Post by @seanm@infosec.exchange

2026-08-29 19:23 UTC

@troed@swecyb.com @briankrebs@infosec.exchange how are you using the technology any differently in a meaningful way? I quote: >All implementation is done with a controlling agent handing out tasks to subagents. When one says it's done another agent reviews against spec. So, you're still using GenAI as a database. The only difference is that you have another GenAI agent validate the output instead of validating it yourself. Your entire setup of agents and subagents is predicated on and necessitated by the reality that GenAI technology is unreliable and cannot be trusted. The only difference is that you've somewhat insulated yourself from this reality by using even more GenAI instead of yourself (or another human). You've also completely ignored and distracted from the original topic of datacenters, their harm, and the illogical nature of GenAI technology in general. Everything has been about your anecdotal and narrowly defined usage setup. None of which is particularly relevant to the broader and actual usage by most GenAI technology. So, congrats, cool story. You've managed to use GenAI in a functional manner without needing a datacenter in my backyard. You're not representative of the reality around GenAI technology and its invasion of society. I will point out how you completely ignored my three general asks about the technology several messages ago. You're the one that doesn't seem willing to discuss the technology as a whole and how it's being used in reality by most. You seem to simply want to toot your own anecdotal experience as a generalized proof of why GenAI is actually good. #GenAI #LLM #AISlop

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@troed@swecyb.com 2026-08-29 19:30

@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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@Oldfartrant@mstdn.ca 2026-08-30 19:36

@seanm@infosec.exchange @troed@swecyb.com @briankrebs@infosec.exchange AI is the new NFT

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