I have to admit that I've been surprised at the level of hate at AI LLMs.
There is finally a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education to self learn, anywhere , anytime. To get answers to questions, (even if sometimes wrong) , that they would otherwise never have access to
There is finally a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education to self learn, anywhere , anytime. To get answers to questions, (even if sometimes wrong) , that they would otherwise never have access to
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Nag. Sorry. I can't abide the pocket lining any more. You've been a better billionaire than most, but at the end if the day, it's all just a meal ticket for you. Gross.
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Of course there's the rich getting richer thing.
I have no problem with AI being used for where it can help. I DO have a problem with it being shoved at me in every program, ap, or interface.
AND mostly corps are just using it in place of humans because it's cheaper, not better.
My library has been around as long as I can remember.
Learning is about effort, not access. And "sometimes wrong" is a weird way to dismiss the major shortcoming of AI
Vehemently opposing AI, unfortunately, would not work and will only leave people behind.
What if instead we had human experts, who don’t make shit up, summarize and explain complex subjects? You could learn by reading or going to in-person lessons.
You know what’s useful after that? Searching for that and finding authoritative sources.
Maybe use some sort of engine for searching.
What delightfully fanciful magic.
LLMs are really useful for a lot of things - but not for what you're selling here.
What proponents of AI would have you believe vs. a more accurate dipiction.
However it is very very vulnerable. There's no electricity there's no
AI and one of these days the lights will go out and you have to pick up the pencil and a piece of paper. Total dependence on this machine technology is recipe for disaster.
AI is not a panacea and probably never will.
These are language models. There is one thing they’re good at, and that’s putting words on a page in a way that makes sense. They aren’t capable of understanding those answers so they can’t truly explain them. Therefore they cannot truly educate anyone.
Do you stop using money?
Fire is used to burn down peoples homes, do you stop using fire to cook? SMH
Didn't make me stop using money.
I've spent the last year building a tool to force content scrapers to pay for content. I'd love to get your feedback on it!
https://paynpoint.net
I also write about the issue at https://paynpoint.substack.com and https://medium.com/@timsylvester
I've spent the last year building a tool to force content scrapers to pay for access to content. You can put it on any website. It may not stop AI but at least it turns it into a source of revenue for creators.
https://paynpoint.net
He needs to read AI generated articles to see what shit AI generates.
The machines were supposed to work for us, not take away what makes us human.
Can't draw a brb with << side eyes
Can explain the turn nature of time.
I know that insurance companies use an AI, but this is the first time I've heard that it's a language model. An LLM would be comically ill-suited and EXPENSIVE for this task.
Why are you selling snake oil that kills the world? How much of a nut do you have invested in AI?
People dont naturally know to ask the right questions (critical thinking is a skill built in education), and there is a breadth of knowledge that’s easy to miss if you dabble. AI is not everything
Instead of making a program mimic a person, which on their own aren't very smart, we should have started small. A dog or something.
LLM's learn from what WE have posted, and we are fools.
It's like a cyber truck. Ugly and mostly worthless.
Your take on net neutrality was awful because it was based on wrong information. Please listen to people who know better.
People are scared, Mark. We don't have the cushion you do. Most of us are one medical emergency away from homelessness.
you will have seen your sales slowly diminishing because medicine companies are buying AI tracks instead of paying a licensing fee to media companies and real artists
https://bsky.app/profile/democrats4good.bsky.social/post/3lifyxormic2j
1) per below, they don't age gracefully
2) when they are trained on bad data (misinformation and/or bot-generated spam) which is ever increasing, what happens? GIGO applies
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/older-ai-models-show-signs-of-cognitive-decline-study-shows
by definition of architecture
LLMs are ok for "summarizing" but not generalizing. It is extremely context dependent. Eg, placing a . in the wrong place in a calculator.
It's utility is highly variable.
They can't reason and abstract well though — things like CGPT are only good for surface-level summarizing and minor, routine task automation.
They can think/quant but can't reason/qual. They can perform a simulacrum of that — what CGPT purports to do — but anything even approaching reasoning is still likely decades out. Current-gen hardware can't reach it.
All of those arguments are false.
Not knowing how to properly or ethically use an LLM doesn't make the tool bad, and there are a plethora of resources for folks to learn.
Students using AI tools to assist with learning probably need interventions that your institution isn't providing.
It's lazy to assume they're just lazy.
No, that's how the human brain works and it is VERY well documented by now. Brain rot is a thing.
