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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:01:59 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   A writing hashtag I follow is having a conversation about "AI", and it's taking all my fucking strength of will not to wade in like a reply guy fact checking service.

   Some people are managing to be wrong in multiple directions at once.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:54:43 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

     @DarkestKale

     Yeah, I'm currently in the "unless you are paying me to provide opinion, examples and explanations about this stuff, I am certainly not going to volunteer any of that" camp.

     It's incredibly emotive, and I can see why, because the most prominent firms involved in its promotion have all the ethical standards and instinct for truth of a Tory party conference, but there's a fuck of a lot of magical thinking, misinformation and simple error floating around.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:54:44 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     @HauntedOwlbear it's just gonna be 'one of those' topics for a long, long while.

     I'm absolutely practising a 'nope, not answering THAT' methodology because people don't want to be (factually) right on this topic

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:18:31 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Lunar 🛸 ♾

     @lunarloony I'm still mildly surprised that a clutch of technically interesting but often fundamentally unreliable proofs of concept have somehow been packaged up and rolled out as business-to-business snake oil to solve largely non-existent problems.

     (I originally said I was amazed by this, but I've been through enough tech hype cycles to really not have that degree of surprise anymore.)

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     Lunar 🛸 ♾ (lunarloony@dosgame.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:18:33 JST Lunar 🛸 ♾

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     @HauntedOwlbear I'm struggling a bit with this because my manager, and at least one of the execs, at my workplace are going all-in on this so-called AI business. (My manager isn't yet aware that I disabled Copilot et al in Windows 11...!)