And now, for the first time ever, I want to download one of these “model” thingies and “train” it on everything Bezos has ever publicly said.

Then put it up on Mastodon as BezosBot, replying to anything people toot its way with Bizarre Bezos Bullshit.

<refrain> Said the actress to the bishop.

The LLM grifters have, indeed, spawned a spin-off community of grifters targeting the anti-LLM community.

It’s grifters all the way down.

The situation would be a problem for years in LEO only … until a launch destined for beyond LEO gets hit by a piece of Kaptain Ketamine’s debris at just the wrong time and is turned into an expanding ball of wreckage on a trajectory for far higher.

Then suddenly the Ketamine Syndrome expands to full-blown Kessler Syndrome.

Oopsie.

Again, however, there’s no evidence beyond the anecdotal that this is a thing. The only formal studies I’ve seen have found the opposite: that LLMs reduce productivity.

I’d like to see formal studies stating otherwise before I take seriously any claim of huge performance gains, 'cause when I see below average people using LLMs for writing, their writing gets worse, not better, because they lack the ability to assess the LLM output for accuracy.

We design studies around claimed beneficial workflows and measure.

Nobody said this is easy. It isn’t. Social sciences in particular are hard to design good studies for. But without measurement (and precise definitions of what “effectiveness” means for purposes of these measurements) all claims about “productivity through the roof” are sus as all fuck.

… and how things are looking, it might have to be one written before LLMs came out …

Oh, do I ever feel this!

I guess “allowed me to do something at all, even if slower and not as high quality” is a benefit. But that seems an underwhelming benefit for something touted as “Ph.D. level assistance”…

By virtue of my location, the Jolly Roger is the only way I can access most popular media.

Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I’ve been seeing, meaning that so far all actual studies directly contradict the anecdotes. And directly contradict my personal experience watching people trying to use it before just giving up and going back to working like actual people.

I guess if you measure productivity by word count instead of work quality and utility, L. Ron Hubbard is one of the most productive writers in all of history.

I’m not even sure that they can match a three year old.

I’m not sure they can match a newborn.

I asked for peer-reviewed studies, not anecdotal opinion. I’m full up to the brim with anecdotal opinions that don’t seem to match reality in any measurable way.

A while back there was a tainted milk scandal in China that impacted tens of thousands of children for life and killed several.

Have you noticed it hasn’t happened again?

It seems that executions (of which there were several) and prosecution/jailing of wealthy company owners (of which there were many) do have a deterrent impact after all.

God no! Wow! They’d taste like ketamine and evil!

CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! ALL YOU HAVE TO LOSE IS CHEAP SHIT YOU DON’T REALLY NEED ANYWAY!

Even better. The AI Bubble bursting may be good because it may finally wake people the fuck up as to how utterly god-damned stupid their ruling class is and eliminate them.

People who use slop keep saying stuff like “my productivity grew by leaps and bounds” and such. Yet I’ve never seen substantiation of productivity gains with LLMs: not with colleagues who gave it a try (at my boss’ behest until he realized it was idiotic), nor with any actual formal management studies.

Are there any peer-reviewed studies showing productivity going “off the charts” by use of LLMs? Or is this all anecdote from people who were never productive in the first place and can thus make any claim they like about their productivity? (After all 1000× nothing is … nothing.)

China always had the wrong idea with their social credit score …

The one that doesn’t exist? That one?

Go ahead. Try to challenge me on that. Tell me precisely how and/or where I can get my social credit score or, since I’m an expat, my Chinese SO. I mean you must know this kind of stuff to be so certain this social credit score exists, right? Tell me how I can get my or he get his social credit score.

I’ll wait.

What the kind of moral imbecile thinks sending someone an AI-generated version of her own father is a good thing?

Oh. Sloppers. Yes. Of course. They already left their morals by the door to even use the plagiarism parrots.

study finds

Can’t do ‘studies’ on AI forms that don’t yet exist, now, can we?