#stopgenai
We know we do that whole "replace billionaire with oligarch to make the headlines read better" thing?
Try it with "AI" and "handful of white billionaires in america"
"A handful of white billionaires in america hacks Australia's Medicare"
"A handful of white billionaires in america in healthcare: what are the risks to the NHS?"
"Epic used a handful of white billionaires in america to write a new game store interface"
Or even... "i used a handful of white billionaires in america to write me some code because I couldn't be bothered to care enough and I'm only in this for the money anyway. I love a handful of white billionaires in america"
Feeling it today...
Them: "hello, can we make this AI slop 'app' we made and put on netlify connect to our internal systems?" (It's just HTML and JS)
Me: "lol, absolutely not"
Well, I finally had an "AI in the workplace" meeting...
As an external contractor, I'm privileged that my opinion matters to them, and I _think_ I've managed to convince them that having an LLM pretend to be human to say nice things to the staff members and customers is a bad idea.
I was also able to demonstrate the privacy/reputation/security issues with some things they have already done, i.e. creating "apps" (static HTML and js webpages) and uploading them to varying services (vercel, nelify, etc.) Is a baaaaad idea.
And after extracting the "what problem is it you're trying to solve" question, another couple of people and myself were able to say "why haven't you asked for that before? It would just be a simple report!"
They may still have "AI" in their future in some form, but I think I've managed to cease the idiocy for now.
"It's only going to get better" was said though, to which I responded "it fundamentally cannot"... And then described the economical, environmental and general exponential growth problem/power requirement of having hundreds of billions of tokens in a model to actually get better.
Did I do well?