Post #2358373
2026-01-10 02:32 UTC
@luna@post.airsi.de and to go further, people aren't "infected" with LLMs. It's not a disease. It's not communicable. There's no direct physical hurt, and also no doctors, no cures, and no vaccines.
People don't seek help for something they believe is helping them.
We must be careful with our language around all this, even in metaphor.
(I say this fully aware of my own metaphor and taking my own liberties, but there's seriousness, and there's jest.)
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
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@jjcelery@mastodon.ie 2026-01-10 02:37
@luna@post.airsi.de and further still to drive the distinction: I speak of generative AI and large language models. Machine Learning is a superset of these terms, and it's extremely useful. To go back to my metaphor, there's good magic objects, and cursed magic objects. If your lore skill is not high enough to know which one is which, you'll wind up using a cursed object and think it's good for you.