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1. Sin Vega (sinvega@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 09:20:54 JST Sin Vega

   Since everyone is obsessed with the "ai" chatbots, here is my thought about how depressingly likely they are to bleed into many, many things they shouldn't.

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Sin Vega (sinvega@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 09:20:57 JST Sin Vega

     in reply to

     these chatbots don't write well, but they do a good statistical analysis to figure out how to get to "this is the kind of sentence that meets the established metric". Teachers are right to be worried, because this is exactly how they've been training children to write for decades instead of actually teaching them.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Sin Vega (sinvega@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 09:21:11 JST Sin Vega

     in reply to

     It's not the teachers' fault, obviously, it's neoliberalism's for turning education into an industry that can be measured and tested with targets and league tables, an attitude that's directly responsible for most of the failures of our public services.

     But it's partly why people are finding the "AI" chatbots so convincing - they produce the same kind of unnatural but vaguely proper-sounding garbage that we've been trained to mistake for good all our lives.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Sin Vega (sinvega@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 09:21:34 JST Sin Vega

     in reply to

     After decades filled with children and teenagers manufacturing billions of pointless essays and exam practice sessions in place of education, all to make the dead frog's leg twitch, we've invented a process that cuts out the middleman.

     There's a barely-satire story to be written about a world where the children are removed from schools entirely, because the bots can generate the pointless essays more cheaply, which is all that's necessary to produce the numbers needed to get more funding

   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 09:27:40 JST 寮

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     The whole school system is a scam from the ground up.
     It doesn't exist to teach you useful life skills, it only exists to turn you into a compliant government drone and blame corporations (that are controlled by governments) for living in a soyciety that sucks thanks to the government, and call for more government "to fix soyciety".