@aesthr thank you so much for this

Strength and solidarity to you 💜

@aesthr thank you so much

Strength and solidarity to you 💜

@aesthr @LJ I have been wanting to write a block post like this but have not made the time yet. I'm going to give this a read later on. Hopefully, it's something I can point to, too!

@aesthr great article, thanks for expressing this so well into words! 👏 I would love to read your thoughts on the recent Torvalds statements about AI: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

@aesthr Thanks for writing this down! I enjoyed some analogies, like the angle grinder vs fire department!

Small typo: The "b" in "but since it’s electricity ..." should be capitalized.

@aesthr I don't agree with all of the article, but it's a really good one!
"[...] And once you’re using it for something that you couldn’t do well yourself, you have no way of validating its output, rendering it very much not useful while still appearing as if it is."
So much this! There was a quote I've heard early:
"It's interesting that LLMs make so many mistakes in an area where I'm a specialist, but are perfect in everything else!"

@aesthr After greatly enjoying this (I am completely aligned with your stance on GenAI) and boosting it, I’ll put my editor cap on and list a couple of typos I spotted:

Find: pre-trained tranformer
Replace: pre-trained transformer

Find: this has it’s limits
Replace: This has its limits

Find: one it is made
Replace: once it is made

Cheers! And as always, hashtag FuckAI.

@aesthr Great article! Thank you!

@aesthr Thank you for writing this. Most of the same points have been kicking around in my head around this, and it was cathartic to read.

@aesthr Good for you.

Me too. Every day I write something. Not to publish, but to order my thoughts away from chaos. I’m at currently at, if you support any AI you’re a climate change denialist.

Sorry if this seems like a thread hijacking.

@aesthr Esther, this is such a good article.

Thank you for this.

@aesthr Thank you for this! Very helpful :)

Maybe i misunderstand something here:

"A more implicit example could be the steam engine. It’s not just an invention that happened in a vacuum. Without the political and economical framework of the fossil fuel industry it can’t operate and would lose its entire reason for existing."

'steam engine' needs fossil fuel industry?
Should it say ´combustion engine' or smthg?

@aesthr thank you so much for this! An article like this was on my to-do list for way to long and now I can happily point people to yours 🥳

@aesthr

Well worth a boost, thank you so much for writing it 🙏

@aesthr I've been having the intention of writing this article for a long time, actually have a preliminary version.

Yours is so much better written, more comprehensive and better sourced than mine would. Thank you so much.

Would you be OK if I translated it to Spanish and posted in on my blog at some point? Referencing you of course.