Post by @troed@swecyb.com

2026-08-29 19:30 UTC

@seanm@infosec.exchange @seanm@infosec.exchange "1. if GenAI technology is so amazing then why is it being forced into everything and onto everyone?" Stupid US venture capitalism. I'm European. I don't know of a single person having "AI" forced upon them. On the contrary, at all places I consult it's the workers who try to convince their managers to be able to use it. "2. Why are so many of these big companies scaling back their actual usage of GenAI tools?" They are scaling back when the costs stop being subsidized. They're not scaling back on the technology itself. "3. If GenAI is truly so accurate then why do most experts decry its usage in their field? Isn't it weird how it is mostly executives and non-experts pushing this technology so heavily when they are not qualified to judge capabilities? " That's just plainly not true. You do realize you're posting completely unsourced statements and claim that they're true and I must spend time on countering them? Also you completely misunderstood the difference in how we work with the LLMs. Yeah, I run LLMs in a dev process just as I would human juniors. You're the one claiming they're supposed to be fault free when _no one_ working with LLMs believe that to be true. If I want an LLM to use an API I tell it to look up the API documentation. You ask it and then complain that its training data isn't up to date. @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

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@seanm@infosec.exchange 2026-08-29 19:52

@troed@swecyb.com @briankrebs@infosec.exchange >Stupid US venture capitalism. I'm European. I don't know of a single person having "AI" forced upon them. On the contrary, at all places I consult it's the workers who try to convince their managers to be able to use it. Once again, anecdotal evidence. I'm not sure what kind of bubble you live in but it's impressive. Nearly every web service and company is now touting how they've integrated GenAI. It's not just an American thing. And, hundreds of thousands have been laid off globally to make room for GenAI. Speaking of the EU, here is a recent post by the EU Commission on how Europe must adopt GenAI: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116883318986934764 >They are scaling back when the costs stop being subsidized. They're not scaling back on the technology itself. Yes, they are scaling back. Microsoft is restricting access to various models to its employees. Salesforce announced that they were reverting a GenAI support bot that they had deployed. Amazon recently had to address quality control issues around harmful outages causes by overly zealous GenAI technology deployment. Meta/Facebook was just covered in the news to have canceled a project where they aimed to replace nearly 50% of their workforce with GenAI. >That's just plainly not true. You do realize you're posting completely unsourced statements and claim that they're true and I must spend time on countering them? It is apparent to anyone monitoring society. Just open the news and you'll see how experts are having to clean up messes created by GenAI. Courtrooms are increasingly being inundated with GenAI crazed legal briefs. Governments are wasting time correcting policies and law submissions filled with inaccuracies. Teachers are having to debate students that cite GenAI results as fact, and sometimes vice versa. Open source projects are being swamped with fake or bad code submissions. On an anecdotal level? I find that the quality of content from peers that rely on GenAI tend to be of lower quality.

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