By makerhacks on Skatehive
I've got a lot of friends who would like me to change my position, and for good reason, but I am neither an "AI hater" nor an "AI lover". There is a lot to dislike about these LLM tools: Resource usage and environmental impact Employment destruction IP theft Slop Lobbying There are likely things I have missed off that list that definitely should be on there. AI-maximilists don't all fall into the camp of "so what" with these things, but they are willing to overlook them because the ends jutifies the means or some other reason. I got interested in AI when it meant something a bit different, though the hardcore (to me at least) math involved meant unless there was a comfy and well documented SDK or API I had to observe from the sidelines. That usually meant using Python. This is why I often put "AI" to reference things like ChatGPT. It's nerd pedantry but being both a technology and word nerd these things matter to me more than they should. So when I say I love the things that machine le