Seriously though, I find it so difficult to understand why the largest website in the world can’t see that a new account whose only post is ‘daddy, I lonely tonight and need a strong man for company, DM me’ might be worthy of a temporary activity pause?
One of the most fascinating things about generative AI is the businesses and states that are using it are largely doing “we’ve sped up this lengthy process”, whereas the tech companies’ largely seem to be going “we made this thing you like worse”.
An eye-opener for me was a call with colleagues in... let's just call it "country with much worse work-life balance rules". I've been quite critical of gen AI tools we've been testing, because the output quality is unacceptable and cleaning it up is as much work as writing from scratch. But...
Difficult (for me at least) to resist the conclusion they kind of need to start again by which I mean train on much more tightly defined bodies of information. Ofc that implies a more limited product but c’est la vie.
Yes the genAI and indeed much of the ML community have been frankly childish in their willy-nilly use of data. The use of focused smaller language models (based on curated data sets relevant to a domain) is in my mind the important next step.
It strikes me as a classic sales phenomenon. Plus my hunch is there’s a deeper problem relating to efforts to continue to expand a very overvalued US tech bubble. Also see the increased politicization of some of the tech folks.
absolutely this. I think it is part of a continuum with the enshittification of financial products since the mid-80s. (currently trying to formulate these vague parallels into a cohesive narrative....)
That doesn’t really play out though does it? Even in scenarios where you’re literally just feeding it meticulously accurate code libraries - it still produces meaningless incorrect statistical hodge podges - garbage code. They’re statistical autocomplete machines. The garbage bullshit is baked in.
