He seems fairly prone to ego stroking, which internet goers would typically label as narcissistic.

Kind of the target audience for the sycophant machine

See the knitting debacle… where SciShow put out an episode about the science of knitting which was poorly researched and it was clear that they had consulted zero knitters.

I’ve always really liked SciShow - to the point I’ve assigned some episodes to my students - but it’s just embarrassing when it would have been trivially easy to hit up Ravelry and run the video past people who won’t call yarn “string.”

some of the recent episodes were quite sloppy. they just stuck to the original format.

Yeah I mentioned that incident elsewhere in this thread. It was my only time seeing his content and his response was enough to get me to not watch more. That video was so obnoxiously paternalistic and people were rather mild in how they pointed it out. He just doubled down.

I’m on your side, but replace AI or social media with “meth” in your argument and see how that logic works. (Becoming easily addicted to something vs. avoiding something [because using it would rapidly become addictive])

What are you using it for during the 1%??

Personally I’ve found that ai is fantastic at pulling files off my phone cause I’m a lazy shit… Iv trained it so that when I tell it “do the thing” it pulls all the pictures off my phone and backs them up.

It’s fun, whimsical, and while I could do it a host of other ways. This is just more fun.

Which is honestly kinda what I see as one of the better use cases for local models. Sure you could do the same thing with a script, or by hand.

But it’s not as /fun/ as having a little robot butler that slings one liners from various cartoons that you don’t have to prepick as it enacts your will.

…so your good use case for AI is running a task apps have been able to do automatically for 20 years…?

It’s like buying a robot butler to manually turn off the lights

Yes we did that with smart bulbs. We aren’t against the robot butler.

That’s what I’m saying. The butler is overkill for a solved problem

Just have the ai make the script. It’s going to go off the rails one day and you’ll regret that whimsy.