RE: This is not a platform that rewards AI s#!t
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Every tech person that's created something like this has regretted it. Of course everyone's hurrying as it means profit.
The research coming out now is saying what I've said since the first LLM sputtered something intelligible.
If we depend on AI for everything, our brains will unlearn or never learn - we become dumber. You and I have our writing and thinking licences, so if we use it as a tool, it's okay. I do - I find it more trustworthy than Google searches which are full of paid ads and AI content.
I also use it as a thesaurus. It's in conversation WITH, and I often learn from it as I go. Help me find a more violent word for munching, for example, for a poem I'm writing. I find it often revelatory and useful.
There's some really amusing stuff about people deifying AI too. Even on Hive, an old Hiver was talking about his own AIs sentience, unable to see the machine was being sycophantic. His ego loved that and he HAD to attribute feeling to it because he wanted to believe it. There's a great scene in Foundation where the AI reveals it's true face to remind someone it is not human, only resembles one.
Gah, I could talk about this forever.
I read an interesting article on AI and University education the other day ..
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper
I think the key is that education systems need to change the way they approach education, but that's been coming for a while.
This was my last AI musing.
https://peakd.com/hive-126152/@riverflows/hunting-for-dad-the-failings-of-ai
And btw, fuck people who use AI TO RESPOND TO MY POSTS.
Please do talk about it forever, it is very much an interesting topic. When I was researching for my upcoming post "Art is a threat", I was looking for references to artwork that threatened the establishment.
The only results I got on google were about how AI is a threat to artists. It kind of missed the semantic point, in its own search, which is horrific.
Not to mention the fact, that it isn't even "intelligent" - it is just a sophisticated predictive, statistical model, and people are having the sheepskins pulled over their visual (and frontal) cortexes and lobes.
Indeed. Though I'm increasingly worried that won't be enough even, I've been observing for years how people my age (still in 2nd degrees or master's degrees or whatever they're called) are essentially being educated for jobs the AI already has. Imagine the hopelessness and sense of uselessness that will come down on these people.
Here in Australia they're just making a law about if you can, you are legally allowed to work from home 2 days a week. The joke is, that if it's a job where you can work from home, AI can probably do it.