Post #3288706
2026-06-07 19:22 UTC
@LeBonk@wetdry.world @ScriptFanix@maly.io @jmax@mastodon.social @TimWardCam@c.im @yugthebug@mastodon.social @thirstybear@agilodon.social
I just call them LLMs. AI is a field of research. LLMs are a spin-off, but they're not AI in the science fiction sense anymore than a Fisher Space Pen is a rocket just because it's a spin-off of the space industry.
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@LeBonk@wetdry.world 2026-06-07 19:25
@resuna@ohai.social @ScriptFanix@maly.io @jmax@mastodon.social @TimWardCam@c.im @yugthebug@mastodon.social @thirstybear@agilodon.social yeah but this also includes image generators and things that maybe can't be accurately described as dealing with "language" in its output Kate Crawford's term "large-scale computing" is also good as a reminder that these things are really just the same sort of thing we've had for a while, but bigger, more resource-intensive, and more exploitative