Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen on Nostr: I wish #tech geeks who are head over heels with #GenAI would realize that they sound ...

I wish #tech geeks who are head over heels with #GenAI would realize that they sound the most horrifying and repulsive when they're enunciating their fondest hopes. It's very difficult to see any good side to the "generative AI" craze when the reasons they cite for why we should be enthusiastic for LLM sludge are terrifyingly unconvincing, Sirius-Cybernetics crap. There's a certain highly offensive notion of "user friendliness" that I blame on Steve Jobs's noxious influence: the user is assumed to be a clueless boob (i.e. like the usual corporate manager who makes software purchasing decisions) who must at all costs be protected from any deep understanding of the machinery they're using. This has fostered the bizarre assumption that everyone ought to be reduced to the same stultified form of interaction with computers, i.e. imitation "natural language" conversations with LLM sludge.