Post by @supersquirrel@lemmy.ca

2026-10-29 20:03 UTC

That works well when you have time and the right humans with the right knowledge happen to be frequenting the space. In a lot of cases, I have seen that system used to offload the research burden onto somebody else. Those spaces have been increasingly taken over by bots, astroturfing, or armchair ‘experts’ presenting mis/disinformation or parroting something they saw on Youtube out if context. Yeah, this is why smart, community informed architecture is so important and difficult to get right, and it is also why corporate social media is a terrible idea/business if you care about the health of the communities on it. To be honest though, old reddit was a great source of information before monetization became the focus, so is the fediverse, yes you have to be extremely skeptical of course you do but in my experience my interactions on the fediverse the vast majority are clearly with human beings.

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@rhamph@awful.systems 2026-10-29 21:00

theluddite.org/…/spectacle-of-computation.html The natural world does not come with a quantified representation of itself, but we are constantly awash in so much data that we forget that it must come from someone with their own interests, flaws, and ideologies, no matter what they claim, or how much computation they put it through.

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@Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 2026-10-29 22:53

Here you expose how little you have thought about the constant need for human curators/gardiners of spatial GIS data Not sure what I wrote to lead you to this conclusion. My intention was mostly to highlight and juxtapose areas where an “AI” system can be superior to a human one (combing through thousands of datasheets quickly) to another where the human curated option is ideal without “AI” involvement (maps and tacos) The takeaway that I didn’t spell out being that I don’t think it should be automatic / compulsory for every query. Users should, at a minimum, have a dedicated extra interaction before their query is parsed by LLM.

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