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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days ago

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days ago
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Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or t…

science shows as true what you thought was only 99% true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVf7VUX_iUk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251015-ai-is-not-popular-and-ai-users-are-unpleasant-asshats - podcast

time: 5 min 57 sec

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    If your definition of ai is only LLMs, sure. But it’s been algorithmic tweaking and SEO wars for a while now.

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      Well yeah, llm garbage is the problem being discussed. Do you consider SEO to be ai? I don’t see why you would.

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        No, but the algorithms that search engines use to combat it is.

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          ah minor correction, you’re on Lemmy not on Mastodon, the venue for this sort of tedious and point-avoiding pedantry

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          No, they aren’t.

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