I just went to a workshop for job seekers who need special help.
The moment I asked about resumes: "Oh, ChatGPT will fix all of that for you!"
They were downright gushing about it.
I know in an abstract way, the average reading level is something around 5th grade, but I'm not directly exposed to it much. A few attendees were really struggling with the booklets we'd been handed.
This "AI" technology was being hyped to them like a godsend. When writing a cover letter feels something like being asked to encode ritual alien poetry in hieroglyphics, somebody who's never been able to produce a properly structured paragraph before must feel tantalizingly liberated. A whole new door opens!
As I sat watching "AI" treated as a miracle cure, the fact I was biting back the bile must have shown on my face past my mask-- the person doing my paperwork remarked on the "look" I gave her (well, not her directly, I tried to aim it at the table). I told her this stuff is 'hallucinating' around 16%-48% of the time, and she blinked at me. Blankly. I didn't even try to bring up any of the weaponization, propaganda etc etc etc. She shrugged and said, "Oh, but I always review it. I know how to assess what it gives me." And for her purposes, she's probably right. Mostly. She's an expert in her role and good at what she does-- but the people she serves??
How many people out there not only aren't equipped to assess the slop's output, but haven't got the slightest CLUE it could be unreliable and even needs to be assessed in the first place? The digital oracle knows best. Computers are smart!
Gah.
#"AI"
#AI
#LLM
#slop
Violet Madder
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