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   stefan (stk@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:00:31 JST stefan

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   What I find irritating though is the number of people who appear to have some scientific background, who seem to have no problem however with enthusiastically embracing black-box genAI systems as a cure-all. With anecdotal evidence seeming to be enough justification.

   The same people who would (of course!) scoff at things like homeopathy because of it being unscientific, apply less rigorous measures against genAI than they would against quackery. The more I see this, the less I get it.

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     stefan (stk@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:00:32 JST stefan

     I find it interesting that ever more journalistic outlets publicly lament that “only x% of [audience] are already using generative AI!” in kind of a pearl-clutching, “how _dare_ all the others?!” way.

     In the past week, the mental comparison with statements like “only x% of all people are already using radium toothpaste” being published in serious outlets fills me with ever more amusement.

     Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radior_cosmetics_containing_radium_1918.jpg (apparently public domain)

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.