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   Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 02:31:12 JST Simon Willison

   I confess to finding it it a little frustrating when I'm accused of being an "LLM shill" or "breathlessly proselytizing" while my ai+ethics tag has 121 posts and counting https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai+ethics/

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 02:31:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @simon oh god I was accused of directly contributing to the end of the world for working on research bias in LLM models

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:03:18 JST Quinn Norton

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     @simon people are very afraid, and your work seems subtle enough that lacking clear condemnations people make assumptions. It's a very scary time, and that doesn't result in critical thinking.

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:12:38 JST Quinn Norton

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     @simon it's possible you could write about that for a naive audience and then forward people to that when they're getting up in arms, but this being the internet, i don't know that it would help very much 😬

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     Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:12:40 JST Simon Willison

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     • Quinn Norton

     @quinn totally - and I'm sympathetic to that, this stuff really is weird and frightening and a lot of the negative implications and harmful applications are very real

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:41:17 JST Rocketman

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     • Julia Evans

     @b0rk @simon Me too!

     Your writings are a type of analysis that we sorely lack: competent, critical, and with a strong practical angle.

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:41:18 JST Julia Evans

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     @simon just wanted to say I really appreciate your LLM posts, your notes about Artifacts especially

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:49:35 JST Quinn Norton

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     @simon I'll queue that up for later, but my partner and I work on a software project, he's the engineer and... he's not afraid of losing his job. 😂

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     Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:49:37 JST Simon Willison

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     • Quinn Norton

     @quinn I've been planning a piece on why I don't think software engineers should be afraid of losing their jobs to LLMs - I've touched on it a little in podcasts but I've not written it up yet https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/10/software-misadventures/#are-we-all-going-to-lose-your-jobs-

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:58:04 JST Quinn Norton

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     @simon I absolutely *love* imitation intelligence and weird intern. as my partner points out, if you don't go through the code when it happens, there's no way you'lll maintain it... you're just going to end up re-writing bits of lost code when you lose context.