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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh
The NerveCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnistReplying to @floofloof@lemmy.ca
Work keeps insisting we use it and I keep telling them to fuck off.
I get more done than my colleagues BECAUSE i don’t use the not-actually-AI “AI” tool.
Replying to @BillCheddar@lemmy.world
Just use it for pointless reasons. Burn tokens the way they want you to. Money is the only language they speak, and models are getting expensive.
Replying to @Sintinium@lemmy.zip
What tf are tokens?
Replying to @ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
When you send a message to a chatbot, it cuts it up to little pieces made up of a few letters, assigns numbers to them, does math, and gives you back a bunch of other numbers that it translates back to pieces and puts together into a sentence.
You pay for the chatbot by the amount of little pieces in and little pieces out. The little pieces are the tokens.
Replying to @HK65@sopuli.xyz
I wonder if they make a fortune off engagement padding.
Replying to @ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Oh definitely. The whole “reasoning” thing was just sending the answer back as a prompt a few times in different structures, and it was of course all billed