Gregory's ServerHas anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.
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@mwichary not sure about “writing”, but that’s definitely the commentariat response I have seen to it online for my memory of it existing. i.e. “so… it’s like the internet”? etc. @mwichary After pondering this piece I suddenly blurted “Oh my god! They’ve modelled Brian!” (Name changed). We’ve probably all had to work with or under a Brian at some point.   @mwichary  @mwichary Yesterday I was talkin’about AI and used the hashtag #AIsplaining (In English is «With AI we will all have answers to questions we haven't asked.»):   @mwichary Gods yes! I was telling a friend only in the last month it sounds like a sales guy I used to know who would overconfidently state a wrong thing and I'd just have to bring in that one fact that showed it up "oh! of course of course yes, sorry about that, anyway <another wrong thing>" @mwichary This is a bit of a tangent, but I recommend this piece on how gen AI works in a similar way to psychic mediums. https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/  @mwichary The statistician in me suggests that these statistical engines do just what they are designed to do: mirror the main features of their training data set.   @mwichary *** And it starts with the profession itself: how many women work in AI tech and how are they treated? The newest information: https://www.salon.com/2024/05/21/coercive-climate-of-silicon-valleys-ai-boom-fuels-troubling-parties-researcher-says/ You can search for more studies.  @mwichary when the a large set of the conversational corpus of LLM's is taken from places like Twitter and a reddit, then their ... Flavour of discourse is the output |
@mwichary I've heard it called mansplaining as a service.