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Raptor
@raptornx01.bsky.social

I can see the logic in the thought process, "I have a story about "Ai" where there are deep discussion from varying points of view, so why not also ask the "Ai" that exists for it's thoughts". But here's the problem, generative Ai ISN'T Ai, its a spell checker given the name "Ai" as marketing.

Raptor
@raptornx01.bsky.social

GenAi has as much in common to AM as a stereotypical movie ransom note has to Good Housekeeping Magazine. when asking an LLM for its analysis, you are not getting it's analysis. it does not analysis, it does not think, you are getting the regurgitated analysis of real human writers passed as its own

Raptor
@raptornx01.bsky.social

A collage of images pretending to be a new work. There is no value in it's output, there is nothing to be learned, nothing to be gained, aside from a reminder of human gullibility. The insight to be gleamed in learning how a conman can get an old lady to given him all her life savings.

Raptor
@raptornx01.bsky.social

All of which makes the moral issues inherent in the tech, the theft of works, the destruction of towns and the environment, the mental deterioration of its users, the deaths its caused, too high of a price for far too weak of a product. Pact with the devil for a ham sandwich thats far too dry.

Khaki
@khaki.dog

That was a thoughtful response and I appreciate you sharing the similarly thoughtful consideration you gave before including the AI-generated content. I think there are still gaps in your understanding of the generative technologies being marketed as AI, though, that I hope you'll research further.

Khaki
@khaki.dog

ChatGPT didn't run into any questions, and it didn't form a point of view. Its output is not noteworthy and it doesn't fundamentally deserve anyone's attention: "if [you] couldn't be bothered to write it why should I bother to read it?"

Khaki
@khaki.dog

Your point about Photoshop and its ilk is valid of course but while it's alike in *kind* it's unalike degree, to an extreme: Photoshop wasn't made possible by a massive act of theft, nor did its operation massively contribute to environmental degradation, employee exploitation and misinformation.