Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
One more thought on the whole Wikipedia / "prompt engineering" thing: AI marketers have abused the absolute hell out of weaknesses in the academic publishing system in order to manufacture the idea that "prompt engineering" is real.
Namely, preprints exist due to extensive problems in peer review and for-profit publishing. It's become the standard in many nascent fields where for-profit publishing has less of a chokehold.
But then AI grifters capitalize on that to just say whatever they like.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
It's another way that AI grifting is a bleak mirror of earlier "intelligent design" grifting. Academic publishing is a complete disaster, and at the same time, is held up by institutions like Wikipedia as a marker of scientific legitimacy — and to some degree, rightly so. After all, there's not a better system already out there that people outside of a field can use to evaluate knowledge within a field.
So we're left with a situation where someone can just piss in the knowledge pool.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
AI grifters have basically invented a new "fact," that LLMs can be "programmed," and built a whole epistemological chain to back that up. Where does that leave non-experts trying to critically evaluate AI claims?z
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