It's not the tool that's the problem. I don't know how else to make my point clear when your bias against it renders you unable to understand.
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported
Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a
Survey of Knowledge Workers
https://advait.org/files/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
Smoking used to be good for you, you know? 😜
Again, being histrionic and hyperbolic is a choice.
-piracy
-doing the job of qualified professionals, with no accountability.
-loss of credibility
Etc.
It’s not hate it’s just trying to see all sides
And being very skeptical of Silicon Valley tech bros
A lot of folks who *aren't rich and have no interest in being rich* loathe ai.
Read the room.
People are hesitant to introduce napalm to what is already a gasoline fire
And the purveyors of AI LLMs have shown themselves pretty morally bankrupt—risking society’s future for a buck.
It’s not the tech, it’s the lack of ethics.
This is already available to “self-learners.”
Businesses aren’t rushing into the AI race because they think it will help people. They think it will help them cut staff, period.
The race towards AI is about $$$, not some flowery bullshit techno utopia drivel.
I'm not surprised and kinda surprised you are. Do you not remember the hate leveled at word processors? At the Internet?
We've been doing this dance likely since the wheel was invented and Lifty McLifterson was going to be out of a job.
The responses are not always correct. Far too often they are a collection of musings, some not even close to correct.
I'm not buying what you're selling.
I mean, if you care to see how AI is evolving. If not 🤷
Also there are multiple AI models.
It is, at scale, polluting and compromising the systems of knowledge acquisition - from libraries to books to teaching - as well as it's own input pool.
Bad shit
If we applied the same logic to past innovations, every photographer would have “stolen” from painters, every digital artist from traditional ones.
People who rely on AI for information are wading in potentially dangerous misinformation and letting their own brains atrophy.
I believe this is what you are describing.
I’m surprised you’re surprised.
AI isn’t teaching you anything
We would have a scientific and economic renaissance that AI couldn’t come close to touching.
That scares these ppl
Deepseek showed people that you don't NEED huge companies, with endless budgets, to—
WorldCAT with AI tracking *alone* would drastically improve ILL efficiency in libraries. Automated barcoding and shipping would cut time down for small staffs.
Are there potential downsides — yes. But there's downsides to everything, including "let's hold out for perfect solutions."
What AI is is an active attempt to deskill people in order to suppress wages.
This is ultimately just a race to the bottom.
This whole AI will help the poor thing is a lie.
Of which this country is in dire need of.
It gets ugly.
#CAnnibalizeTheeOnePercent
AI isn’t the cause of chaos; it’s a tool. Look at the already existing hellscape the US is now in without it.
AI is a tool for both good and for rapid enshittification.
Otherwise, just it could be a hallucination -- but that's exactly what Rs do right now. They're all about hallucination.
Like all things, pick a quality product. Not a cut-rate one -- like Google's.
LLMs are next-generation Wikipedia.
And if you're going to the public library to ask for help debugging your Python code, I pity your local librarian.
For someone who just wants a job and not some sort of deeper understanding, LLMs are much more useful than books
https://www.legaldive.com/news/chatgpt-fake-legal-cases-generative-ai-hallucinations/651557/
My reaction to Archer's OP:
And so you need to debug things. Except that you don't have the skill for that.
Sometimes it gives shit that doesn’t work at all. But most of the times it can save me an hour or so of work
Managers that plan otherwise will swallow a lot of disaster and then get fired.
The core part of what people are angry about is actually with Managers (re Elon), not AI, making poor decisions that destroy people's lives.
That part is up to you
My point is that the person's comparison stands quite soundly.
I promise you it doesn’t work that way, an LLM will just frustrate you, and learning’s more fun anyway
LLM AI cannot be relied upon to do either of those things.
And don't get annoyed when you ask the same thing in 3 different dumb ways
And will QUICKLY build you a custom product comparison chart, cake recipe or vacation itinerary
try one out
Public libraries are amazing, but they are not a panacea, and you need both.
Said as someone who uses LLMs & goes to the library down the block to teach kids on how AI (beyond LLMs) works.
Because their future depends on understanding the math not hype
Glass houses.
AI or not, compute will scale with humanity, if nothing changed from say 2014, we would still need to build and use large amounts of energy for compute.
It’s why we need to solve how to scale cleanly. But that’s beyond tech alone.
For something there's no actual demand for.
Imagine if AI was publicly owned, like libraries or utilities.
People can't seem to separate the problems of excess productivity, which has been going on for decades, and this shiny object that quite prominently raises the issue.
