I need to step away from my PC – for a moment – because, although I have so much to write, the statements made in this video touch me too deeply and are too closely aligned to my own views and too close to the fundamental reasons underlying my own depression and disillusionment and burn-out.
Watch it.
Seriously. Watch it. If you are well briefed on the A.I. bubble and A.I. Hell, just skip to:
- ~ 34 minutes to miss the demonstration of the tedious issue.[1]
- ~ 38 minutes to reach the philosophical statements
- ~ 39 minutes to hear about deception – the universal “tell” of A.I. scammers
- ~ 41 minutes if you’re prepared for tears: to lament what we’ve lost, what we so nearly had, what humanity is losing, what is being stolen from artists ¬
(I need some space.)
I assure you this video is not about content farms, SEO or the death of search but one might be mistaken for thinking that, in the first half. Don’t. It is worth your patience. ↩︎
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Not gonna watch it. I’m here for articles.
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Great way to get further misinformation
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Searching the web for “glb file format” seems a natural thing to do while listening to the first part of this video. On my favourite searx instance I had to scroll past only 7 links to LLM-generated garbage before finding a link to the actual spec. I wonder how Kagi fares in this test.
If you wanted the specification why not search for “.glb format specification”? I did that on Google and the specification was the first hit.
I find it interesting as an experiment to measure how polluted the information environment is with machine-generated shit, not as an exercise in how to navigate around it.
It’s only “polluted” if you’re looking for something specific and you refuse to ask for something specific.
If you go into a restaurant and ask them for “a drink” without specifying what drink you want, don’t complain about the quality of the coffee when they bring you a coke.
Coffee and cola are both pretty good. Are you reflexively coming to the defense of generative AI on general principle or did you actually look at those sites, the horribleness of which is exhaustively detailed in the video, and decide that they look as if they could be useful to anyone?
I looked at the sites. Did you? The thing that OP was looking for that they claimed had been made unfindable or “polluted” were perfectly accessible and fine.
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The “google-fu” in this case was to search for “.glb format specification” when seeking the .glb format specification.
This really doesn’t seem like a huge challenge requiring sophisticated skills.
I think a lot of the people that embrace genAI do so because they’ve been drilled to embrace all new tech or risk becoming obsolete. At least that’s what I feel from my workplace: non technical coworkers nervously grasping at it, trying to squeeze the advertised productivity out of it, with the fear the competition is already doing it, and better. The mediocrity of the results are then interpreted as a shortcoming on their end so they double down.
I’m thrilled to see someone like Freya, a passionate of maths & arts, weighing in on the matter and I agree wholeheartedly with her. GenAI is destructive in many ways, and attacking an essential part of the human experience, storytelling, is not mentioned enough.
Every person that speaks out creates opportunities for many others to give it a second thought and question this venture.
This video is excellent, thank you for sharing it!
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Oh shit. New Freya dropped?! On AI?!?!?!
Anything she uploads is well worth an hour or two of my time.
I was introduced to Continuity of Splines last month. Never thought I would watch a 73 minute video on methods for drawing curves, but I did and I loved it.
My favorite part of that video is the single moment of tone-shift when she describes how a point “yeets off to fucking nowhere”
i love how i saw your comment and knew the EXACT moment from the EXACT video you were describing without even seeing the context of the conversation 😆
