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• Post #3402410

  i am so tired of "ethical concerns aside" being a phrase i see every single time someone tries to defend the use of LLMs. fuck that! ethical concerns front and fucking center! it is very revealing that tech is currently in such a state that the quiet part can be said out loud without any pushback.

• Post #1508592

  There was something that bothered me about mastodon, coming from twitter, but that i was not really managing to articulate until it hit me this morning: mastodon is profoundly ephemeral. Moving across servers is common; and when you do all of your post history remains on the old server and is probably gone. Most servers disable text search. Between the general lack of discoverability, the lack of lists, and the unaltered chronological timeline, toots from friends can just simply be lost in the...

• Post #644630

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@joshuaelliott/116209921179982230 this is the main reason why i believe that chatbot addiction / chatbot psychosis is a LOT more widespread than we realise: people with a clear understanding of the ethical issues try claude once, it does a thing correctly enough, they get one-shot, and they start posting like if sephiroth was on linked-in, ethical concerns be damned. it keeps happening. it's a big part of why i refuse to touch LLMs: i am not special, i am no...