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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 “noise 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?
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.
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.