Also why it’s best use is at a tool, automating the tedious stuff, as opposed to an A-Z solution.
On art, you’ve seen no disagreement from me. I’d rather see it in a digital artists’ toolset than have it replace that digital artist
Powering the internet in general uses more energy than you want to admit. Streaming video in particular is a MASSIVE power suck.
Start up the 50 year old technology.
What could go wrong?
But the fact that AI is a large market does not mean that individual AI actions are nearly as wasteful as people act. You can run pretty good LLMs locally on a laptop.
AI can't "know" things like we do; it analyzes text to predict the response you want for the question you ask. Huge difference.
Got another you want to try?
https://bsky.app/profile/rabblerous.bsky.social/post/3lcxiotehsk2q
That wasn't the only potentially fatal plant included in the book.
I believe that people anchored their LLM knowledge on models from years ago and mistakenly believe that current models have the same issues.
https://x.com/edzitron/status/1823496286387212495
That's simply misusing the language model not attached to any kind of case database. If I'm asking you to show me that boats don't float, and you show me a sinking car, it doesn't demonstrate what you think it does.
AI doesn't add *anything* to the human acquisition of knowledge - *least* of all _access_!
Did you forget we dont have billions and need food and roofs over heads?
It doesnt benefit the average person if it puts us on the street. It benefits ppl like you.
We all fall together.
Tech mirrors structures already there, it doesn't create them.
You stuck in the past, and the past led us to Trump.
#6'Elon
Try looking outside your bubble, I for one, live in Denmark and Asia is eating up Ai like it is the next level of the economy.
#6'Elon
In my book Cosmic Bonds, which takes place 20-30 years in the future, Ai is integrated into every aspect of life.
#6'Elon
LLMs effectively taught computers to be bad at math.
COMPUTERS UNLEARNED MATH. The function they were literally invented and named for.
LLMs produce a sequence of words in a specific order. They're no more profound than an interesting river in Minecraft.
Corporations claim words and art as theirs, but everything exists because of humanity as a whole.
#6'Elon
#6'Elon
#6'Elon
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65452940
1. Most people’s 1st exposure is via artificial art, so artists hate it.
2. Anyone who relies on being a specialist hates it.
3. It’s being pushed by the guys behind the end of public amenities, so the Left hate it.
4. Data centres used have city-level electric needs, so Greens hate it.
Please sit this out. You’re rich, not smart.
Also - it's going to make us stupid and less human. As a tool for some sorts of research it is going to be helpful, but mostly, it's going to make our lives less good.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf?ref=404media.co
My kid had some homework on quadratic equations. Hand written work and all, I uploaded a picture to Claude. It correctly identified every question, all handwritten work, checked the work and answers correctly.
I dreamed about this stuff when I was a kid.
https://bsky.app/profile/rabblerous.bsky.social/post/3lcxiotehsk2q
Yes, it's going to kill us.
For many years, you could and may continue to go into any organic food store, like Sprouts or Whole Foods, & find many "natural remedies" books with almost the exact same content with the same level of detail.
Or buy a copy of Nexus.
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/castor-bean-ricinus-communis/#:~:text=The%20seeds%20are%20extremely%20poisonous,or%20meal%20from%20the%20seeds.
But that place is not everywhere, all the time, all at once and right this minute. Folks need a choice here… where it feels right, where it works right and where they want it. Not jammed down our throats as the end all, be all. From “job creators”. Choice.
I can't speak much for Europe or South America.
https://bsky.app/profile/symbo1ics.bsky.social/post/3kjgonqrpjl2x
https://bsky.app/profile/bluberrymorning.bsky.social/post/3l3lq6pquwx2o
But some people will try to exploit it. Don’t be those people.
Aren't you supposed to be a computer guy? What the fuck man
Also probably 1 book, if we’re being honest.
My passion is and always was history... and yeah, here books are essential. Though I can't admit talking to "AI Charlemagne" was funny. But that was recreation and not very long lasting.
With AI, you've got a grudge,
You whine about some code that's slouch,
But you're just mad 'cause you can't budge.
It's limitless.
In 10 years, probably not, if the AI guys win. Only how to write AI prompts.
Not how to create solutions, art, or improve life using the information from a book and the matter between your ears.
Sad, small new world.
I do use it from time to time but try to check and validate what it's saying, but people are less and less likely to check assuming it's gospel (like we often do with news reports, surveys etc)
We are in this mess thanks to the flaws of social media and modern manipulations social media spreads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3BwOAxQsa0