HeavenlyPossum@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social

I had to attend mandatory training on the use of “AI” in the workplace today and two of the rules they told us are:

1) we can’t use AI to do our work for us, such as by asking it to reach conclusions that we might pass off as our own work, and

2) we can use AI when we have more data than is reasonable for a person to analyze, by feeding the data into an LLM and asking it to identify patterns for us.

When I tried to explain that these are literally the same thing, and that the latter is just pretending to be the sci-version of the former, the instructor got really uncomfortable and changed the subject.

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HeavenlyPossum@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social

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It’s hard to convey the scale and scope of how cooked a generation of people are by LLM slop.

“You can use AI to improve efficiency but make sure you double-check all its output to make sure it isn’t just hallucinating bullshit” thanks that’s actually more work and thus less efficient than not using an LLM at all.

“You have to double-check LLM output, but also if the task is too complicated or complex to figure out on your own, you should use an LLM” thanks but if it’s too complicated to figure out on your own, then you can’t double-check the output.

Just absolutely cooked.