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knowing how things work allows you to criticize and fight things way better than ignoring them because you dislike them does

insisting that guns are bad and their users are immoral, so you don't need to know anything about them, doesn't change what happens when someone aims one at you, and keeps you from knowing how to make one safe if it's necessary for you to do so

you can believe that LLMs are just as incapable as they were in 2023 all you want. that just means the FBI, which uses modern ones that work pretty well for whatever the hell they're doing with them, knows more about them than you do

also insisting they have or don't have characteristics or abilities that any coworker with a chatgpt account can go and disprove you about instantly just makes you look stupid, and reflects badly on everyone else. would you prefer ammo that can trivially be rendered inert, or do you want to win?

I'm just not sure it matters either way? Except for winning an argument, what problems can I solve better by knowing more about how they work?

yeah bsky.app/profile/reas...

i would gently push back on the notion that coworkers can meaningfully prove you wrong on average in the fields where these things are supposed to be the most effective. i have worked in software for a decade and every encounter with ai is still correcting obviously wrong output

here’s what I don’t get, though, right: what does this give them over what they already had?

better automation and things that can raise and highlight when a "joke" might not actually be a joke

I was searching instagram for an old friends profile, and its inbuilt AI search dingus immediately told me the address of his workplace, as well as doxxed it’s proprietor ironically it didnt find his actual profile