Grand Poobah of the Human Web Collective
The sheer degree to which all of these moguls’ ideas are utterly bankrupt and devoid of real human craft & creativity continues to be shocking to me. Like, if any random person on the street got scooped up and put in front of a microphone and said the exact same things, everyone would think they were fucking idiots. Because they somehow are billionaires and are CEOs, they’re geniuses? Spare me, please.
I really don’t understand why lemmy hates technology which regurgitates slop based on data stolen from creators against their will, erodes trust, degrades mental health, wreaks havoc on the labor force, destroys the environment, and temporarily enriches a handful of fake billionaires with fake money…gosh I just don’t understand!
Well the first and most obvious answer is that LLMs need to fall under an extensive regulatory framework which makes quite a number of use cases of them effectively illegal and still other use cases moderated by science-backed harm mitigation. There also need to be systemic corrections to the financial markets & business law such that a company like OpenAI in its recent or present form couldn’t exist at all.
But unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in (at least in America). Future generations will pay for our gross negligence, once again.
Older Gen Z which are essentially baby Millennials, debatable. From what I hear, college today has become a hellscape.
Teens & preteens (Gen Alpha), totally different story. AI slop is cringe. Eww. Possibly appreciated for its entertainment value, especially in directed roleplay (aka Character.ai), but never as “art”.
The kids are alright. And this Jacob dude’s full of it.
OK…and whose fault is that? 😂
I’ve seen this song-and-dance routine before. Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. Big Gun. It’s always victim-blaming with these companies. Always.
My opinion of them could not have gotten any lower, yet somehow with these latest developments, it has.
(Also worth mentioning the author’s entire modus operandi is to promote Google’s Big Tech vision of AI-all-the-things and hence the blog is chock full of one just-so story after another. It’s quite safe to ignore completely as pure propaganda.)
Every year…every decade…the dream of low-code/no-code emerges once again in another form. And while well-built tools with good UX can indeed help non-programmers build “simple” databases and webpages, this is not something that scales to projects which require programming expertise.
Also the examples in this article make no sense. It’s already trivial to compile plain text in accessible formats like Markdown to beautiful, semantic HTML. You can already build systems which take very simple text descriptions of forms and emit actual forms. Heck, I could take input like:
Contact Me form
name
email (required)
appointment date
message
and turn that into an HTML form with zero LLMs involved. But why even do that? Someone, anyone, could drag’n’drop a form together in a couple minutes. Easy.
LLMs are constantly a (poor) solution in search of a problem. Virtually every just-so story someone can share with me about how an LLM supposedly will solve their problem, I can show examples of how else to do it. We are wasting outrageous amounts of time on technologies unfit for purpose.
My whole life I’ve desperately wondered what bank powder tastes like. Finally I’ll get my chance this Yhanskgivong!
My teen has already been through the hype cycle. Was super into chatbots…until they were not. My preteen has never been even tempted, thought it was stupid from the get-go. From the mouth of babes…!
The acceleration of agentic coding and the plummet in software quality & reliability aren’t two separate stories. They’re the same story. Even if a particular bug/problem can’t be traced back to a slop source, the proliferation of slop is itself a net drag on software teams and leads to overall deskilling and focus diversion.
We have a duty as industry professionals to fight back, say no, and make sure companies are aware this “new normal” is completely and utterly unacceptable.
thank you!
Yeah, but the difference is good server mods will try to fight back against that just like they would spam of any sort. Meanwhile, Meta is literally handing people tools to create slop! OpenAI has a slop-only “social” platform! 😵💫
Corporate social media run by Big Tech. This isn’t really a problem on community-run services because we, the people, aren’t putting up with this crap. 😂
Thank god for the fediverse!
Hello from my PF instance!
There could be an interesting version of a “metaverse” in the form of a persistent VR networked world people can have effects on, but a “good” version of it would probably look a lot like the open web & fediverse in topology. Which is unlikely to be built by any corporation because it would lack all of the necessary control & finance they need. 🫠
I’m imagining the meme of the giant bicep guys interlocking arms and it’s Progressivism + Fundamentalism, and right in between is AI Jesus.
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
The OP’s thread you are entering into is talking about the word agenetic.
All good on the wifi front here on Asahi Fedora Linux on Mac mini M1. 😁