Yesterday, 10:42 AM
(17th July 2025, 7:53 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: I'm just not even bothering with LLM AI. It has no comprehension of anything it's doing and is just a statistical sieve anyway, so it's simply not fit to the tasks these giant corporations are forcing upon it.
Perhaps it's better off with what it was doing BEFORE giant corporations thought it could make art, write books, and answer questions. That is, solving protein folding, mass testing engineering models, and analyzing weather data. Human behavior is something it's simply not capable of.
Therein lies the problem. AI cannot think or conceive original thoughts or ideas; therefore, it cannot replace the creative types. It can only plagiarize through pattern recognition, reconstructing what it has learned by observing art and writing made by real humans. AI is indeed useful for pattern recognition and combing through large swaths of data quickly, but instead of using it as a tool to make people's lives better, corporations are leaning into using it to try to replace human creativity and art. The end result is soulless, and it takes away what little chance real artists have of monetizing on their hard-earned talents.
As an English Composition instructor, AI has made my job harder. I treat every essay with suspicion now, and it's exhausting, and without burden of proof, there's not a lot I can do, especially in online classes in which I can't assign in-class, handwritten assignments.
I fear AI may also make society dumber as people become lazier and less literate. Literacy is more than just reading and writing words or constructing meaning from sentences; it also involves reading between the lines, extrapolating deeper meaning, analyzing rhetorical intent, identifying bias and propaganda... things people won't learn to do if they just use the ChatGPT plagiarism machines.
Does AI have a place in this world? Yes. Just now how corporations are pushing it or how laymen are using it. Let AI do our menial chores so we can make art, not the other way around.