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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

Every now and then I see a guy barging in a topic bringing nothing else than "I asked [some AI service] and here's what it said", followed by 3 paragraphs of AI-gened gibberish. And then when it's not well received they just don't seem to understand.

It's baffling to me. Anyone can ask an AI. A lot of people specifically don't, because they don't want to battle with its output for an hour trying to sort out from where it got its information, whether it represented it well, or even whether it just hallucinated half of it.

And those guys come posting a wall of text they may or may not have read themselves, and then they have the gall to go "What's the problem, is any of that wrong?"... Dude, the problem is you have no fucking idea if it's wrong yourself, have nothing to back it up, and have only brought automated noise to the conversation.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blindsight mentioned!

The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

This has been my biggest problem with it. It places a cognitive load on me that wasn't there before, having to cut through the noise.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is blindsight worth a read? It seemed interesting from the brief description.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh yes, I think Peter Watts is a great author. He's very good at tackling high concept ideas while also keeping it fun and interesting. Blindsight has a vampire in it in case there wasn't already enough going on for you 😁

Unrelated to the topic at hand, I also highly recommend Starfish by him. It was the first novel of his I read. A dark, psychological thriller about a bunch of misfits working a deep sea geothermal power plant and how they cope (or don't) with the situation at hand.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My blindsight book finally arrived at the library, gonna start on it today!

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Hope you enjoy! It's getting referenced so much these days, I think I'm due for a reread myself.