TIL that the Wikipedia page on "prompt engineering" is an absolute disaster of AI hype.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] even the phrase itself is such a ridiculous piece of hypaganda.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@aud Absolutely. The problem for Wikipedia, though, is that they rather intentionally don't observe burden of proof, so I need to go find a bunch of articles describing that no, the moon isn't made of green cheese, but those resources are in turn *buried* in AI hype. It's all one huge circlejerk.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

Relatedly, if anyone has any articles on why prompt engineering isn't a thing, I'd greatly appreciate the suggestions. Feels like having to write an article on how we know the moon isn't made of green cheese, but cest la vie.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] That's one aspect of Wikipedia that I really, really dislike and seems highly prone to bullshit and abuse.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@aud Yeah, absolutely. I even get it to some degree, it's not the job of a site that summarizes and collects knowledge to adjudicate on veracity, but they way they go about it is... really ripe for abuse.

They list that it's not acceptable per POV policies to spam creationism because the weight of the evidence for evolution is so clear, but in this case, a bunch of con artists just... made something up, and there's not a pre-existing collection of evidence disputing the claim.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@aud (Also one of their fucking examples is that you can't say "genocide" is evil, you have to cite who says it. Like motherfucker, you should be able to say that genocide is evil. There's some base fucking things you should not equivocate on.)

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] THIS THIS THIS.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@aud I mean, in general, Wikipedia feels like what if you took some pretty reasonable guideline, took it to an absurd extreme, made it an ironclad no-exceptions-ever policy, and then assigned moral value to that choice.

[bstacey@icosahedron.website]

@xgranade @aud And most of the "evidence" on that page now is ... random arXiv preprints? Who TF let that happen?

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] oh, jesus. Fucking AI boosters have abused the fuck out of arXiv.