An "AI" by any other name

"AI"? You mean......

An "AI" by any other name
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"AI", aka GenAI, aka ChatGPT, aka:

  • LLM, not "artificial intelligence"
  • Dunning-Kruger machine
  • Mediocrity machine
  • Lazy machine
  • "I can't be arsed to do my homework"-machine
  • "I want to skip the real work"-machine
  • "I hate having to hire a human for this"-machine
  • Generative bullshit machine
  • Mansplaining as a service machine
  • Autocomplete it machine
  • Stochastic error machine
  • Artificial ignorance machine
  • Probabilistic text extrusion machine
  • Plagiarism machine
  • Regurgitation machine

This list is made with the help from many awesome people on Mastodon and buddies from the LLEWT book club.

Say NO to Gen AI.

The Plagiarism Machine
If you don’t mind, I’d like to return to that other big story that appeared recently in The Atlantic. No, no, not the one where editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg describes how he was added to the Trump Administration’s Signal group chat discussing plans to bomb Yemen – a story, incidentally, not just