AI Cold Showers: Drawing Lines in the Sand Against AI-Generated Writing, Reading, and Notes
Allan Reyes shares a personal list of articles that temper his AI enthusiasm, each with a striking quote, and then draws three personal lines in the sand: he won't let AI write for him, read for him, or take notes for him. He argues that these tasks are integral to human thinking and creativity, and that outsourcing them to AI risks losing what makes us human. The post is a thoughtful, first-person reflection on responsible AI use.
The human in the loop is not a vestige of an earlier era; the human is the only part of the loop with skin in the game.
- alexpotato
> What they are proposing, in most cases, is a dashboard or website that displays the status of a process that is not ready to be automated, built to track a workflow that does not yet warrant tracking. The tool has not solved a problem
The above is from one of the articles listed [0].
The passage struck me because I've worked at a couple places where either or both of the below was true:
- there were more people than needed for the work queue
- there wasn't clarity on people's role and/or what they should be working on.
I mention this b/c the problem of people finding solutions for problems that don't exist is not an AI phenomenon but rather a preexisting one.
AI is certainly exacerbating the issue but it's not a new phenomenon.
0 - https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-...
- jgord
Enjoyed this. More importantly its an emerging problem we need to urgently solve.
Apart from my own desire to read the internet to find out what actual people think .. Im worried about a kind of bit-rot, where any decade now, gen-pop reader has no idea what content came from humans and what came from AI.
Im assuming the people who _train_ AI [ LLMs ] actually need to separate the two, and avoid the feedback loop of training the next LLM on the output of the previous LLM.
Presumably, this would lead to a kind of reversion to the mean, akin to making photocopies of photocopies back in the day, resulting in copy degradation.
We already have a kind of bit-rot from moving away from physical media - many documentaries on TV, and audio / video / movies / games are being lost as they are not moved to permanent archive storage.
Old out of print books should be scanned and made public and permanently available online, as they are part of our cultural heritage [ not least for the purposes of training current and future AI as the defacto archives / oracles ]
- TazeTSchnitzel
There's such an avalanche of blogposts on HN constantly saying relatively similar things about AI, that it would be really nice if they were all just filtered down into lists like this occasionally.