Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!
You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shouting at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias D…Pivot to AI
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •a high doom
in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •@ai6yr some of the kids get it.
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •bookmarking this one! Love the cocaine analogy!
“Coincidentally, Natalie Ponte on LinkedIn posted today: try replacing “ai” with “cocaine” in all the posts you read about it. it’s pretty funny
Let’s try it!
“My cocaine skeptic friends are all nuts, they’ll be left behind.”
“Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.” Checks out.
Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.”
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •It's quite insightful!
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If you've ever read much L Ron Hubbard, or other charlatans of that sort, it's striking how similar the style is.
Elaborate word salad that really SOUNDS plausibly like it might be getting around to something interesting or meaningful to say, but the longer you read/listen the more it just adds up to so much nonsense.
Which is terrifying, because the people prone to fall for that and project profound beliefs onto it, now have their own personal nutjob jeebus in their pocket to consult all day every day without limit.
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in reply to Violet Madder • • •@violetmadder @sanityinc @baldur
Amen! It is like church and bible study to the Baptists
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Thank you for this! I'm sending it to my cousin who, as she says, "Hurting me? I have conversations with AI every day. It's not hurting me. It's encouraging me."
I believe she uses chatgpt. She's been using it for her health problems that she now is obsessed with. She's diagnosed herself with blood clots and POTS. It's seriously messing with her mind.
Thank you!
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •this is one of the first things I noticed about using LLMs and talked about it as such for a while.
It’s gambling addiction Programmer Edition and that recognition of that fact made any respect I had at my last org just plummet once I realized how hooked the techbro leadership was with their new favorite slot machine.
It’s no wonder the biggest AI hyper at work were also the same people who were super into cryptocurrency. 🙄
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •Pigeons caught in an intermittent reward cycle.
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#enshittification seems to always go for the addiction cycle. Manufacturing cognitive crutches, cults, zealots, & addicts.
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The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •But these days, I am starting to think that maybe it could be even much more of an empty hype than I ever imaged yet.
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More good thoughts along these lines:
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •JATB - Just another Tech Bubble.
Bubble grow until they pop.
Eventually those massive AI data centres will be repurposed or dismantlesed.
Companies will fail and investors will lose money. People will lose their jobs.
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •It’s the selection bias you also have on Instagram that they’re trying to build an industry out of.
Sure this picture of the baby is cute. Not pictured are all the times the baby shat the bed.
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in reply to BrianKrebs • • •It took my own personal reflection upon the words and conversation (just like it would with a real human) to realize the BS for what it was. Not worth my time.
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