I didn’t read the linked article—too horrible to contemplate.
But the long post is definitely worth a read regardless of your position on #genA.
https://infosec.exchange/@jrdepriest/113606511943603350
Infosec ExchangeJ. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF: (@jrdepriest@infosec.exchange)Part of me feels dumb for resisting genAI.
It's literally built into almost everything, now.
The new Cyber Monday laptop I bought to replace my old Windows 11 incompatible one has a built-in NPU for AI. Google is pushing Gemini almost every time I use Google Assistant. Half of the apps I use have magic AI buttons and widgets.
I've already been using it to edit photos and create simple Python functions.
Why *not* go all in?
Is having an AI tool auto-detect and blur the background in a photo so bad? I don't know about you, but I suck at using the magic lasso with a mouse. The AI tool can even trace around fur or hair.
Is having an AI spit out complicated regexes wrong? I once spent an afternoon hand-crafting a series of regexes to detect all possible non-routeable IP addresses. A genAI could give me results in seconds.
What about using it as a Stack Overflow "search engine" to go ahead and write your code? It's faster than running two dozen searches and reading through the pages yourself. The Google AI summary gives you a working sample almost immediately.
I'm a writer in my spare time, but I draw at an elementary school level. I'd love to have illustrations.
I can steal the style of any artist and create brand new art for my stories. Well, not "new" really. It's regurgitated art. I might have to try multiple times to get an image without artifacts that a real artist would never include.
But it beats finding someone who matches your vibe, spending time with them to discuss what you want. It beats all the *waiting*, right? The back and forth of sketches and drafts.
It beats paying someone.
That's the truth of it. It's "free". It only costs denying the real artist credit and compensation. It only costs furthering the destruction of the environment via power hungry GPUs crunching impossibly large matrices.
But it's right there.
At the push of a button and a well engineered prompt.
It's right there.
When I can't think of the right word, it's a reverse dictionary and thesaurus that can take a definition and give me a list of options to pick from.
If I have writer's block, it could even write a full first draft for me.
"Hey ChatGPT, please take this outline of a story and expand it to a story with 1500 words in the style of paranormal fiction with horror elements written at a 10th grade reading level. Narrator should be third person omniscient. The twist villain reveal shouldn't happen until the last three paragraphs, but there should be at least six occurrences of foreshadowing scattered throughout. No excessive gore."
I would be an editor instead of a writer.
Clean it up, verify consistent verb tense, change some language or word choices.
Easy.
And I'm still doing *some* writing.
Right?
Or.
It could write in my own style.
It could be me.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/my-dead-father-is-writing-me-notes-again/
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/you-can-now-ask-claude-to-mimic-your-writing-style
Feed it 45 years of my writing and let it *become* me.
I don't even need to think that much.
It's the death of creativity.
It matters to the creators and artists.
It matters to those of us that are feeding the machine.
It should matter that eventually there will be nothing more to feed them.
They are already eating their own shit and damaging their models, becoming worse over the instead of better.
It's not going to stop them.
People are getting fired *right now* to be replaced by subpar, unthinking, context-free, lying chat bots.
It's good for shareholder value.
It's easy.
It's fast.
It's free.
The fact that it is an environmental disaster that is often wrong doesn't matter.
The fact that it will run out of new material to eat doesn't matter.
It makes them money **right now**.
That's all that matters.
#genAI #LLM