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My #ActuallyAutistic friends, if you would be so kind to check out this post…

For the past decade and a half, I’ve already been treating most online content as β€œnoise and not information.”

How has it been for you?

I’m saying this because not only this new AI hype was ridiculous to be since it’s beginning (because of course I was way ahead of the general population in following the advance of LLMs for the past five years), even way before that online content and discourse had already degraded into a never ending stream of buzzwords and marketing gobbledygook. To me at least.

So I’m imploring @actuallyautistic peeps, how long since you have been (if that is the case) disillusioned with whatever online content had to offer?

#AutisticMe

@CynAq

There's a lot of crap out there, but I'm not sure that the rise of LLM ("AI") is going to make much of a difference.

Hollywood used to be my go-to example for crap that people readily believe:

* Hollywood Law. Trial by ambush: a lawyer brings on a last minute witness who resolves the lawsuit decisively and conclusively, and everybody is fine with this. No discussion of discovery, or cross-examination.

* Hollywood tech: search for "2 idiots, 1 keyboard" and weep. This scene is stupid on very many levels, but even people not versed into tech told me that it is not possible to use a keyboard in this way. I wish I had been a fly in the writing room when this gigantically stupid idea came out of their rear end.

* Hollywood sex: organs magically passing through layers of fabric. Foreplay ain't a thing, etc.

I am disillusioned with a lot of the stuff out there, but I still manage to find good sources. I'm not a lawyer, for instance, but I find that LegalEagle on YouTube is a good source, and so is Popehat (Ken White) in the fediverse and on substack.

@actuallyautistic

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To which I would add -
Hollywood alien computers: Yes, I know nothing about these aliens, their computer architecture, the operating system, or their defenses and weapons, but I can hack into their systems and shut everything down at the most appropriate dramatic time, because I am UberGeek!

I'm looking at you, Jeff Goldblum.

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