Id rather have some schmuck on the internet tell me what to think
I’d much rather be sitting in a cuck chair directing a robot to fuck somebody I have no interest in fucking myself.
Having no interest in thinking is kinda sad
Being unable to comprehend what you read and projecting that inability to comprehend outside of your biases is kinda sad
At least you recognize your own failings, that's the first step to improving!
Things are sad... let him huff glue, hater.
I just use DDG image search. Started drawing a bit recently and use online images as a starting point sometimes.
Planning on carving a board game on a wooden board, same rules as the game of Ur but possibly going with a different theme for decorating the board. Anglo-Saxon runes, axes and round shields. Been drawing them on paper as a planning stage and to practice as I would draw the outline on wood before carving it.
Gonna copy pasta one of my previous comments because it's relevant again:
I’m going to argue that how you use the lying machine determines if it’s slop, not if you use it.
“Generate a character profile for Alexander the blacksmith.” Slop.
“Ask me questions about Alexander the blacksmith so I can further develop his character.” Not slop.
“Summarize everything I explained about Alexander the blacksmith in the format of a wiki article.” Could be slop, might not be, depends on how diligent you were about not letting the lying machine have creative control. Needs to be reviewed for accuracy of course.
And for the record, I was a DM for years before generative ai was a thing. Running a campaign is ton of work, even with shortcuts. Don’t insult your DM like this.
You will not survive the winter.
Slop is slop no matter how you use it.
I’m going to argue that how you use the lying machine determines if it’s slop, not if you use it
Which is ironic of Lemmy to agree with OP because it is also here in Lemmy, where i learned about making the correct prompt to get the best out of AI!
There should be a way to acknowledge two things being true at the same time, but that way was never discovered on Lemmy.
"AI is mostly bad" and "AI can be useful at times" are both true statements. You sacrifice nothing by acknowledging both, and thinking you have to pick between the two is, ironically, mentally lazy af.
Most people agree that there are legitimate applications for LLM technology, like in the medical field. This comes up every single thread.
Then you have trillions of dollars of investment on the promise of eroding worker power, and letting capital enunciate itself without labour. That's what it's essentially all for.
The "legitimate" uses of the technology are not even a passing concern for investors except insofar as they can point to it to excuse their grift.
What is the legitimate use for LLMs in the medical field?
Like medical research, discovering drugs, folding proteins. There's also evidence they can be used to help analyse x-rays.
LLMs don't do those things. Do you know what an LLM is?
Rightrightright, I mean they can help with that stuff by churning though large sets of data or by statistical analysis to look for early signs of cancer, etc.
I'm not a researcher and I don't use them myself, but I know a thing or two about how LLMs work. Could be you could school me though if you know a lot.
I'm just saying the models used in medical imaging and protein folding, to use your examples, are not LLMs, but very different dedicated medical imaging models or protein folding models. Still falls under the overarching umbrella of AI/ML, but not really any more relevant to language models. LLMs also aren't a very relevant tool for big data or statistical analysis. Even with an agent harness, they could be used to write scripts that a human could also write, but couldn't directly do any sort of reliable statistical analysis.
Oh OK I wasn't aware of that. Actually I wondered as I was writing my comment how an LLM would compare to more tightly fitted model.
Well there goes my one example. Is there anything they're legitimately good for? I'll admit they seem good at finding "fuzzy" connections, and their text and image generation capabilities are impressive even if they aren't my cup of tea—mostly because of the externalities.
They're good for coding simple things for yourself if you don't want to learn to code or spend hours making something you will use once. Kinda like fast food.
You could argue I can learn to cook better and spend the time to do so. But I don't always want to and fast food is good enough. Same with llm. I can ask it to make me a Web app that does X and have it in seconds. All the usual worries about bugs and security don't apply as strongly to an app I make for just me that does just one thing.
Like say I'm at a takeaway shop with multiple people and the only menu is the board behind the counter. I take a couple photos, send them to the llm and say make me a menu app that I can add and remove items and it tracks the price. I will have it in under a minute and we can stop trying to read the board and block the counter and have the cashier patiently staring at us while we browse it in our own time and know exactly what the total will be.
Now you can quibble over whether that's "genuinely useful" or not. But it is to me. And I make tons of these simple one use apps for all kinds of things. And even if I was the best coder on earth, it still wouldn't be practical to hand make the same thing on the fly. Also hyper specific Firefox add-ons that don't exist because they're too specific to me and I didn't want to learn to make Firefox add-ons just to have them.
Even on the larger end, I wanted a lucid dream journal app and at the time the ones on the play store largely pay walled the best features and even pay walled exporting your journal. I didn't like that. So I had llm make me a basic one with the features I wanted, everything stored as txt files with export/import and ability to back up to drop box by oauth into a dedicated folder that can't touch the rest of my Dropbox. Even if llm disappeared and the app broke and I couldn't fix it I still have my entire journal as plain text.
So yeah. I find it useful. Because the alternative isn't me learning to code. It's these things not existing.
"Asbestos is extremely toxic" and "asbestos can be useful and irreplacable at times" are both true. So are "lead is poisonous" and "tetraetillead is an effective anti-knocking agent, lead in solder stops tin whiskers from forming, and lead paint is pretty".
Also that's how racism got normalized again, after getting closer to putting it back into the cemetery of history. And so is every LGBTQ+-phobia you can name. Or even better: the tobacco industry, the alcohol industry, and the gambling industry all promote "responsible use" of their products.
I think LLM is more like weed though, if we are making an apt metaphor.
MJ is useful in many ways, has medically recognized therapeutic benefits, is fun recreationally. But, it is unadvised to habitually use it all day, and can be harmful if you do.
For both LLMs and marijuana it's not the use of it that is bad, because there are positives, it's the over use and abuse of it.
I didn't go through 8 years of grueling computer science and engineering education to ask an AI to do my fucking job.
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