Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop"
Janx@piefed.social 1 day agoI don’t think people are calling all AI slop. But if most actual use of AI is creating slop, people will associate the two. Also, it shows the technology isn’t as groundbreaking or universally applicable as advertised…
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Some people are unambiguously calling all AI slop.
Advertising shits in your brain, but we can’t let the obvious lies of obvious liars obscure how neural networks are a whole new kind of software. Even these stupid chatbots let anyone write the old kinds of software. There’s a guy on Youtube who built a camera to visualize the speed of a laser in flight. Halfway through the video about integrating a hilariously sensitive photodiode and a high-precision motor system, he completely hand-waves the code for everything you actually see.
None of this is going to disappear when the bubble bursts. The dotcom bubble didn’t kill the web. We’ve demonstrated that a DVD’s worth of linear algebra can turn plain English into amateur Python, and suggesting that will soon be lost to history is absurd. Your IDE’s gonna have an autocomplete where Clippy does what you fucking tell him. It’s just not going to be the as-a-service remote computing bullshit these vultures are betting on, because remote computing has been a stupid idea for at least half a century. Spicy autocomplete will be another tool in the menu… like normal autocomplete. We can sneer at people for using either one, but rough standards and working code move the world.