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@edfinnerty.bsky.social

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I'm a Byliner. No clearly identified human author/artist, no sale, no read, no view, no click. Pretty sure my meager follower count is inflated by bots and scammers. I do not maintain my posting history.

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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 14d

I feel like this is somehow risky to say, but it shouldn't be: I cannot possibly care deeply about every issue. I cannot possibly be informed about every issue. Nobody can. I'd rather be honest than performative. I'd rather read what those who do care have to say and keep my mouth shut.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 7h

You really haven't any idea what you';really talking about have you? That's how you step in it. I understand 'AI' (the marketing term used to sell LLMs and other gen code) at the code level. That 'AI' sucks. People who think it is transformational are uninformed, gullible fuckwits.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 7h

Looking forward to Peter Sagal's apologism for this round of the NYT unambiguously violating the public trust and abandoning anything approaching journalistic ethics. Because he has friends who work there.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 12h

What kind of civilization would want this?

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 16h

He *seems* like an insufferable douchebag.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

For clarity, they want and have success without struggle or craft, success they decide is meaningful just because it is lucrative.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

They think everyone wants what they want and have.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

That'll do it.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

Broadcast radio and TV, what records we could afford, a few books that we bought, the encyclopedia that we owned, the library. My dad would give is the comics from the newspaper when he was done with it. We just played outside instead. We only had a few early video games.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

All true. I'm a couple years older than you. I remember all of that vividly. I grew up in suburbs with access to good libraries, but even with that, we generally just didn't engage with all that much media.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

There is no way he made that statement in good faith. He knows he's not telling the truth.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

All valid options, yes. And any change is going to involve some adjustment. It sucks, but that's all there appears to be beyond the slow (and currently jammed) mechanisms of government.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

I mean don't participate in LLMs in general, staying way from Google as much as possible, etc.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

My opinion of those companies can't get any lower. And it appears we're helpless to do anything other than not participate.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

Err, half baked. Pardon the stray 'the.'

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 1d

All these "smart" people really aren't. We need to get our heads around that reality. The entire industry has a get rich quick scheme mindset. It's not geniuses making brilliantly engineered innovations. It's greedy people throwing half the baked junk out for the grifter CEOs to push.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 2d

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M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 2d

With each passing month, the supposed titans of industry reveal themselves more and more to be nothing but vapid, idea-free seekers of get rich quick schemes. A bunch of far less likable Ralph Kramdens pretending to be visionaries.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 2d

"While his heart was in the right place" is a conclusion that can only be drawn if it is assumed that his head is completely empty.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d

But again, read Zitron, see the depth and the sourcing, and consider that some shouting is called for by all the mendacity and hand waving and lack of interrogation of any of the main gen code companies' claims by the broader tech media.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d

Emily Bender, Alex Hanna, Karen Hao, Gary Marcus, Molly White, Timnit Gebru, and many others.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d

And there are many others, all easy to find. Your claim that Zitron has no substance and implicit claim that substantial critics are hard to find are both not merely questionable, but absurdly off base. That's why you're getting the ratio that you are, not a lack of niceness.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d

Ed Zitron provides a ton of substance, especially regarding the business math of it all, which is a big deal. Baldur Bjarnason provides a lot as well. He wrote a whole book on problems with generative code.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d

It is. The reporters get bored and lazy. It's either that, or they've lost all objectivity, for reasons ranging from the utterly banal to the nefarious.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d

This will somehow be far *more* embarrassing than the Ashley Madison breach.

M II Types @edfinnerty.bsky.social · 4d

Getting angry at people who present actual facts is the MAGA playbook. It's so sad to see people who should know better acting that way. You're doing the right thing, and I'm glad you know it.