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Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

You knew what he meant. Don’t be pedantic. Having “a back and forth conversation with an AI, where I also made manual edits at times, to iteratively produce on an image” is too verbose, and “collaborate” sums it up nicely.

Especially since the conversation with the AI is literally in plain English. Do you talk to your power drill in English? Or table saw? Or toaster? No, but you do talk to an AI and have a conversation.

Just because it’s not “intelligent” or “self aware”—or other things you definitely don’t want it to be anyways—doesn’t mean you aren’t having a conversation or collaborating. Those words apply just fine.

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Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No, they fucking don’t. These differences matter a lot especially because LLMs behave so human-like (as it was trained on us) and we got way, WAY too many people already treating them like equals, work buddies, friends or even fucking falling in love with a tool (ever heard multiple people genuinely fall in love with a power drill or a toaster, or killing themselves because the table saw told them they’re the messiah?). Words matter, especially in regards to what we call “Medienkompetenz” in german (lit. “media competency”, meaning bring educated in how to safely consume and use any kind of media or digital tool). And even more especially with AI, where not just the salesmen but even the tool itself tells us it can do shit it certainly can not while trying to abuse our emotional weaknesses.

Collaboration (merriam-webster.com) “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor”

You do not “collaborate” with a fucking toaster. If you think you do with an AI then your Medienkompetenz is lacking and you will eventually, even accidentally, put too much trust in what is essentially a game of chance and the machine will fuck you over, on which it will just say “You’re absolutely right!” while you have to witness all the consequences of your action (an AI can’t take responsibility because it’s just a bunch of complex math). The fact this tool uses natural language doesn’t change anything except your impression of it.

Stop subtly treating LLMs like a god damn entity, you’re fooling yourself.

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- Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I am sorry. I take it back. You are correct. Words only have one meaning, and that meaning can never be stretched to mean new things.
  
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- mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  These differences matter a lot especially because LLMs behave so human-like
  
  To be pedantic, LLM’s don’t behave like us, they pretend to behave like us. They’re really just complicated auto-correct.
  
  Neural networks have more promise to eventually behave like us, but that’s not what the AI craze is trying to propogate.
  
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