drtcombs.bsky.social
Transport-Equity-Resilience PhD. Researching & teaching🚶♀️🚲 🚌 & 🛣️. Occasional outbursts about dogs, kids, Davidson hoops, & gardening. My opinions are mine.
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so they have zero respect for the craft (i.e., the careful choice of words so as to richly, robustly, and honestly present and contextualize the information contained in the writing), yet have zero desire to question the veracity of the product.
it's so naive.
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right???
plus, the summary is only going to be as good as the report itself. what if I write a shit report? the summary will also be shit. but the lazy non-reader will never know the report is shit because they couldn't be bothered to read it.
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The concept of a "singularity" isn't the extreme of enlightened super-intelligent consciousness the AI broligarchy promises - that's an infinitely improbable outlier. It's the reduction of absolutely everything to a single reeking blended shit-pile that becomes the only thing available.
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the 50 pages are readable. and every word CAREFULLY chosen to advance the meaning of the work. Reading those words is necessary to fully understanding the findings.
I can write the idiot's guide version if that's what you want, but you'll remain an idiot if that's all you ever read.
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why would I bother writing the 50 pages?
or hell, busting my ass to fund the study that allowed me to do the research that I then painstakingly completed and then delicatedly navigated through a complicated yet crucially important peer review process before coughing up $2k to get published?
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yes * 1000.
This reminds me of what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about the drivel generated by AI being, at best, 'mid.'
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the tech itself isn't necessarily bad. technology is just knowledge made tangible.
it's how we use it, abuse it, and force it on others with limited grasp on what it does or concern for its potential consequences that is problematic
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I'm not anti-technology. There are some things I do think an AI would be useful for. But much like its tech-bro-brother, AVs, AI is a half-baked technology being shoved down our throats, soaking up far more resources than it will ever save, with no regulatory guard rails in sight.
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100% ☝️
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The absolute ignorance and hubris of telling me that chatgpt is only a problem if I want it to agree with me
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I am not being dramatic when I say the proliferation and forced reliance on LLMs is an existential crisis for the development of new scientific knowledge and human creativity.
We are handing the entire pursuit of progress over to a probability model.
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Those same voices, as they seek to convince us LLMs are the solution to problems we never had, also seek to undermine our ability to fund our research. They seek to undermine the tools we use to do our reearch. And they seek to undermine our credibility when we present the results of our research.
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The status quo itself is created by those with the biggest, loudest, most convinced-they-are-righteous voices.
No coincidence that those are the same voices trying to convince us to use LLMs.
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yes, this is in fact my point.
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"ChatGPT agrees with you!" or "oh but ChatGPT says something different" is NOT the analysis you think it is. It's a slap in my face, and it's actively undermining the future of knowledge building.
the world is flat.
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Since the advent of chatgpt and its ilk, scholars like me have been forced to watch as people insist on running our painstakingly produced research through chatbots before deciding if they are willing to read, think about, and invest brain cells in understanding it....
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...the more they reinforce what's written down, and the harder it is for actual human knowledge-builders to advance any new information to the contrary.
Who would possibly have believed Copernicus in the age of ChatGPT???
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and the corrollary -- just because something is written down doesn't mean it's correct...even if it's popularly believed to be correct! Like 600 years ago when everyone just knew Earth was flat and the sun and planets revolve around it.
The more LLMs repeat what's currently written down...
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And they don't die when they sting. Those suckers DANCE.
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Don't mind me and this bag of frozen peas in my armpit
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Deleted my QT since I'm fairness I didn't read the article.
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here for the [future, maybe] linkedin blocklist feature
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promise?
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I guess it's time to give up that hope. Here's me, a full-grown if somewhat disheveled adult, next to the same truck.
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I think among many in the #BanCars crowd on other sites, it's almost a reflex. See pic of large truck, make small size jokes. Small child for scale because there's no banana handy, etc...
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yeah. It happened a lot when one of our pics (of a truck parked on a sidewalk on which said kid, then 6" shorter, was walking) went viral on the old site. I'm still randomly coming across memes and videos of it w/ jokes that make me legit nauseous.
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oh, it's a thing. a truly disgusting thing. body shaming and pedophilia all in one.
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(you may also know that I block people who use photos of my child to make penis jokes, so please don't)
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If you've been following me a while, you'll know that I've been measursing my kid's height against the grilles of pickup trucks parked in pedestrian spaces for 6 or 7 years. I've been ever hopeful that someday she'll be tall enough to be seen.
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omg I shot coffee out my nose
thank you
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Until we stop playing discrimination whackamole and just grant human dignity to all humans by default, we will have shit like this.
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yes, stop the eugenics
AND fix our backwards approach to waiting until an entire class of people have been screwed before trying to pass a bill to outlaw the particular form of screwage that's taken place
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@altnps.bsky.social pegged it at 12.1 million earlier today
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And Burnsville, NC!
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100%
I would pay for AI to put away my dishes and laundry so I can spend more time reading and writing.
But nooooooo. The AI they force on us is the kind that takes the joy out of life.