My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines.
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego wow that's wild
FWIW at my workplace we all refer to LLMs as "it"s and nobody has ever given that a second thought. So you're not alone
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@minego do they gender it, or just always refer to it by name, or what?
@nyquildotorg They used he/him for it
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@thejikz I think a lot of people just accept what they have been told...
@minego fair!
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@nyquildotorg They used he/him for it
@minego gross
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@nyquildotorg agreed
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego ... What in the everloving fuck...
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@minego ... What in the everloving fuck...
@ZombieGopher right?
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@nyquildotorg They used he/him for it
@minego @nyquildotorg That's messed up.
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@Bumblefish AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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@minego @nyquildotorg That's messed up.
@jocafa
@nyquildotorg Yup.I don't blame the person who did it. The companies pushing this use gendered names and pronouns. They want people to treat it like a person. The lies these companies are pushing is the problem.
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@jocafa
@nyquildotorg Yup.I don't blame the person who did it. The companies pushing this use gendered names and pronouns. They want people to treat it like a person. The lies these companies are pushing is the problem.
@minego @nyquildotorg You know what they *could* do? ... Hire people. Take care of the people they have.
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego I, as non native speaker, have problems with it. What was the form? Everytime I just say "cladue did this and that" and feel bad about it, as they gave it human name and therefore I sound like I'm talking about a human. How would you start a sentence where the LLM was not priorly introduced?
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@nyquildotorg agreed
@minego @nyquildotorg Could be worse, they could go for she/her.
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego my zoologist friends at uni were carefully instructed not to anthropomorphise animals. AI is even riskier, as we may start to care about it, and that will definitely be a selling point.
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego TBF, I know it's a it, and I kept misgendering it as 'he' the three morning I used it. Remember Eliza: "Can you leave the room?".
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@minego @nyquildotorg Could be worse, they could go for she/her.
@minego @nyquildotorg (This is not to say using he/his is great, but every time i see men using feminine pronouns for the slop machine, it’s extra gross)
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@minego I, as non native speaker, have problems with it. What was the form? Everytime I just say "cladue did this and that" and feel bad about it, as they gave it human name and therefore I sound like I'm talking about a human. How would you start a sentence where the LLM was not priorly introduced?
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego weirdest shocking thing i overheard was the following:
A: copilot isn’t really helpful
B: well i found out, if you’re really nice to it, if you say please and thank you a lot and even „dear copilot“ the results become better
A: ah, thanks for that hint.
i never talked to these people again. probably never will.
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego The most disturbing thing to me is that, if we were to genuinely believe that these models were conscious individuals, then using them would be slavery and exploitation. Thankfully they're not conscious, of course, but the fact that so many people blithely use these models while pretending they are (or soon will be) conscious is still incredibly disturbing and says something about us.
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My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".
Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.
I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.
I miss actual intelligence
@minego What else would you call it?
