Notices by JJ Celery (jjcelery@mastodon.ie)

@luna and further still to drive the distinction: I speak of generative AI and large language models.

Machine Learning is a superset of these terms, and it's extremely useful.

To go back to my metaphor, there's good magic objects, and cursed magic objects. If your lore skill is not high enough to know which one is which, you'll wind up using a cursed object and think it's good for you.

@luna and to go further, people aren't "infected" with LLMs. It's not a disease. It's not communicable. There's no direct physical hurt, and also no doctors, no cures, and no vaccines.

People don't seek help for something they believe is helping them.

We must be careful with our language around all this, even in metaphor.

(I say this fully aware of my own metaphor and taking my own liberties, but there's seriousness, and there's jest.)

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

@luna that's exactly what I'm saying: not a drug. A magical amulet that makes you think you're smart.

A prosthetic is a wrong analogy. Prosthetics are needed, and useful, and empower people. To compare an AI to a prosthetic, or even a crutch is disrespectful to people who need these tools to function.

No. LLMs are just evil doodads that rot your brain and whisper sweet nothings into your ears in the deep of the night. They're not valuable; they make you *believe* they are.

You know when you're plugged into the Zeitgeist of the fediverse when you don't even add a hashtag and churn out your most popular toot in months.

It's just a shame it's cursed.

I saw LLMs compared to a drug in this toot, but in conversation with Himself today we concluded it's like a cursed amulet.

You *believe* it gives you +10 INT. Meanwhile it drains INT and WIS over time, and you don't notice.

Everyone around you knows it's bad for you and generally for the realm, but you won't stop wearing it, they're just jelous of your newfound powers, and they would know how awesome it is if they only tried! Why won't they try? Just try the amulet!!

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115839163441384816

I had to get a new laptop and it arrived today and yes, this is happening, my carefully selected sticker fits perfectly over the manufacturer logo 🥹

@padraig have a look at your PHP memory limits - bumping it up makes a hella difference

In a hut of an evil witch.

Witch: I see you are desperate. Yes. I will teach you how to make dresses, but this skill will come with a terrible price.
Me: Anything! What is it?!
Witch: You will have to hem them.
Me: That doesn't seem that bad.

Later, at a sewing machine:
Me: That bitch.

[In the distance the witches' cackle carries on the wind.]

[End scene]

#sewing #microFiction