I think you meant to say “people are saying it’s because of slop” - no sane person that I know refusing to work with this shit is dumb enough to call it “AI”
I sometimes use just the quotes for brevity, but I mostly use “slop”. I hate the implicit suggestion there’s any kind of intelligence/understanding involved in generating the output. That combined with the admittedly impressive looking/sounding results leads people to believe it’s actually accurate & reliable, which it isn’t.
I’m not diving into hairsplitting here - there’s an academical field that researched AI, and as part of that field, machine learning is investigated. That doesn’t mean there’s anything intelligent about the core mechanism of LLMs. The part that has many people confusing it for “intelligence” is that with actual - deterministic - algorithms, the in and output are filtered to and from tokens, according to grammar rules of languages, to avoid the most glaringly obvious garbled output.
I think you meant to say “people are saying it’s because of slop” - no sane person that I know refusing to work with this shit is dumb enough to call it “AI”
slop is often used to refer to things that were not made using generative AI
but yeah, AI is the wrong term
Fair enough, I only started reading the term when it was used to express disdain for machine learning systems being wrongly marketed as “AI”
I end up scare-quotes a lot in text and saying “so-called AI” when speaking.
I sometimes use just the quotes for brevity, but I mostly use “slop”. I hate the implicit suggestion there’s any kind of intelligence/understanding involved in generating the output. That combined with the admittedly impressive looking/sounding results leads people to believe it’s actually accurate & reliable, which it isn’t.
they are AI though
how would it be wrong marketing?
see - when they sell statistical gibberish generators as “AI”, gullible people will believe it. You just proved my point.
they are selling statistical gibberish generators as AI because AI is a very broad term that includes machine learning
Only by the definition of people who try to sell this bullshit.
by the definition that has existed for years before 2021
it feels like people forgot every time they used AI before it became trendy to put it in everything
I’m not diving into hairsplitting here - there’s an academical field that researched AI, and as part of that field, machine learning is investigated. That doesn’t mean there’s anything intelligent about the core mechanism of LLMs. The part that has many people confusing it for “intelligence” is that with actual - deterministic - algorithms, the in and output are filtered to and from tokens, according to grammar rules of languages, to avoid the most glaringly obvious garbled output.