop calling them AI. They're not intelligent. Intelligence requires understanding. They don't understand anything.

Second, LLMs don't have opinions. See first point.

Third, you can't have a "back and forth". You extend a prompt and it gives you more text. Stop personifying these things.

nonzerosumjames.bsky.social•21 days ago

Woah, steady on there. I think you may have, just slightly, completely missed my point.

But, LLMs are AI, they have the ability to process info, combine it with pre-existing frameworks and generate novel answers. They don't have sentience, obviously, or unhinged emotional reactions... thankfully.

alexanderesmith.com•21 days ago

My interpretation of your initial post was, roughly:

"Why bother publishing if you're going to use a ghostwriter? Don't you know other people could just hire them to write more of the same?"

and

"LLMs are capable of forming opinions and engaging in discourse."

Is this incorrect?

nonzerosumjames.bsky.social•21 days ago

If you'd like my perspective roughly around this issue https://nonzerosum.games/crappydrawings.html

alexanderesmith.com•21 days ago

I don't agree with the author of this article, but can't fully unpack it in 300 character chunks.

Short version: People aren't concerned about AI stealing some magical property of creation. They're appalled that they're being replaced with regurgitation of their own work, sold as "new and improved"

nonzerosumjames.bsky.social•21 days ago

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com sums that up nicely

"... capable of forming opinions and engaging in discourse."

An issue with stipulating that technically LLMs don't "form opinions" or "engage in discourse", is that it assumes that humans are performing some additional magic when we do these activities.

alexanderesmith.com•21 days ago

Oh, don't get me wrong; I don't - by /any/ means - think that human thought is special, or outside the realm of technological reproduction. I just know a lot about how LLMs work, and they're not capable of the sorts of things that people think are prerequisites for generating blocks of text.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•21 days ago

And hey, I was intrigued by it in the early days. But once I understood the full extend of IP abuse involved, that was the end of it.

Professional courtesy, man. I don't even care if I DID have a use for it--I won't do that to other artists.

legallyhea.bsky.social•21 days ago

There is soooo much gen AI created imagery floating around on the Romancelandia feed. It's so disappointing.

lionthroat.bsky.social•21 days ago

yep. i have a niche accessibility use case related to documented memory problems, but I just… don’t.

and I don’t know that it would ultimately help or serve as a maladaptive crutch—bc it’s very possible for me to build better documentation of things important to me. & accept that I forget the rest

herebedragonsss.bsky.social•21 days ago

It's crazy to me as a tech worker that AI is evangelized so heavily, but the use cases boil down to cutting corners. Outside of accessibility and research, I see it saving time but at the cost of quality. You have to either spend time fixing the quality issues OR accept mediocracy. I feel like I'm

herebedragonsss.bsky.social•21 days ago

really shooting myself in the foot professionally by not leaning in, but ethics aside I genuinely feel like it doesn't offer that much value. I feel like everyone is pretending it's the greatest thing ever to give the appearance of being forward thinking... But we're all just fooling ourselves?

herebedragonsss.bsky.social•21 days ago

I don't know, I'm probably just terrible at prompting, but it gives me the ick. Nvidia losing 600 billion in stock value in a single day over Deepseek makes me feel like the industry is hot air and posturing.

dystopos.bsky.social•21 days ago

Just today “Gemini” assembled a pile of word garbage and plastered it over more than half of the page that should have been showing me search results from the actual internet instead of its internally-constructed fever dreams. I tried to disable it, but I’d already disabled everything I could.

dystopos.bsky.social•21 days ago

Even the “how do I remove Gemini results from searches” answers are polluted with AI-generated gobbledygook that has no relationship to actual things one can accomplish.

dystopos.bsky.social•21 days ago

(Sorry for inserting all that mostly-unrelated griping but I am piqued.)

siansonea.bsky.social•21 days ago

This is how I feel about AutoTune. The difference is I can always hear AutoTune, in fact when it's used I can ONLY hear AutoTune. AutoTune isn't AI obviously, it just sounds fake.

I don't know that I would always spot AI in writing as easily, and that's depressing. 😒

nailinthecoffee.bsky.social•21 days ago

I have this policy everywhere on social media. It's really hard on Pinterest-- all the food bloggers use AI for their food pictures now instead of taking them themselves. It's so lazy and makes me immediately distrustful of your recipe/product.

grrlintersect.bsky.social•21 days ago

This is mostly where I am in all areas with the exception of some of the accessibility stuff and that is mostly because as shit as AI is at most of the accessibility stuff it is also for a lot of people the only access they have to things like image descriptions.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•21 days ago

I mean accessibility is one area we should be focusing on harder! So much potential!

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