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The thing about this, as someone who’s very versed in LLMs and related technologies, is that the mainstream, mass-marketed versions of “AI” are *worthy* of contempt! Even if you like this tech, why would you advocate for such shitty versions of it? The Internet didn’t *start out* being shitty!

Actually the early Internet was pretty shitty. Text only, low bandwidth. A few hundred sites. It got good after Mosaic and with broadband.

the early internet was *incredibly good* at being what they designed the early internet to be. FTP transferred files from one place to another. Mailing lists sent mail to a list of people. I do not feel the same way about the current crop of AI.

I used it too. It was shitty compared to what we can do today. No system starts out perfect. Take off those rose coloured glasses before you start telling us how great society was in the 1840s.

It is fucking wild to see a white man condescend to tell a person of color that things are better now than before the Civil War. Things were better before you jumped in my mentions and tried to lecture me on topics that I know far better than you.

How the early Internet was presented is not the same as how AI is being presented Here's a synopsis made by AI for you claude.ai/share/7abdca...

Feel free to complain about the marketing. But don’t confuse the tool with the spin. Evaluate the tools and use them where they are fit for purpose.