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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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Yeah, right. My boss gave me a bunch of risk assessments to read through and let slip that AI had 'helped' produce them. So I said I'd get AI to summarise them. All this vast computing power and climate damage is being used for bullshit.
Person A gives an AI a list of bullet points and instructs it to expand the bullet points into an email.
Person B receives the email and asks AI to summarize it into bullet points.
An ocean of water could have been saved if the Person A had just emailed the bullet points directly, and the information transfer would have been far superior.
That's all an LLM is, a gas-powered bullshit firehose.