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   starkrg@myside-yourside.net's status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 00:02:55 JST StarkRG

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I think it could be argued that generative AI has made lists of fictional magic potions for TTRPGs better. Maybe lists of fictional places as well? That's probably about it, though, and it's still kinda ripping off authors.

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     Make Nazis Dead Again (stg@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 01:18:28 JST Make Nazis Dead Again

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Lisa Melton

     @thomasfuchs @lisamelton Agree with the rest of the list, and I’m very very very much an AI pessimist, but I’m going to quibble a bit with Customer Support replies. What is being used currently is a dressed up form of “if -> then” statements practically hard coded into the support flows. I’m not really kidding. I’ve set up several of these systems from different companies.

     Context recognition and understanding is going to be *massive* when it’s properly applied to customer support. BUT you can’t just replace humans; the best approach is to use AI to collect context and provide information to the person on the other end fixing the problem, suggest documented solutions/FAQs, etc.

     That being said, having worked in support for so long, the vast majority of support inquiries could have been google searches.

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     MylesRyden (mylesryden@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 01:31:28 JST MylesRyden

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Never was a technology so misnamed as "AI." It is a giant, somewhat more sophisticated autocorrect, guessing the next word to be used.

     If you want to know the current state of "AI," totally trust your autocorrect to text your significant other and/or your boss. Or maybe your mom.

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     MylesRyden (mylesryden@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 01:46:07 JST MylesRyden

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Agreed.

     But to be somewhat fair (which not all techbros deserve) I do think that the original impulse is not all bad. For example, much of this research started out to see if human thought could actually be modeled because such a model would be useful for brain science.

     Of course, we are nowhere near modelling human thought processes -- and low and behold this thing we have instead can be used to make money! And the whole project goes off the rails.

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     Keith (karmajunkie) (kbg@atx.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 01:55:21 JST Keith (karmajunkie)

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs you can add "generating bedtime stories for me to read to my daughter" too the list of positives... Definitely better than what I was coming up with on my own.

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     Benjamin (blindcoder@toot.berlin)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 01:56:03 JST Benjamin

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs The amount of pornographic images on my hard disk that I'm too embarrassed to explain to an actual human has certainly improved.

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     craftycat (craftycat@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 02:19:19 JST craftycat

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Any copywriter on fiver and similar services who suddenly CAN warrant writing articles for the $5/hr usually offered certainly disagrees 😎

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     Enema Cowboy (enema_cowboy@dotnet.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 04:54:43 JST Enema Cowboy

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

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     Phi Φ (sci_phi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 04:58:17 JST Phi Φ

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs closed captions

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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 06:40:42 JST 

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     @thomasfuchs ✅ Non-exhaustive list of things at "AI" generated text has made better:
     - ERP
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     FrailLeaf (frailleaf@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 06:43:36 JST FrailLeaf

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     @mint @thomasfuchs real
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     cvnt (cvnt@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 06:44:57 JST cvnt

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     @mint @thomasfuchs
     
     "AI made search results bad" is Wikipedia-Editor tier pointing fingers. "It's not that we've weaponized information search for a color revolution, the bogeyman did it."
     
     Death to OP.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 06:48:59 JST 

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     • cvnt
     @cvnt @thomasfuchs Search results for 90% of non-niche topics were shit long before GPT came out. Blame pajeets aching for quick buck and search engines themselves by not making better algorithms despite having trillions in revenue.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 06:53:38 JST 

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     • cvnt
     @cvnt @thomasfuchs Now the most performant models being SaaSS under lock and key, and lobotomized to prevent wrongthink on top of that, is a much larger issue than wordcels seething over being replaced with an Nvidia card.
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     cvnt (cvnt@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 06:54:17 JST cvnt

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     @mint @thomasfuchs
     
     They're not just inept, they're malicious half the time. Searching "forbidden phrases" on Google to get gently corrected by Right-Think :trademark: is basically a sport.
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     cvnt (cvnt@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 06:54:24 JST cvnt

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     • cvnt
     @mint @thomasfuchs
     
     > "AI did this?"
     
     No, just retarded communist niggers.
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     Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua: (ncrav@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 08:30:50 JST Nuno & Lua :DsaprvingLua:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     Positives:

     - teaching junior devs to read the documentation after shooting themselves on the foot
     - have it write nonsense to troll trust fund bros
     - making people stop using google since their ranking is so shitty it's putting bad generated results above everything else
     - getting copywriting with the exact quality and coherence that greedy corps want to pay for

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     The Shell of a Fish Finger (fishfinger@kinky.business)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 09:32:28 JST The Shell of a Fish Finger

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Harmony

     @thomasfuchs @harmonycorrupted

     Exam questions! ‘Cos after about a year of seeing students asking ChatGPT instead of going to the library I’m sick of it and they can correct its mistakes for a test instead. AI is great for revenge!

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     JuniperJump (juniperjump@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 10:48:33 JST JuniperJump

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     • Bobby Bare Root

     @copedog @thomasfuchs This appeared recently for me in a Google search! I as so horrified I screenshot it! Those words were indeed on the page under the heading, MYTHS!

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     Bobby Bare Root (copedog@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 10:48:34 JST Bobby Bare Root

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I swear to God I was looking for tips on how to cook fish in the microwave and the top result began "Preheat microwave to 350 degrees"

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     Jeff Sikes (box464@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 23:08:02 JST Jeff Sikes

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Just yesterday I ran across a new addition to the By my Eyes app, which provides users a choice of asking a real person or an AI for assistance in describing what’s in front of the visually impaired person. Pretty cool!

     https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXtWvheo-2iczzmEtVwu5awLXhzVS_JPY?feature=shared