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Pretty callous and myopic responses here.

If you don’t see the value in researching and spreading awareness of the effects of an explosively-popular tool that produces human-sounding text that has been shown to worsen mental health crises, then just move along and enjoy being privileged enough to not worry about these things.

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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s a tool without a use case, and there’s a lot of ongoing debate about what the use case for the tool should be.

It’s completely valid to want the tool to just be a tool and “nothing more”.

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- kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I get it, it’s not meant to be used this way, but like…
  
  “The purpose of a system is what it does”
  
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  - Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    great (and brief) article.
    
    there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”
    
    lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.
    
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- Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Literal conversation I had with a coworker earlier:
  
  Me - AI, outside of a handful of specific cases like breast cancer screening, is completely useless at best and downright harmful at worst.
  
  Coworker - no AI is pretty good actually, I used ChatGPT to improve my CV.
  
  Me - did you get the job?
  
  Coworker -
  
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  - FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Except the CV isn’t the only factor to get a job, so your argument is meaningless
    
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