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minimaxir.bsky.social • 56 days ago

Case in point, the replies to this extremely neutral question: https://bsky.app/profile/hankgreen.bsky.social/post/3lnjohdrwf22j

Reposted from Hank Green

There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.

I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.

Thoughts?

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minimaxir.bsky.social•54 days ago

Day 2 for "nuance on AI discourse is dead on Bluesky" https://bsky.app/profile/eugenevinitsky.bsky.social/post/3lnpthllhg22e

minimaxir.bsky.social•54 days ago

to be clear, it is a flawed analogy but only one of the replies/QTs note the root cause that this issue is due to LLM providers encouraging people to use it incorrectly, while the rest of the responses are "AI bad" https://bsky.app/profile/dancow.bsky.social/post/3lnqgk5qpik2h

caylen.bsky.social•54 days ago

yeah, i dunked because it was a really stupid argument to make coupled with a wild miss on why people have problems with it

if you want to make people think AI isn't bad, you have to solve the problems the people have, not explain to them their problems aren't valid. preaching never works on cynics

minimaxir.bsky.social•54 days ago

fwiw this is fair nuance https://bsky.app/profile/caylen.bsky.social/post/3lnql4o5yyk22

caylen.bsky.social•54 days ago

yeah. I wish there was a way to have a conversation with people full on disdainful of the tech without having to unpack the baggage a bunch of rich shitheads bundled together with it, but even the people not trying to exploit with it aren’t making great arguments

rcpinto.bsky.social•54 days ago

Wow, those comments are a gold mine for my anti-ai block list
Bsky provides us with all we need to have a good experience.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:obor2bqaqi3s7ctohnje63o2/lists/3l37pb4l3vb2h

leewardmister.bsky.social•54 days ago

The level of AI discourse in this place honestly blows my mind. "It's entirely evil! But also completely useless!" Dragging me back to the other place.

minimaxir.bsky.social•56 days ago

That particular post has apparently broken containment and the replies/QT-dunkings have become even worse.

I may have to seriously reconsider sharing my AI blog posts on Bluesky.

blackholefun.bsky.social•56 days ago

AI and ML are useful for a great, great many things. People just lob often factually ignorant anger bombs, despite the fact those of us who know a lot about it and/or have to work with it a lot are probably the same people who argued for major regulation before others even knew what an LLM was.

blackholefun.bsky.social•56 days ago

Yeah, I don't discuss AI here very often. It's genuinely not worth the types of totalitarian replies that come back, as if people are funneling all their resentment against billions into a broadside against a random person.

ajohannes.bsky.social•56 days ago

I was about to yell no on your first post, until I read the comments on the other thread. Anyway, works better for some other people, with different kind of followers. It's a bummer you can't choose the ones you have. If only you could post under separate topics... you'd soon have another reddit

lasunshine.bsky.social•56 days ago

What people see is something else that’s trying to take their job. That’s it. No more, no less. I know that shitty summary AI writes on top of a news story is half wrong and I’m going to have to go in there and do it myself, but a bean counter who doesn’t read our paper only sees one more job gone.

rjtavares.bsky.social•56 days ago

I think it's important to keep talking about it. Don't give up.

aivisb.bsky.social•56 days ago

Dunking is not a special phenomenon on Bluesky - it is on all social networks.

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