https://x.com/i/status/2059240459222868479
“They stole all this data from us, the people, our life’s work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility.”
This is the issue that has been bugging me for a while as I learned how these AI agents were created. This is straight up theft from the public.
This is an an enormous issue that can’t and won’t be glazed over.
How much will it cost to get our Athletic Department thriving and BB in the Dance and FB bowling? Asking for a friend.
clt says this is a bridge too far:
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There are a lot of dummies out there.
I can tell you though that AI is coming for the tech workers big time. It’s amazing what has happened in 2-3 years. But in the past 6 months it went from that’s kinda useful to game changing.
For what I do, the company is paying $40 for a subscription on a dev tool. With that, in can do in hours what would take days. It’s so useful I could see needing to go up to the next sub level which goes to probably a couple hundred. Even at that, it would pay for itself many times over each month.
What’s crazy is it is tech workers who are figuring this tuff out, how to make it productive, use it creatively. They are digging their own graves.
Even us non techie boomers saw this coming. Like Dylan said you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Is that real?
I’m glad me and my team are still in an area of IT that requires boots on the ground and hands on cables and racks to some extent, along with talking to customers and partners to troubleshoot issues, work on designs, projects, etc. AI will probably eventually take some of our work but it’s gonna be a while I think.
Speaking of tutoring and education, one of the best study aids / knowledge aggregators out there is NotebookLM by google. I setup a notebook for my son with a lot of the material he needed to study for a professional python cert. prior to that he scored a 35. After he scored a 90. Sophomore in high school.
I created a pseudo AI wealth adviser by setting up a notebook with all the episodes of a financial podcaster I listen to. It’s like having him as my advisor. Just gave it the YouTube links.
clt says this is happening. we have too many idiots who get all news from social media
https://x.com/i/status/2064797676475187520
I wondered about this. Eventually it seems to me like AI is going to resolve to the lowest common denominator vanilla version of everything and lose the essence of human thought and creativity.
These things are built on human content and creativity. You are correct. Like stackoverflow used to be the place where people posted code snippets, how to fix code, etc. AI ate that all up like candy. Now it’s pretty much dead because you can just ask AI. But as the default becomes ask AI for everything what are the new AI models going to be trained on that’s actually new. It will be AI models being trained on AI slop of prior models.
It’s even worse though, because humans are now also being trained on “AI” slop. I have students using phrasing that sounds a little like an AI model when they write something in class (which is the only way to reliably have students write anything that isn’t using the language models any more, it’s just too ingrained in their daily routines). The tech companies and our easy acceptance of their hype has probably ruined a generation of young people’s chance to learn how to think (something that already was waning before all this). It will be a real shock when hardly any one is left that knows enough to check what the models are putting out. Experts can recognise a crappy answer and maybe gain some use from the good parts, novices will have no idea what is good and what isn’t, leading to a further spiral down the toilet bowl. I’m still hoping this collapses soon because they can’t turn a profit from it, but I also don’t want to see the economy go under when it happens because of all the people that will really hurt.
clt says ai is making us dumer