I love how AI has done nothing at all except make shit worse

and yet people are still??? trying to push it????

all it's done is make shit worse!

The people trying to push it are the same ones who did Crypto, it's all ponzi schemes

This time though their special project destroys the environment even more and also rampantly steals from everyone

But think of how much money it’s saved by making shit worse

All that money that was wasted paying people wages so they can eat and live

The cure to the rampant onslaught of disinformation: build a machine of misinformation. It’s fool proof

I don't know how to get rid of it but it does all my basic chemistry googles wrong

Like sometimes I don't want to spend a minute and a half so I search balanced equation for zinc chloride reaction or whatever

And it's never correct

Before I would just get a Google result that had the right answer

internet applications of AI are still so insane to me

big tech wants to replace, like, the concept of knowledge

with "guessing a statistical average based on hundreds of terabytes of random garbage data"

I don't know the scale of data. it's probably more than hundreds

but that does not actually change the fact

that the entire idea is fundamentally useless in all contexts

I keep seeing people being like "why does the AI get answers wrong, we need to teach it more" and it's like, you can't "teach" it shit, okay?

it's a pattern-making machine, it copies and reproduces patterns of letters

everything that it produces is nonsense, a series of mindless assemblages with no consciousness or theory of mind behind it

and the best we can do is give it good patterns to copy, and then build exacting "don't-make-this-pattern, make-more-of-that-pattern" fences around it to try and corral the nonsense it produces within the bounds of reality, such that it matches up as often as possible with what is actually true

and it will still wander past those fences, like ivy, and need constant checking and pruning

this is an incredibly inefficient way to replace many of the human services that people want to use it to replace

and yet here we are!