this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] maol@awful.systems 41 points 6 months ago

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

[–] mii@awful.systems 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I used to believe public institutions like the WHO wouldn't jump onto any stupid bandwagon, but here we are.

But at least they acknowledge it's all bullshit on their own website, lol.

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[–] yellowcake@awful.systems 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hate this cop out everyone uses when they stuff AI into their system. “By using it it’s actually your fault for believing the information” while also making it the preferred or even only way to try and get information. This is unethical especially in healthcare

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 16 points 6 months ago

Just washing their hands of consequences

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 6 months ago

So they basically acknowledge it is useless. Cool. What progress.

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Google maps has been hounding me to try AI searching, but I cannot for the life of me think of a reason why I would want to ever do so.

This is just another reason why AI sucks at concrete data searching. Give it a prompt for coming up with a new recipe for some dinner dish, sure. Help me formulate listicles for my shitty blog, okay.

But asking AI to find the nearby hospital, grocery store, or arcade seems fucking ludicrous. Fix your search indexers for real places don't offload that to hallucinating LLMs.

[–] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's really annoying because SEARCH IS REALLY GOOD ALREADY and "AI searching" is adding a bad, buggy frontend over either the already good search or a worse version of search (vector DB searches).

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ah but see, if you move these here goalposts of quality, suddenly there's a whole lot more "room for improvement" and thus a longer commercial horizon! and best of all is it doesn't even reuse the same old stuff - innovation! out with the old! yay to crushing tech debt!

our management is very smart.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

saw (via toots) that fb also updated their messenger, by replacing the previously-normally-used-by-normal-people search bar with some ai searchprompt garbage too

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago

acausal health insurance

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 7 points 6 months ago

I bet they still send your bills to collections

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

The 'coolest' thing about AI is that you can slash your customer support overhead and impress the tech-illiterate investment boomers.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

Of course it does?