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I don't want anything your AI generates

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Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by nicbou »

SLHamlet wrote: post #61

Anytime someone sends me something generated by ChatGPT, I think about how AI expert Hilary Mason puts it: "By design, ChatGPT aspires to be the most mediocre web content you can imagine." https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/03/chatgpt-explained-hilary-m...

I sometimes need this. It’s nice to get an average of all mediocre content summed up as a bullet list sometimes.

Sometimes I want the average tourist guide, the average recipe or the average answer. Now I get it instantly without sifting through ad-infested shallow content. ChatGPT made it so much easier to be curious about new things. It’s a good trailhead for curiosity.

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by techno_tsar »

sfn42 wrote: post #197
rain_iwakura wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if you're joking about binge-ing but you have to be delusional to think that someone taping their favorite show on their own or waiting for it until it ends is nearly the same as dropping all episodes at the same time on principle for every show and only offering that as an option for a long time. building your whole UI around it and encouraging this behavior? The point about others jumping on the bandwa…

Man i really hate how people absolve themselves of responsibility like this. "It's not my fault I spent all weekend watching Netflix, it's their UI!" No, it isn't. I love when they release full seasons at a time. I can watch them at whatever pace I please. If some degenerate can't control themselves that's their problem. "But muh children" parent them. "But irresponsible parents" Netflix is probably the best case sce…

I don’t interpret this discussion as about absolving oneself of responsibility. To be fair, what people spend their weekends doing is none of my business.

But it is true that Netflix makes UI decisions that encourage binging. They are not evil for doing so, because honestly, there isn’t anything wrong with binging anyway, but it’s indicative of the logic that is going to be used when it comes to producing their own shows.

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by ragazzina »

geor9e wrote: post #185

"I don't like CGI" Same idea. What you actually don't like is bad CGI. Done well enough to be undetectable, you can never object to it.

Maybe the author does not like the idea of CGI in their movies?

> What you actually don't like is bad poop. Cooked well enough to be undetectable, you can never object to it.

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by Nemrod67 »

ragazzina wrote: post #203
geor9e wrote: post #185

"I don't like CGI" Same idea. What you actually don't like is bad CGI. Done well enough to be undetectable, you can never object to it.

Maybe the author does not like the idea of CGI in their movies? > What you actually don't like is bad poop. Cooked well enough to be undetectable, you can never object to it.

cue the reglementations about feces levels in food, you'd be surprised

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by tommymanstrom »

PheonixPharts wrote: post #64

I personally think AI will be it's most powerful not as some generated output, but as invisible glue that binds parts of a larger system. AI (specifically the LLM variety) should be performing small tasks via agents and then using structured output to allow those agents to pass information in a larger system. There, as an example, countless zero/few shot classification tasks that LLMs crush traditional ML at. You wan…

IPcenter by Amelia (former IPSoft) was like that, it could use Bayesian statistics on incoming events/alerts to determine where to route a ticket. This would only work after a few tickets, with roughly same content, being routed manually.

One issue with this was it learned that a particular database event would be routed to team_a after an incident. Next time similar tickets was raised, it would be routed to team_a incorrectly. This was an issue since events/alarms tend to look same for eg an application database and the organisations would route tickets to each application team first - not the centralized database team.

It had "virtual engineers" which could do investigation (collecting logs etc) and remediations (basically scripts) too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_(company)

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by sfn42 »

techno_tsar wrote: post #202
sfn42 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man i really hate how people absolve themselves of responsibility like this. "It's not my fault I spent all weekend watching Netflix, it's their UI!" No, it isn't. I love when they release full seasons at a time. I can watch them at whatever pace I please. If some degenerate can't control themselves that's their problem. "But muh children" parent them. "But irresponsible parents" Netflix is probably the best case sce…

I don’t interpret this discussion as about absolving oneself of responsibility. To be fair, what people spend their weekends doing is none of my business. But it is true that Netflix makes UI decisions that encourage binging. They are not evil for doing so, because honestly, there isn’t anything wrong with binging anyway, but it’s indicative of the logic that is going to be used when it comes to producing their own s…

You could say they encourage binging, you could say they have good UX. I don't really know what type of functionality were talking about here, I'm thinking things like automatically playing the next episode, skipping intros etc. To me that's just good design, it's exactly what I want the app to do.

And I don't really see how Netflix benefits from binging. It seems to me that Netflix is more like gyms - they want customers who pay but don't use the service. The more you watch the more you're costing Netflix. If you pay but never watch anything you're the perfect customer, they're collecting free money.

If you just watch a full show in a weekend and unsubscribe that's really not ideal for them.

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

Feels like "crypto" where if someone says "I am not interested", "I do not like it", or something to that effect then commenters suddenly appear suggesting that this is somehow unacceptable. Look at the top comment.

Like crypto, it seems some folks have bet on "AI", and are spooked by any hint of skepticism.

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by Gud »

nperez wrote: post #48
RolandFlicket wrote: post #28

My boss “writes” policies etc using ChatGPT. They’re generic, overly wordy and say nothing of original thought. I don’t read them and don’t care. When he sends me a link to them in MS Teams I always click the first auto suggested response Teams like “Looks great!” Machine v machine.

That's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.

Well at least that’s better than being QA’d by the AI.
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