snooggums

TIL thin window fans are a thing!

I’m not surprised they exist, just had not noticed one before. Will probably see them all around now that I’m aware they exist.

The association between AI use and laziness perceptions is dependent upon the evaluators’ own AI use, and perceptions of laziness can be offset for tasks in which AI is clearly useful.

This work demonstrated that the use of productivity-enhancing tools can, paradoxically, erode social evaluations of their operators’ competence and motivation.

I do remember calculators being referred to as a crutch in the context of learning mathematics because doing the work was part of learning. The expectation was that harder work would be suitable after learning how to do the work first, so you knew if the output matched what you intended to input. There has always been concerns about over reliance on automation of any type.

But AI is so unreliable that a calculator is not a good comparison. It often is being used as a crutch as well, since everyone who openly talks about using AI at my office seem to just copy/paste the output and don’t do anything to clean up the incorrect parts. That is what gives the appearance of being lazy or less competent to those of us who see the downsides as outweighing the benefits. Those that are all in on AI sure do like patting each other on the back about using the hot new tools though!

$100k a year at 40 hours a week is $48.08 an hour, which might be even easier to see how far off of reality they are.

All my Gen X homies knew what enshittification was before it had a fun name.

We already did, but we will again too!

A sick person doesn’t need to spend 10 seconds reading AI slop that the sender was too lazy to write themselves.

Most people being sick don’t want to read all them words.

People can be as lazy as they fucking want to be when they are sick. You know, feeling shitty enough that they aren’t able to work?

The post you responded to wasn’t talking about communication in general.

So do houses!

They are basically investors in the housing market when their money makes its own money without their direct involvement.

I am reminded of this term about once a year and then promptly forget because it never comes up except in internet memes.

There is a change. Instead of people engaging with the shitty data harvesting voluntarily due to being unaware it is being forced on everyone including those who are aware.

I can guarantee all the ‘opt out’ choices are lies and they are harvesting the data anyway.

They do!

Has an old man encouraged you to take a ring to Mordor?

Smart like in smart appliances that are anything but.

unless they bother other

Well, that’s the thing. So many people are bothered when someone does something they wouldn’t personally do, often because they were told their whole life that there is only one proper way to exist.

“…unless they are harming someone else.” though, that is a pretty solid criteria.

“AI design is inherently defective and will never work correctly.”

Guess we need to jam it into more things!

LLMs are the culmination of the work done on search engines to find words and phrases relation to other words. Even the ones that aren’t “chatbots”, use similar methodology to try and get you what you’re looking for. That’s what propelled Google to the top of search.

Then why is LLM output worse than google from 10+ years ago? 10+ years ago I could type pretty much anything I thought of into google and get results that matched what I was looking for. LLMs just vomit up something that looks like it could be what I’m looking for, but isn’t.

That is an organic language, natural is only an extra dollar…

English seems to lean in a lot harder and consistently as time goes on compared to other languages.

DAM!