I’'m curious about the strong negative feelings towards AI and LLMs. While I don’t defend them, I see their usefulness, especially in coding. Is the backlash due to media narratives about AI replacing software engineers? Or is it the theft of training material without attribution? I want to understand why this topic evokes such emotion and why discussions often focus on negativity rather than control, safety, or advancements.
On top of everything else people mentioned, it’s so profoundly stupid to me that AI is being pushed to take my summary of a message and turn it into an email, only for AI to then take those emails and spit out a summary again.
At that point just let me ditch the formality and send over the summary in the first place.
But more generally, I don’t have an issue with “AI” just generative AI. And I have a huge issue with it being touted as this Oracle of knowledge when it isn’t. It’s dangerous to view it that way. Right now we’re “okay” at differentiating real information from hallucinations, but so many people aren’t and it will just get worse as people get complacent and AI gets better at hiding.
Part of this is the natural evolution of techology and I’m sure the situation will improve, but it’s being pushed so hard in the meantime and making the problem worse.
The first Chat GPT models were kept private for being too dangerous, and they weren’t even as “good” as the modern ones. I wish we could go back to those days.
A tangent a little bit but so much this. Why haven’t we normalized using fewer words already?
Why do we keep writing (some blogs and all of content marketing) whole screens of text to convey just a sentence of real content?
Why do we keep the useless hello and regards instead of just directly getting to the points already?