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You all should read this fantastic post by @onepict about how, largely, AI people just can't leave us the fuck alone. But I'm noticing more and more and more that they get super mad when they wanna shove their #AI creation at you and you simply say, no thanks. That's it. No extra bashing, just, no thanks, and they get super offended. dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-tha… #AIHype #LLM
#ai #llm #aihype @Esther Payne

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Bogdan Buduroiu
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there's literally been a witch-hunt by "never AI" types on Mastodon because Cory Doctorow dared to use ollama to spell check his posts. Idk who is the group getting offended.
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Robert Kingett
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Using an LLM to spell check is all sorts of cringe because there are better applications of machine learning but moreover how do you know they never use an LLM?
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Bogdan Buduroiu
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you're literally proving my point.

Someone: I find small LMs useful for spell checking

Anti-AI types: Nooo, how could you? You're so cringe, what's wrong with you.

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MarjorieR
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we had and still have spellcheckers, which might be labeled AI (machine learning), long before someone had the idea of using LLMs to spell check.
Using a LLM to spellcheck is amazing overuse of resources to do something badly. A spell checker should be trained on your own practice and good quality sources such as dictionaries not on what MAGA idiots write on Facebook, X or Truth Social.
LLMs are general purpose stocastic parrots and have very limited context, they are not trained on how you write, unless supplemented they will not remember how you write.
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Tiota Sram
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also Doctorow didn't just use an LLM for spell-checking, he pivoted to defending LLM use in general and disparaging those against it because he rightly predicted we'd be unhappy about his use of LLMs for spell-checking.

Also: we're unhappy because the technology being pushed on us is harmful in numerous ways. The AI boosters are unhappy because someone won't use the thing they're trying to sell (and/or because they keep getting called out on the harms). These are very different reasons to be unhappy with different levels of validity.

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KFears
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Wait what the fuck? So the guy that has written for years how LLM field is toxic to absolutely everything it touches and is a massive money black hole started using it and doubled down on it? What the fuck is this world, even.
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Robert Kingett
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Yep. He announced it quite proudly in his announcement anniversary post. I can't find it at the moment, but dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral
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Esther Payne
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This is a good post about it as well

brennan.day/an-open-letter-to-…


An Open Letter to Cory Doctorow: Ollama is part of the enshittification!

A response to Cory Doctorow's defense of generative AI, examining the contradictions in supporting Ollama while championing open source principles, and an examination about what purity culture and hypocrisy really means.
brennan.day
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