if they weren’t serious, there wouldn’t be a deal.

they, the EU, are/is serious.

the Belgians are just being greedy little cunts.

…so business as usual ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sure, and that works at small scales and as long as no change is required.

when either of those two change (large projects where interdependent components become inevitable and frequent updates are necessary) it becomes impossible to use AI for basically anything.

any change you make then has to be carefully considered and weighed against it’s consequences, which AIs can’t do, because they can’t absorb the context of the entire project.

look, I’m not saying you can’t use AI, or that AI is entirely useless.

I’m saying that using AI is the same as any other tool; use it deliberately and for the right job at the right time.

the big problem, especially in commercial contexts, is people using AI without realizing these limitations, thinking it’s some magical genie that can everything.

yes, that’s exactly the point of everything I’ve said:

to an inexperienced user/developer/admin the output LLMs produce look perfectly valid, and for relatively trivial tasks they might even work out…but when it gets more specialized it fails spectacularly and it gets extremely obvious just how limited of a system it really is.

which is why there is so much pushback from professionals. actually that’s pretty much all professionals, not just in IT.

yeah, no… that’s not at all what i said.

i didn’t say “AI doesn’t work”, i said it works exactly as expected: producing bullshit.

i understand perfectly well how to get it to spit out useful information, because i know what i can and cannot ask it about.

I’d much rather not use it, but it’s pretty much unavoidable now, because of how trash search results have become, specifically for technical subjects.

what absolutely doesn’t work is asking AI to perform highly specific, production critical configurations on live systems.

you CAN use it to get general answers to general questions.

“what’s a common way to do this configuration?” works well enough.

“fix this config file for me!” doesn’t work, because it has no concept of what that means in your specific context. and no amount of increasingly specific prompts will ever get you there. …unless “there” is an utter clusterfuck, see the OP top of chain (should have been more specific here…) for proof…

no, AI just sucks ass with any highly customized environment, like network infrastructure, because it has exactly ZERO capacity for on-the-fly learning.

it can somewhat pretend to remember something, but most of the time it doesn’t work, and then people are so, so surprised when it spits out the most ridiculous config for a router, because all it did was string together the top answers on stack overflow from a decade ago, stripping out any and all context that makes it make sense, and presents it as a solution that seems plausible, but absolutely isn’t.

LLMs are literally design to trick people into thinking what they write makes sense.

they have no concept of actually making sense.

this is not an exception, or an improper use of the tech.

it’s an inherent, fundamental flaw.

tesla/spaceX have literal teams whose only job it is to keep this moron from driving the company into the ground.

he’s an idiot.

i do agree with the sentiment, but i think we’re largely okay on that front:

among the big problems with reddit for the past, say, 10-ish years, was the consolidation of subreddit moderation in relatively few, extremely influential mods. some of which where widely known to be assholes of one kind or another…

the very design of lemmy provides a kind of natural resistance to this phenomenon by spreading communities over many distinct servers, with distinct admins and moderation teams.

it’s by no means perfect, but the simple fact that communities can choose to leave servers that have become unsuitable to hosting them (like we’ve already seen with some of the star trek comms leaving .world…i think that’s the server they left?), it becomes more difficult for power tripping admins or mods to utterly ruin communities. it still causes major disruptions, of course, but i think it’s a decent trade-off!

having already seen that part of the design in action; I’m really not that worried about lemmy turning into reddit.

what’s much more concerning is eventually being overrun by sophisticated, hostile discourse manipulators like bot and troll farms. (if we ever get big enough to attract those…)

while decentralization provides resilience against enemies within, I’m not so sure it does the same for enemies without: coordinating bot defense and using proper authentication for end-users to ensure that the people talking are actually, you know, people, is probably going to be extremely challenging… eventually, at least…

Windows itself already splits those up in security and feature updates…

i mean…an app directly copying a black mirror episode (but almost exclusively targeting a specific demographic) does ring some very, VERY loud alarm bells…

like, this is literally the plot of nosedive.

it’s a social credit system.

and none of the people even know they HAVE a score, so it’s somehow even worse than the fictional scenario.

this will, absolutely, hurt innocents and it will do so by design.

“fuck them innocents!”…just because they happen to be men?

how is that anything other than misandrist?

how is that defensible?

how is doxxing, mass libel, and targeted harassment a solution to sexism and rape culture?

I’d be really interested in hearing anything about how this is supposed to help women, because i struggle to see how sowing massive, unearned distrust between men and women is going to make anyone any safer…

I’m really, REALLY glad that the GDPR would nuke this sort of nonsense from orbit…uploading pictures of strangers, for the explicit purpose of gossiping about them behind their backs, spreading awful rumors?

what. the. actual. fuck. is wrong with you people?

and i don’t mean women, or men: i mean americans and their total disregard for privacy and digital safety. what the hell…

no one said it did:

it can still be the worst crime of this century, because last century had even worse crimes at the same time as this one.

is there a c/rareinsults yet?

because this belongs there!