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1. Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:47:12 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

   If you're writing a technical deep dive blog post about LLMs and don't start with the fact that there's still no evidence as to their utility and the fact that there's still no ethical way to train them, you've so fundamentally undercut your own post that there's really no point to it other than building hype.

   • Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:46:45 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Writing positive shit about AI in 2025 shows at a *bare minimum* that you haven't done the research before you start trying to sell your expertise. More realistically, it often means you don't care about the truth of what you write.

     Either way, the choice to push AI hype in 2025 undermines everything else that you say and do.

   • Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:46:46 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     If you're a tech influencer, and you're still using your platform to push AI in 2025, you've had every chance to change course. I absolutely do not take a positive impression from the choice to keep pushing that bullshit after *years* of debunking.

     :debian: 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 :opensuse: repeated this.
   • Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:46:49 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     I swear, 2025 is going to have to be when I stop being even a little bit nice about "AI." We've had almost three years of this hype cycle, and we've got fucking nothing to show for it but theft of artistic labor at truly staggering scales, massive increases in energy usage, and mind-boggling wealth transfer to an end times cult.

   • Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:46:50 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     If you want to claim that a technology is useful that either takes empirical evidence or some theory that would predict utility. Neither exists for LLMs.

     Everything written about them that's not critical is just optimistic fluff at *best*.