If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

"Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand."

I have an AI booster in family circle who has explained to me that AI could lift the “drudgery” of writing… and then proceeds to list the fun parts of writing. Which leaves me to like format the book and do intense copy editing on some shit I didn’t even write?

this is, I think, one of the inherent problems with LLMs using natural language interfaces: they are a statistical tool *that looks like* a logical tool statistical approaches can be a useful way to find related information! BUT for it to be useful you have to *know that's what it's doing*

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

@clairewillett.bsky.social Firefox updated a while ago to not need to fiddle with all that! Just one switch in settings to turn off all current and future ai junk blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/h...

"broke out of its containment" is just a lie. they removed the guardrails, per LATER IN THIS ARTICLE IT DID NOT BREAK OUT OF SHIT WHY IS ABC LYING FOR AN AD FOR SAM ALTMAN