I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, having been in IT for about 45 years, and using LLMs both casually and professionally in various ways for quite a while -- but it is really hard to get away from the brain's natural tendency toward anthropomorphism of... well, almost everything... I try to catch myself and self-correct, but I still find myself using "human" language around these chatbot systems from time to time.
For non-technical people, drawing that distinction is even harder since they don't have the vocabulary to describe what LLMs really are, nor the insight to be able to distinguish human-produced output from machine-produced output a lot of the time.
The press really should be educating the general public here but... a lot of the mainstream media seems to have completely abdicated any responsibility at this point :(
But can we? Or, more specifically, can the media do better than this? Day after day, they find new ways to fail at the most basic aspects of the job they should be doing. Yes, demand better from them, but at this point how could anyone expect better?
And did we all ask for this? "Hey, could you please use up all our electricity and what's left of our water generating child pornography?" No, we did not. A handful of billionaires thought it would be fun and profitable, and now here we are. These assholes should NOT have the money and power they have.
raises an interesting question. People have free speech under the First Amendment. Corporations do, under the misreading in Citizen's United about what corporation personhood is. Does a non-sentient LLM have First Amendment rights? I'd say no, and if the corporation behind it won't take responsibility for what it says, I'd say Grok can be sued for, inter alia, slander when one is falsely portrayed as nude.
Partisan outrage farming. The produce is lacking any real nutritional value, but provides emotive evergy to feed Musk Derangement Syndrome which is a proxy to Trump Derangenent Syndrome which is a proxy to liberal unresolved childhood issues.
A straight question Frank won't be answering: Should there be a machine on the internet that generates pornographic images of real children on demand?
The correct answer is "no", of course, but I'm betting what we'll get from Frank is either: 1) Complete silence because he can never answer a straight question, or 2) A cloud of squid ink and misdirection and a lengthy rant about Hunter Biden's laptop.
I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, having been in IT for about 45 years, and using LLMs both casually and professionally in various ways for quite a while -- but it is really hard to get away from the brain's natural tendency toward anthropomorphism of... well, almost everything... I try to catch myself and self-correct, but I still find myself using "human" language around these chatbot systems from time to time.
For non-technical people, drawing that distinction is even harder since they don't have the vocabulary to describe what LLMs really are, nor the insight to be able to distinguish human-produced output from machine-produced output a lot of the time.
The press really should be educating the general public here but... a lot of the mainstream media seems to have completely abdicated any responsibility at this point :(
"We can do better than this."
But can we? Or, more specifically, can the media do better than this? Day after day, they find new ways to fail at the most basic aspects of the job they should be doing. Yes, demand better from them, but at this point how could anyone expect better?
Eliminating the fallacious legal concept of corporate personhood is the only path to executive accountability.
"Legacy media lies." Yeah, well, my eyes don't, and they've now seen some truly reprehensible content via xAI. Sickening stuff.
And did we all ask for this? "Hey, could you please use up all our electricity and what's left of our water generating child pornography?" No, we did not. A handful of billionaires thought it would be fun and profitable, and now here we are. These assholes should NOT have the money and power they have.
raises an interesting question. People have free speech under the First Amendment. Corporations do, under the misreading in Citizen's United about what corporation personhood is. Does a non-sentient LLM have First Amendment rights? I'd say no, and if the corporation behind it won't take responsibility for what it says, I'd say Grok can be sued for, inter alia, slander when one is falsely portrayed as nude.
Partisan outrage farming. The produce is lacking any real nutritional value, but provides emotive evergy to feed Musk Derangement Syndrome which is a proxy to Trump Derangenent Syndrome which is a proxy to liberal unresolved childhood issues.
A straight question Frank won't be answering: Should there be a machine on the internet that generates pornographic images of real children on demand?
The correct answer is "no", of course, but I'm betting what we'll get from Frank is either: 1) Complete silence because he can never answer a straight question, or 2) A cloud of squid ink and misdirection and a lengthy rant about Hunter Biden's laptop.