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  • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.world•Grandmom asked me to sharpen her hatchet. What's worth doing is worth over-doingEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Like the Man who in buying an Ax of a Smith my neighbor, desired to have the whole of its Surface as bright as the Edge; the Smith consented to grind it bright for him if he would turn the Wheel. He turn’d while the Smith press’d the broad Face of the Ax hard & heavily on the Stone, which made the Turning of it very fatiguing. The Man came every now & then from the Wheel to see how the Work went on; and at length would take his Ax as it was without farther Grinding. No, says the Smith, Turn on, turn on; we shall have it bright by and by; as yet ’tis only speckled. Yes, says the Man; but—I think I like a speckled Ax best.

    And I believe this may have been the Case with many who having for want of some such Means as I employ’d found the Difficulty of obtaining good, & breaking bad Habits, in other Points of Vice & Virtue, have given up the Struggle, & concluded that a speckled Ax was best.

    Relevant portion. Previous stuff is the usual be more efficient and good.

  • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTubeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is exactly how I view LLMs and have used them before.

    These people in these scenarios aren’t going ‘Amazon buy my gf a gift she likes.’

    They’re going, please write a letter to my professor thanking them for their help and all they’ve done for me in biology.

    I don’t know of anyone who trusts AI enough to just carte blanche fire off emails immediately after getting prompts back either.

    The fear and cheapening of AI is the same fear and cheapening as every other advancement in technology.

    • It’s not a a real conversation unless you talk face to face like a man say it in a group write it on parchment and ink pen and paper typewriter telegram phonecall text message fax email. E: rip strikethroughs?

    • It’s not a real paper if it’s a meta analysis.

    • It’s not it’s not it’s not.

    All for arbitrary reasons that people have used to offset mundane garden levels of tedium or just outright ableist in some circumstances.

    People also seriously overestimate their ability to detect AI writing or even pictures. That dude may very well have gotten a sincere letter without AI but they’ve already set it in their mind that the student wrote it with AI as if they know this student so well from 10 written assignments they probably don’t care about to 1 potentially sincerely written statement to them.

    If people like that think it cheapens the value, that’s on them. People go on and on about removing pointless platitudes and dumb culturally ingrained shit but then clutch their pearls the moment one person toes outside the in-group.

    It just feels so silly to me.

    IT’S NOT ART UNLESS IT’S OIL ON CANVAS levels of dumb.

    It’s not altruistic/good-natured unless you don’t benefit from it in any way and feel no emotion by doing it! You can’t help the homeless unless you follow the rules! You can’t give them money if you record it.

    In the end, they still got that money. But somehow it devalues it because instead of raising two people up higher, you only raised one? It’s foolishness.

    People also seriously overestimate other’s abilities and cheapen what their time is worth all the damn time.