Post B4Y25qx2JzkiYo5kps by gourd@indiepocalypse.social
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 (DIR) Post #B4X47oz4bzcVmy9Q5g by Chase@chaos.social
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       @EmilyEnough this is a very justified rantBut the thought of computers being too autistic so people had to turn them neurotypical by adding llms is just so funny
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y1fLQctqaNGVIAiG by JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
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       @EmilyEnough as a non-autistic person, they are also horrible at the other communication styles, since those require comprehension and intuition. Like, I can’t read what an LLM is getting at because it’s not getting at anything. It’s a parlor trick at best, with no memory and no real relationship with me.And yeah, the whole point of computers was to have something more dependable and predictable than human capacities, especially in…computing. Like, it’s almost impressive to make a computer bad at computing.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y21eNF8qdMOVLUwq by mikemccaffrey@neurodifferent.me
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       @EmilyEnough Wow, I have thought a lot about how coding LLMs are antithetical to my own OCD tendencies that want everything to be built and formatted in a very specific way (i.e. the right way), but had not considered how terrible the interface would be for folks who prefer not to have to process information conversationally.I would love to read an entire book or series of articles about how LLMs as an interface enforce neurotypical modes of communication on neurodiverse people.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y21eYwRLzWymoqBM by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @mikemccaffrey @EmilyEnough there’s a related situation (without all the other downsides): I often take scans of public domain sheet music and turn them into digital musical engravings (which you can then play, print, convert into Braille music, easily arrange, etc).In the beginning, I thought it would be easier to take a digital score of the same piece from someone else and just fix bugs and remove and add things until it represents what I need (they are often minor arrangements), even wrote a cleanup XSLT to remove hidden "gems".Turns out that looking through what others did is just so much harder that it’s faster to type in the whole thing from scratch (and I could use someone after me to look it over for my typos anyway in both cases).
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y25qx2JzkiYo5kps by gourd@indiepocalypse.social
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       @mikemccaffrey @EmilyEnough The "you can write natural language queries" idea has always gotten a response from me of "why the fuck would I want to do that?" Standard search engine queries and stuff are so much easier.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y29OICoboOpsgFjk by dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de
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       @EmilyEnough plagiarism laundering machineNever thought about it like this, but it is indeed similar to alaundering.You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing.This line sums up the futility extremely well.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y2DM5yvUCdBCqxpw by evildrganymede@wargamers.social
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       @EmilyEnough I think you're absolutely correct on this. Yet another reason why we need to find a way to irrevocably destroy this abomination.But also it's not just the style of "communication" that these algorithms are pretending to do, it's that you cannot trust that their output is even correct because they have no understanding of what they are "saying". They could be "hallucinating" complete nonsense but they'll output it in an authoritative way and may even make up references that don't exist. They're 100% bullshit generators (it's even been scientifically proven).
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y2HmbgIeMiYrn9Hs by rupert@mastodon.nz
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       @EmilyEnough Had an interesting chat with the senior director at my office recently. He pointed out that as far as he can see, he already uses natural language to explain what he wants from software. This is just faster.It was a perspective I hadn't considered before, but the more I think about it the more I think it's deeply insulting.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y2aMkieK5psUsdJQ by j@mastodon.n41.lat
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       @EmilyEnough To me, the whole self-declared  #AI industry is a massive financial scam. As someone else wrote: 'it is the industry pushing multi-billion dollar solutions to million dollar problems'.