I wonder if I could structure an entire talk about all the AI-isms that really bug me? People love it when you explain something they thought was funny/resonant is actually problematic, right? so... which ones bug you? - ThreadSky

thefordon.bsky.social • 14 days ago

I wonder if I could structure an entire talk about all the AI-isms that really bug me? People love it when you explain something they thought was funny/resonant is actually problematic, right?

so... which ones bug you?

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miraphorism.bsky.social•14 days ago

basically any anthropomorphizing

michaeljaylissner.com•14 days ago

My favorite was an immigration bot named Esperanza. Espera means both wait and hope in Spanish.

sglassmeyer.bsky.social•14 days ago

Technology one in general "So easy your mom could do it!" Or Grandma. It's never Dad or Grandpa.

thefordon.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yuck. I think giving all the assistants female names is kinda related too. (Until the assistants got more powerful, and then they started getting male names. Weird)

sglassmeyer.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh yeah…massive peev of mine

michaeljaylissner.com•14 days ago

How about the word “agentic”? I want it gone from this world.

thefordon.bsky.social•14 days ago

oof yes. I finally put my head down and tried to figure out what people meant when they say "agents" and they could mean at least four different things, most of which are not new.

michaeljaylissner.com•14 days ago

Yeaaaahhh, that too.

thefordon.bsky.social•14 days ago

At the top of my list: "AI won’t replace lawyers — but lawyers who use AI will replace those who don’t." I don't like it because I think it elides that there *will* be job losses and employee contractions as people figure out what AI can do.

weener.bsky.social•14 days ago

I had my first professional interaction with a chat gpt-created legal argument yesterday. (Against my will) It sounded coherent, until you consider the actual holding of any of the cases cited. Not worried yet anyway!

mikejohnson.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yes. Tangentially.... is anyone (and I probably mean a non-ai-using human) checking whether lawyers who use AI are actually better than ones who dont (if there are any left)? Wondering if those with more money than sense get to hire the non-ai-using/real lawyers...

thefordon.bsky.social•14 days ago

Some are trying! This is the best I've seen (randomly controlled trial, comparing law students using AI vs. law students not using AI). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5162111

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