this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
284 points (97.7% liked)
Technology
84768 readers
3125 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Microsoft isn't working on those things. Consumer facing shit is what people are talking about when we bitch about AI. We're not going to add an annotation with the few exceptions every time we post about how terrible it is. Besides that there's plenty of LLM shit being put into medicine and science where it doesn't belong too. People are going to die because of this crap if they haven't already. For the vast majority of people there is no distinction and that's dangerous as fuck. Better to conflate it all as shit and let the useful products rebrand behind the scenes than to keep shoving LLMs into everything because they're riding on the coattails of a handful of good applications.
Who said anything about Microsoft working on them? But yes, Microsoft is probably also working on those…
And that is exactly the point. Don’t blanket bitch about AI when you only mean a tiny subset of AI, that happens to have become a fad.
Ok let’s say
Same as:
If Tesla makes a shitty car, does that make all other cars from other manufacturers that have come before it and will come after it also shitty? Why do you say: AI is shit when LLM’s and the like are shit, and not cars are shit when the Cybertruck is shit?
(Ok not a perfect example because Cybertrucks aren’t as popular, but you get the idea).
And there is not just a handful of good applications. They’re just not consumer models and are used in certain fields as I mentioned before. As a whole, the number of ML algorithms still vastly outnumber the LLM’s and the like. That may shift now everyone and their mother is making an “AI”. But for now, let’s stick to the facts.
This is the technology community after all…