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call of the void (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 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”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

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

“The purpose of a system is what it does”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

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 -