What does AI generated even mean, really? Because there is a pretty big difference between “make a star craft game” and a sequence of very specific small prompts to build it up. They are both AI generated, but will vary wildly in quality and implementation.
I will take just about any hot sauce over Tabasco. If a place doesn't have Cholula, they're not a good restaurant (or are a _very_ good restaurant, and don't have hot sauce at all).
I don’t want a hot sauce to do more than add some acid and heat to my eggs or po’boy sandwich, therefore Tabasco. I find others too present and opinionated, making the dish just taste like the hot sauce.
Tabasco has a lot of acid and salt in it; in addition to (very minor/mild) flavor the big additions Tabasco brings to the party are Acid, Salt, and some heat. Cholula is more like a taco sauce, Tabasco does a lot to the food it is on. If you have a poor sense of smell, you'll probably enjoy Tabasco more than Cholula because it's adding a lot of chemical process, not just the minor flavor.
>If a place doesn't have Cholula, they're not a good restaurant
If you're comparing only the taste profile of the two, then perhaps, but Cholula is not as hot by comparison, at least to me. Which is why a decent restaurant (US) needs both. I don't like the excessive vinegary taste of tabasco, my work around is to mix it with ketchup on the plate.
Tabasco is hit or miss, usually good with seafood. Tapatio is my preferred hot sauce with eggs or avocado! And the price point is ideal. Cholua is best with dinners, but the price point can get in the way.
Assuming you’re not arguing that all AI use is bad, then there’s a very clear difference between the two situations: one is forming you, over time, into a person who is habitually polite; one is forming you into a person who is cruel. We can quibble about the magnitude of this effect or whether it matters but surely they aren’t the same thing.
No. He's right. Cruelty is corrosive to the cruel person. Courtesy and kindness help build up the kind and courteous person. Burning compute for courtesy is compute well spent.
I do. I also send my keyboard out for regular Shiatsu sessions and make sure only the most pleasant of colors grace the screen of my monitors. I'm still looking for the least irritating font (to my monitor, not to me). I'm also very polite to LLMs, I start every command with 'please', make sure it is framed as a polite request and I, of course, never ever get upset when for the umptieth time in a day it goes off on a 50K token wild goose chase driven by some hallucinated factoid that it really must get to the bottom off resulting in ever expanding circles of paranoia or batshit insane programming to bring about the condition it has convinced itself of must be the 'smoking gun'...
Being polite to current AI has a practical benefit. If someday we do manage to find our way to AGI that has the desire and the means to wipe out most of humanity, there is at least a chance it could have records of my interactions with its primitive ancestors and see I was polite to them and so maybe if it decides to spare some of us I'll make the cut.
what would make you think that such a creature would consider your behavior anything like a moral good, let alone have a similar system of values to yours? if anything it would probably consider it a sign of weakness or something.
I think after reading all the comments here, it's clear that some people develop an emotional bond with LLM's.
It reminders me of my parents, who were commenting after seeing a robot vacuum cleaner getting stuck in the same place every time "The poor thing was stuck there again, you should really do something about it! Last time the poor thing was sitting there for a day". Like it was a pet.
Or remember that video when the guys from Boston Dynamic kicked that robot dog, and there was an outrage about that?
I wonder if you and me also have a limit, where as robots get more realistic, we would be like "Don't be cruel to that thing!"
It also seems likely that an employee who used company assets (tokens) for personal use would have been fired rather than writing a blog post about it.
> When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
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