Cory Doctorow on nostr

Once again: the act of prompting a sentence generator to create a rebuttal-shaped series of sentences *does not impart understanding to the prompter.* In the dialog between someone who's written somet...

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Emailing a stranger a blob of unverified AI output is not a form of dialogue - it's an attempt to coerce a stranger into unpaid labor on your behalf. Strangers are not your "human in the loop" whose expensive time is on offer to painstakingly work through the plausible sentences a chatbot made for you for free.

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Cory Doctorow · 4w

Remember: even the AI companies will tell you that the work of overseeing an AI's output is valuable labor. The fact that you can costlessly (to you) generate infinite volumes of verbose, plausible-seeming topical sentences in no way implies that the people who actually think about things and then w...

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary · 4w

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Jürgen Hubert · 4w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqhykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fschugpy It's the latest iteration of "Watch this two-hour video, which will counter all your arguments!" Flooding the zone with time-wasting bullshit, rather than actual engagement with the d...