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<p>I *am* a fan of LLMs (not so much image generators) and
blockchain (not so much crypto or NFTs) in their "best" uses (not
that I or anyone else really knows what that is) in spite of my
intrinsic neoLuddite affect. <br>
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<p>Nevertheless I think Doctorow in his usual acerbic and
penetrating style really nails it well here IMO.</p>
<p>I particularly appreciated his reference/quote to Emily Bender's
"High on Supply" and "word/meaning conflation" in the sense of
"don't mistake an accent for a personality" in the dating scene.</p>
<p>A lot of my own contrarian commments on this forum come from
resisting what Doctorow introduces (to me) as "CritiHype"
(attributed to Lee Vinsel)... the feeling that some folks make a
(a)vocation out of kneejerk criticism. It is much easier to
*poke* at something than to *do* something worthy of being *poked
at*. I appreciate that Doctorow doesn't seem to (by my fairly
uncritical eye) engage in this much himself... which is why I was
drawn into this article... <br>
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<p>I also very much appreciate his quote from Charlie Stross: <br>
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Slow AIs, autonomous artificial lifeforms that consistently do
the wrong thing even when the people who nominally run them
try to steer them in better directions:</i></p>
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<p>I could go on quoting and excerpting and commenting on his whole
article and the myriad links/references he offers up but will curb
my enthusiasm and leave it to the astute FriAM readers to choose
how much to indulge in. It was a pretty good antidote for my own
AI-thusiasm driven by long chats with GPT4 (converging on being
more like long sessions wandering through Wikipedia after the
first 100 hours of engagement).</p>
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