Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart I already don't care for it terribly much, but seeing google vomit an entire page of a computer taking clumsy stabs with a lack of links to the sources it citied to make that clumsy guess is so goddamn irritating.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@da_667 Part of this is to demonstrate the magnitude of negative sentiment. Truly, I've not seen a disconnect between consumer preference and corporate strategy this wide since, I dunno, Windows 8 removed the Start menu. But that change didn't endanger the internet or, like, the power grid.

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart I do have to admit there have been some instances where I've passed code to microsoft's LLM, whatever they're calling it now to help me understand how certain bits of code work, and it can be useful as a force multiplier, but I can't stand that its being forced upon us all everywhere we go. Like, I have no idea where the model got its data. In google's case, It could have consumed a well thought-out bit of documentation, a blog post, or a collection of shitposts from Reddit.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@da_667 I would say code is where the utility is clearest, but the cost of making the tool valuable is utterly bananas compared to the value—and that's for quite the niche, to say nothing of everywhere else it's being mindlessly jammed.

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart I cannot fathom the fact that there are companies that are like "yah, sure, spinning up our own private reactors and diverting major water supplies to power a datacenter are a perfectly rational venture to create a computer program that cannot tell you how many r's there are in the word strawberry."

[codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org]

@mttaggart I've come to like AI as a side chat kinda thing to help me with basic grunt work. But I HATE AI in my editor auto completing stuff for me