“Part of the internet broke. They’re working on it.”
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I was talking with someone not particularly computer literate about AI. He was quite dismayed at how factually inaccurate it is about so many things. He asked me, as a much more computer literate person, if I could build him a different better AI system. I was like "Dude, I build websites. No."
How many techie types have had someone come to them and say something like "Hey, you know tech thing XYZ? You know how it sucks? Well I've got a great idea: make a BETTER one! So what do you say? You whip it up in an afternoon, I'll handle marketing, and we'll be rich!"
Like they really thought that the issue is just that no-one can see the flaws. They thought that the fix is super easy and they're just the first person clever enough to see it.
No one can, because they (LLMs) are fundamentally not suited to the tasks people try to use them for.
Imagine trying to explain this 20 or 30 years ago.
"Yeah you know that website that sells books? One of their computers crashed and took half the Internet out."
Thankfully, my family understands that stuff on the internet is "someone else's computer", so it's easy to explain why something is down - "It's their fault"
It’s so light! https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg
Of course @ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de, the Internet doesn't weigh anything.
"A Weird Symptom"
"Aliens With Shutguns"
Me trying to figure out what goog leapis is.
Is it like Lapis lazuli?
AWS is that cloud everyone kept going on about before AI was the big buzzword see this is actually your fault tech literate illiterate (Oops, auto correct) audience for putting faith in powers you couldn't hope to understand and much less control.
Hey man, the tech literate people were saying this:

It's the VCs and the marketing people who were pushing cloud services as the next big thing.
I found success just saying Alexa wasn't working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?
It seems like a lot of people are not even aware of AWS, which leads to an underestimation how badly the world is infected with Amazon.
There’s enough commercials for aws (on consumer channels for some reason) for them to know an aws issue is not something you can help with.
Really? Making fun of average people not knowing what AWS is, this is considered programming humor now? https://xkcd.com/2501/
No, the fun part is them trying to understand what aws is, because why should they know what that is? Nobody outside of devops knows how it works.
Its actually making fun of our own culture, talking about these things as if others just know what they are.
When my car mechanic starts talking to me what they want to fix, I dont understand anything and just nod along.
Oh I can see that in the meme now, thank you for explaining the joke.
In my defense some of the top comments really didn't sound like that.
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