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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Hot take: I don’t understand everything being shouted right now about this; however, I am cautiously confident that people older/younger than me, richer/poorer than me, obscenely smarter than me will take pity and explain. Naïveté in its purest form, surely. So, are you human or an obscene asshole?

It’s actually really good. I use AI the same way I used the old school MS Word grammar tools…to help sharpen my technical writing for the right audiences. But to try to create something whole-cloth…

Heh. It's a wonder my toes aren't shrivveled cancerous nubs the number my feet were viewed in a shoe store fluoroscope. I doubt they had any certifiaction standards in the early 50's.