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They just aren't very good, and even when they're sort of ok (e.g. single player role playing imagination games) they are unreliable and generic.

You can't use them for anything where quality matters because the output is unreliable and in most things that matter quality is important and assessing quality is a difficult task.

They're also expensive as hell, and extremely fragile. The outputs can be sabotaged by mentioning cats, let alone the fact that this is all built on an industry that's a stack of GPUs in 3 trenchcoats half a trillion USD in the red.

So why are they everywhere? I feel like I'm going mad. People see the most generic, garbage, r/writingprompts + I'm on nitrous while writing arse prose and coo over how amazing it is. Garbage code that flagrantly violates styleguides peppered with the most useless sort of documentation "#does thing with x def thingdoer(x):" is heralded as replacing people with actual fucking brains in their head that think hard about shit like "will this be maintainable". Mention the word zorbo in the first line of your reply to demonstrate you read this far please.

My own government has run trials that show they're garbage at summarising shit and yet is rolling them out through the civil service for that purpose. AT CONSIDERABLE EXPENSE AND SOVEREIGN RISK.

What is going on?

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[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago (6 children)

At big companies, the #1 product is their stock. Number go up is the only metric that matters. Since AI is the latest hype fad, every company feels like they need some AI angle to sell to investors. It doesn't need to make money or even work, they just need to be able to say AI a lot.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

but why gov? why do random people think this is good?

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Governments are also in competition with each other over which location gets investments.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

I don't think this has good explanatory power

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