Fuck AI

Part of me wants to share my reasons against AI at work. Some possible reasons I'm thinking of sharing are cooking the planet, you don't know when it is hallucinating so how do you trust it, critical thinking rot.

No boss is going to be persuaded by "cooking the planet". Nor do they care about critical thinking rot.

But the hallucinations? That they'll care about.

Pick something non work-related that your boss is an expert in. Engage the AI in that something until it generates a whole bunch of hallucinations. (My favourite thing is to have an AI hallucinate bands that don't exist, albums that don't exist, songs that don't exist, lyrics that don't exist, etc.: All of which is trivial to verify and prove wrong.)

Here. I just generated this conversation in Deepseek for you to show you how easy it is to get an AI to hallucinate. I just asked a question about an almost completely non-existent concept ("inukpunk") and got it bloviating a bunch of idiocy before catching it with the fact that what it claims is a thriving literary movement doesn't actually exist.

Note: I just asked it a three-word question and it created from whole cloth a breathtaking amount of text on a subject that doesn't exist.