The usecases that most people see are the Firehose of Falsehood / Engine of Sockpuppet / Election Disinfo / Author & Artist Plagiarism uses, not the quiet, “arbitrary social media platform now has ~2% Toxic content down from ~18% 5 years ago” usecases - ThreadSky

skywitches.net • 38 days ago

The usecases that most people see are the Firehose of Falsehood / Engine of Sockpuppet / Election Disinfo / Author & Artist Plagiarism uses, not the quiet, “arbitrary social media platform now has ~2% Toxic content down from ~18% 5 years ago” usecases

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ckrss.bsky.social•38 days ago

You took both sides to the extreme to make your argument sound stronger, which ironically is what people tend to do when their argument is weak. What you said isn't even relevant to the post, which was a response to someone claiming there are no use cases.

ckrss.bsky.social•38 days ago

It's just a really inefficient way to discuss anything. Why not just make a normal straightforward argument?

conjurial.bsky.social•38 days ago

individual people are more consistent, but the most common argument sets, which I’d gloss as “this stuff doesn’t work” and “this will take my job,” are also contradictory

There are syntheses (“it’ll take my job and do it badly”) but not imo enough reckoning in discourse overall with that tension

skywitches.net•38 days ago

LLMs are marketed as thinking. They don’t think. That’s what’s meant by “this stuff doesn’t work” — they hallucinate factoids & confidently present them as correct.

It requires prior mastery in a subject for a human to spot when the AI is incorrect. Or extensive independent verification of results

skywitches.net•38 days ago

And people are understandably concerned that someone who doesn’t understand why Human Does Job will replace them with Technology That Guesses.

skywitches.net•38 days ago

My point is that there are use cases, but that public perception - by the nature of the thing - sees only the bad actors, not the use cases that are quietly improving some company’s ROI

skywitches.net•38 days ago

A lot - a *lot* - of people feel that a ToS clause in a user agreement they entered into a decade ago, which clause says something like “we can use your content forever throughout thr known universe for any reason”, doesn’t conscionably cover “to make a digital clone of you”

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