ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy"

ShinigamiDad "Certified Bluesky Elder Reply Guy"

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Colorado boy in dusty 'ol Oklahoma, hard-core skeptic who envies romantics. B.A. in English (Colorado State '89) that's been wasted on fanfic #SlavaUkraini

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In a way, this message is brought to you by the Glendale Public Library. John Mulaney announces the #Emmy award for Lead Actor in a Drama like only a man's man can.

This! A thousand times this! "AI" is now a vapid, catch-all marketing term that has swept up all the real, value-added machine learning tools that have been developed over the last 30 years, and poured useless LLM plagiarism machine goop all over them!

Maggie McNeill@maggiemcneill.bsky.social

If you don't want the ignorant majority to freak out when machine learning systems are used to do something they are ACTUALLY good for, stop using the same marketing term to describe them as con men use to describe chatbots.

Robert Zemeckis et al didn't do, well <waves hands at *everything*> in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social

James Cameron didn't film a mirror shot by having Linda Hamilton's identical twin sister behind a window precisely copying her every move just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." youtu.be/fYTOK89w8h0?...