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Talking to computers. With recent LLM craze it really rubs me the wrong way when people try to reason with an autocomplete as if it is another human being. I also am weirded by others talking to voice assistants like Alexa and using text to speech. Could never force myself to do it, and consider it a form of lunacy, to be honest.
Hey hey, why is text-to-speech catching a stray?? I can speak way faster than I can type, even if I do occasionally have to fix a couple of typos. It beats the heck out of typing on the iOS keyboard. And text-to-speech while driving is way safer.
It is saf-er, but still far from safe.
Sincerely,
The Bicyclist You Almost Ran Over Because You Were Distracted By Your Phone
It's funny how quickly people started treating autocomplete like a person.
I don't remember who it was, some youtube person, who said that he talks to chagpt when he goes to sleep. Like he goes to bed and starts chatting with the bot until he falls asleep. Thats completely bonkers to me.
What I find most absurd about LLMs is the providers' business model, since it fundamentally cannot function without stealing the work of others.
The few times I've tried using an LLM, when it fucks up I viciously berate it. Had one actually end a session because it interpreted one of my rants as threatening violence. I only told it to write an email to its CEO telling that person how shitty a product they produced.
I find people who find this weird weird