it’s getting to the point where I notice people say it a lot, especially IRL now for whatever reason recently.

And for clarity I’m not in research or anything, so these people just mean ‘LLM/image gen’, not utilities like OCR or (usually not) transcription.

Some have argued it’s just more efficient (which I can kind of get), while others think you’re actively hindering your intelligence somehow.

On the first point:

I’ve tried it occasionally to see how it compares to my own skill, and while it produces a functional result, it’s always very derivative work to the point where you can find things with the exact same names of other ‘public’ (but not libre) works, and often isn’t the ideal solution to what it targets. So I can see how you can get things out of it, but it never felt really that profound to me.

But for the second… isn’t this supposed to be the tool for people to do things they aren’t experienced in? If anything, you probably need to be able to understand how to write pertaining to the task so the token probabilities are biased toward writing from that area.

And even then, if all you end up doing is prompting AI, then wouldn’t you ultimately serve no purpose outside of being glorified QA?

I guess I’m trying to figure out what exactly non-users would be ‘falling behind’ in that affects them more than those who use AI?

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 day ago

    There’s absolutely no doubt that AI democratizes many capabilities that people otherwise would not possess,

    There is so much wrong with that.

    For starters, you don’t possess it. You still can’t do it because you haven’t learned.

    Second, it’s not something you have inherent access too. LLMs are completely unaffordable to anyone using them, which is why the companies are running insane losses. Your use of LLMs depends entirely and fully on the availability of venture capital to burn.

    Third, it was always within your ability to learn. The information to acquire the skills has been available for free.

    Fourth, thanks to LLMs (and enshittification) it is becoming more and more difficult to find and access that free information.

    • BenevolentOne@infosec.pub
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Please send me a web app you have made without the assistance of a computer. I will wait.

      I have a degree in electrical engineering, happy to decode, DM for the address.