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call of the void (mander.xyz)
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Pretty callous and myopic responses here.

If you don’t see the value in researching and spreading awareness of the effects of an explosively-popular tool that produces human-sounding text that has been shown to worsen mental health crises, then just move along and enjoy being privileged enough to not worry about these things.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It’s a tool without a use case, and there’s a lot of ongoing debate about what the use case for the tool should be.

    It’s completely valid to want the tool to just be a tool and “nothing more”.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I get it, it’s not meant to be used this way, but like…

    “The purpose of a system is what it does”

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    great (and brief) article.

    there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do"

    lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Literal conversation I had with a coworker earlier:

    Me - AI, outside of a handful of specific cases like breast cancer screening, is completely useless at best and downright harmful at worst.

    Coworker - no AI is pretty good actually, I used ChatGPT to improve my CV.

    Me - did you get the job?

    Coworker -

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