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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 22:03:35 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   I continue to be negative about generative AI assistants insofar as every time someone has written a piece of any length "co-written by an AI" it has all sorts of errors I point out the author hadn't even noticed were there

   Most irritatingly is that MULTIPLE TIMES people have written drafts about my work that simply injected and made up history. If they had just published them, that history would be cyclically referenced in the future as if fact

   That kind of thing just happens all the time now

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 22:10:42 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Study after study also shows that AI assistants erode the development of critical thinking skills and knowledge *retention*. People, finding information isn't the biggest missing skillset in our population, it's CRITICAL THINKING, so this is fucked up

     https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
     https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-024-00316-7
     https://resources.uplevelteam.com/gen-ai-for-coding
     https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-generated-code-outages/
     https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622
     https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11128619/

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     Hieronymous Smash (heironymous@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:10:38 JST Hieronymous Smash

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     @cwebber Same. Cue me showing my boss that it takes me MORE time to generate the thing they want with an assistant *and then make it correct* than it would take me to do it myself...then reminding them again every time the salespeople come back...

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     Indieterminacy (indieterminacy@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 01:32:28 JST Indieterminacy

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     @cwebber as somebody who actively takes coding risks to the point where I have to be mindful of things breaking and coding being not easily understandable by outsiders, it seems perverse seeing a (growing?) body of people accepting increased chaos and brittleness of processes for instant convenience. En masse, it looks like a dangerous moral hazard experiment. A shame ML hasnt been explored by more prior to AI. Its adoption is akin to caffeine, amphetamine or opiates as an industrial strategy.

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     Job (vanderzwan@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 21:17:39 JST Job

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     @cwebber "and harder to spot too"

     This is a thing that I feel is underestimated by so many people: these tools are trained to generate output that is as *convincing* as possible, regardless of whether the output is *correct*.