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Did I just write almost 5000 words about why generative "AI" should be resisted, going through every single one of my reasons?
Yes. Because I need this article to exist so I can point people to it.
Enjoy and share widely.
https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html
@elduvelle in my experience you need to find a thing they care about and then tell them about how "AI" damages that thing.
For example I've had success with a data-protection angle recently for people in the medical sector who do really care about the confidentiality of their clients
@aesthr
Thanks for taking the time to write this!
@elduvelle
I also take the approach of focusing on a thing they care about. The feeling "it's just not going through" is shared! Some reply "I know you are right, but I'll continue to use it nevertheless". But it is necessary and useful to explain once and again; like planting a seed, the effect is not immediately visible, and often it simply won't germinate. But sometimes it works.
A minor complaint on "LLMs are simply not capable of producing new knowledge". In mathematics, new knowledge is certainly available through the use of LLMs, and technicalities or stating that it was implicit in the sources won't convince my colleagues. What I do is try to show that the actual cost is overwhelmingly bigger than the benefit.
@aesthr
Great piece!
Thank you for writing and sharing!
@aesthr Excellent stuff, thanks for writing it!
@aesthr that’s half my reason for writing, so I don’t have to repeat myself, lol.
@aesthr Reading this now. Thank you for writing and sharing this.
This article has been living in my head for months now, often preventing me from focusing on anything else.
I'm so glad I got this out finally.
@aesthr Good job! Thank you.
@aesthr under politics, it might be worth calling out how the training data explicitly reinforces biases already present leading to additional sexism and racism for example. I think you alluded to it, but if I wasn't thinking about it I probably would've filled in the blank with something else.
Otherwise, it's super helpful. I'll definitely be sharing it with people I know. I also appreciate some of the suggested readings. I'll have to check those out.
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@aesthr Really good and well-sourced piece, thank you for writing and sharing it!!
I spotted two typos, in case it's useful:
"generative pe-trained tranformer" -> pre-trained?
"Longermism" -> longtermism?
Now the question is how do we go through people who have already caught the genAI virus? I've been sharing these arguments with some that I know and it's just not going through...