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| author | Hannah Isopod <me@bathynomus.xyz> | 2025-11-09 08:58:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Hannah Isopod <me@bathynomus.xyz> | 2025-11-09 08:58:02 -0700 |
| commit | 16e48ed8655528a81cbec84f0cbc1a211d663b37 (patch) | |
| tree | a567a674392f08f24274fc8803323ebf6df7ad36 /blog/posts/ai2/index.md | |
| parent | 9792b0963772d8657e8c32bdd647995250daaada (diff) | |
Probably final commit before the redesign
Routine updates to various pages
Accessibility fix in /guestbook
Updated /uses im pretty sure
Reorganized /blog/ a little under the hood
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diff --git a/blog/posts/ai2/index.md b/blog/posts/ai2/index.md index 37d7d0f..750d442 100644 --- a/blog/posts/ai2/index.md +++ b/blog/posts/ai2/index.md @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Of course, tech like this isn't the *point* of the hype cycle. Nvidia didn't bec ## The it's-complicated -LLMs are, by nature, endless fountains of grammatically-fluent drivel utterly devoid of real meaning. This makes it anywhere from unsettling to infuritating to see them used in contexts such as education, journalism, or software development<sup id="n3r"><a href="#n3">3</a></sup>, but it makes them uniquely suited to two use cases: spam, and the sort of high-verbosity, low-meaning communication that's expected of you in a professional setting — in other words, the LLM has democratized the least valuable forms of written communication in existence. +LLMs are, by nature, endless fountains of grammatically-fluent drivel utterly devoid of real meaning. This makes it anywhere from unsettling to infuriating to see them used in contexts such as education, journalism, or software development<sup id="n3r"><a href="#n3">3</a></sup>, but it makes them uniquely suited to two use cases: spam, and the sort of high-verbosity, low-meaning communication that's expected of you in a professional setting — in other words, the LLM has democratized the least valuable forms of written communication in existence. Naturally the addition of more spam to the world is never a good thing, but I can't honestly begrudge anyone using an LLM to expand a sticky note's worth of information into an appropriately vacuous cover letter or work email or whatever. I might just be autistic, but I frankly believe that this kind of writing deserves to be delegated to the verbose bullshit machine if it doesn't come naturally to you, especially if employers are going to, well, employ these tools themselves to field your job application. Of course, a just world would provide no incentive to create either of these types of writing anyway. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Let's get one thing straight, however: If you use genai to generate memes or, li ## They did a conclusion on this one -Here's hoping this one comes off as less of an unhinged rant than the last time I posted about this. This is by no means a complete compendium of every thought I've had about genai, but it is everything I think I have something substantial to say about. For example, the whole concept of deepfakes is pretty horrifying, but I don't have anything to add to that conversation beyond gesturing vaguely at it and going like "wow, that's pretty fucked up, huh?". +Here's hoping this one comes off as less of an unhinged rant than the last time I posted about this. This is by no means a complete compendium of every thought I've had about genai, but it is everything I think I have something substantial to say about. For example, the whole concept of deepfakes is pretty horrifying, but I don't have anything to add to that conversation beyond gesturing vaguely at it and going like "wow, that's pretty fucked up, huh? anyway im rod serling". It's clear at this point that genai is here to stay in at least *some* capacity, but I'd be shocked if the push for unsolicited LLM chatbots and image generators in everything was able to sustain itself for much longer. I personally can't wait for a year or two from now when someone finds yet another novel way to make their Nvidia GPU draw 500 watts for hours on end and it gets marketed as Quantum Computing™ or some shit. @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Linked above: <p id="n1"><a href="#n1r">1</a>. Pronounced "gen-eye", with the "G" sound from "graphics". This is to annoy people who think genai is cool.</p> -<p id="n2"><a href="#n2r">2</a>. In particular, Microsoft's insistence on this garbage is <span style="color: yellow;">Pissing</span> me off. I'm genuinely considering getting a Macbook for some upcoming Adobe-requiring classes just to avoid Copilot/Recall/whatever nonsense they come up with next.</p> +<p id="n2"><a href="#n2r">2</a>. In particular, Microsoft's insistence on this garbage is <span style="color: yellow;">Pissing</span> me off. I'm genuinely considering (<strong>update</strong>: I did) getting a Macbook for some upcoming Adobe-requiring classes just to avoid Copilot/Recall/whatever nonsense they come up with next.</p> <p id="n3"><a href="#n3r">3</a>. If you unironically self-identify as a "vibe coder" I'm coming to your house and confiscating every internet-capable device you own. Hand over the MacBook, dipshit, you've lost your computer priveleges until you're ready to develop a working understanding of how the technology you're working with professionally actually functions.</p> |
