Post by @jwcph@helvede.net

2026-02-22 09:03 UTC

@Ponygirl You know, there's a lot of people who would respond to that with a bunch of hemming & hawing about how useful it can/will be for the right applications - but right now I'd say they have the burden of proof & to my knowledge, they're not lifting it. I'm with you.

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@ninafelwitch@tech.lgbt 2026-02-22 18:29

@jwcph @Ponygirl "AI" is not "AI". I hate that "AI" has become the term people use to refer to ChatGPT or Gemini. You have to distinguish LLMs and other genAI that are being hyped by big tech from the kind of AI that's being used in science and has been used in science for decades. For example, I use a neural network model to denoise my astrophotography. "AI" should never have been made available to the general public. This is a thing for science and science alone.

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@creepy_owlet@mastodon.online 2026-02-24 07:15

@jwcph @Ponygirl just like nobody has proven that woodworking machines can be useful, right? 😉 (yes, you fell victim of your own analogy) It's not even remotely hard to prove that LLMs are useful (refactoring, difficult rebases, generating skeletons for projects, etc), anyone who honestly tried them knows that. Their problems are ethical, political, environmental and financial. LLMs (esp. frontier ones) are unsustainable, whether they work or not.

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