Idle Sunday thoughts on why so many people love LLMs for 'editing' even though it gives that 'je ne sais qua' of corporate blandness. I'd assumed it was the perceptual con: chatbots keep making generic statements that users interpret as specific It works a bit like a "soup stone". You're the one providing the work, observation, and analysis—the ingredients—while the credit goes to the 'soup stone'. Except the stone is charging you Michelin star prices for the soup
Didn’t the Toot! app on the iPad use to be able to post threads! Feel like I’m being gaslit by my software
“Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian” > The cost of this, says Farid, is that it is almost impossible to know what’s actually going on in AI Remember that bit I wrote ages ago about it being impossible to trust research during a bubble?