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@kboyd something like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands

@nazokiyoubinbou Yes, local would be the way to go, but it still needs to be trained. If that can be done, it'd be great.

@bewilderbeast23 I did. Anything where a small artistic endeavor cannot afford human work but a machine could do it easily. Here's an example:
I used to use it for album covers. Music makes no money, and I can't pay a decent sum for an actual artist. Now I make my own covers, mostly my own photos. I already mentioned translation. Again, something I couldn't pay for.
One NOT good one is thinking it's your girl (or boy)friend. I hope that phenomenon disappears fast, it's dangerous.

@holzchopf Yes, no question about that! I don't think it's worth my time to hate on it publicly, even though I have the same objections most have. It is IMO neither as good or as bad as most people say. Two extreme fringes, and here it's the negative one.
Maybe more an echo chamber?

@nazokiyoubinbou Yes, Mastodon is a guaranteed anti-AI audience except for programmers who love using the tech but don't try to talk it up. AS I said, it's a technology and I neither hate or love it. The current implimentations like Gemini can do impressive things but are they worthy of attention? Not always. For example, it ingested a short story of mine and generated a two-person podcast discussing it. It sounded very much like two real people discussing the story. I didn't post that anywhere

@pieist I think I do recall that! Sugar Snaps! No, SMACKS!

@nazokiyoubinbou Yes, I realize that. My question isn't "do you hate (or like) AI", but what do you think of the use of "AI-powered" as a flex, a quality? I think you're right, that investors will be impressed, but that a lot of potential users will dislike it, even if the product is just what they need. (The "powered" claim is meaningless, regardless.

@holzchopf @tagirijus In the sense that it will eventually disappear as did "with Blockchain", one could probably say "bubble", if that's what you mean?

Funny thing, no average non-technical person probably even heard of AJAX and CSS, but these revolutionized the web, tho not always for the best.

@androcat @zebulonmysterioso Sad, but also true.

@zebulonmysterioso One is what Google translate has been doing forever (before we were saturated with AI and LLM terms).

I have been collaborating with a Brazilian musician for several years. We share no language. We comminicate via Gmail, which automatically translates the messages, passing them betwen English and Brazilian Portugese.

Asking for explanations of some things is also a good use. Of course you have to check for accuracy.

@acdha @liztai Good point, too that using an LLM isn't actually "powering "it, but the tool is used and for a good purpose, I think.

@nazokiyoubinbou

The general public think all chatbots are ChatGPT and have no notion of LLM or "AI", so yes.

@chad I protest the use of the I in AI, as it is not intelligent in any definition I know of. But here, it's just another adjective, and I think a mistake to "brag" about it.

@hostia I agree, as someone else posts, the term is bogus to begin with, as if blockchain-powered meant something, even then the blockchain may have been used in the profuct.

@jimbob To the person who replied Get a fucking grip, I say, that's not respectful disagreement.

@jimbob Well, most marketspeak is either a lie or an exageration, right? But the use of the term shouldn't be considered a GoodThing in your ads.

I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)

Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.

@futurebird

@sundogplanets years ago, I read a SF story about the population permanently stressed because at night the saw the ICBM constantly moving like fireflies.