“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.
An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.
So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?
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Corporations demand perfection from workers, but AI gets unlimited slack.
LLM users have bottomless patience for inconsistent tools, and no grace left for their colleagues. What if we could flip it around?Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)
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Thanks to @AstroKatie @mlevison @mhoye @Supercamilla @baldur @acuity.design @sophie @beep and everyone not yet on Fedi for the ideas and writing in this week's issue of the Product Picnic.
CM Harrington
in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov • • •@baldur Step one is to stop anthropomorphising LLMs.
LLMs can be wrong. The algorithms cannot ‘make a mistake’. They’re just wrong.
Jeff Grigg
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*Everything* Generative AI models produce is hallucinations. Some happen to look like reality. Fewer still actually match reality.
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in reply to Jeff Grigg • • •@JeffGrigg @octothorpe @baldur I first read this from @tante and I think even featured it in the newsletter at some point - the article even considers that "hallucination" is still anthropomorphizing what LLMs do.
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It's all hallucinations
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in reply to Pavel A. Samsonov • • •ultimate answer: democratic control of the means of production
the managerial class will not (as a whole) give as much slack to humans because we cost more.
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