The human brain has had no time at all to evolve resistance against manipulation by large language models that "talk" convincingly like a deeply effusive person. That means there are some people who are legitimately endangered by them.
This shit's going to get worse before it gets better. If it gets better.
True. So in six months, the market will be flooded with cheap, barely-used "AI" server hardware no one wants, and RAM for PCs will still be stupid expensive, because we live in the stupidest timeline.
Not really. I'm using Copilot for my job because I'm required to, but I limit it to creating basic scripts that accomplish very specific tasks, which it's okay at. I never let it touch my actual codebase.
Every experiment I've run to test how it does with real code from a large, production application has failed miserably. It introduces mocks, it duplicates stuff everywhere, it fakes shit when real APIs are available... I have no fucking idea how these "AI" companies have managed to convince so many businesses that producing catastrophically shitty code very quickly is a good thing.
There is exactly one situation in which it sort of makes sense: Copilot integrated with VS Code, running repo-specific commands like yarn build, with direct human oversight.
Daily Mail is by no means a credible source. Nevertheless, I'm going to let this one stand because it technically is a newspaper, and that's the actual fucking headline, God help us.
You should read the community info on the sidebar. In short, this is a humorous community that shares real news stories that seem like they could be from The Onion.
So posts should be actual links to news reports with their original headlines, but only news stories that are weird enough that they read like headlines from The Onion are appropriate.
The name "Not The Onion" is a joke, because the news stories here are supposed to be real but make you think you're reading satire.
Uh, re-read the post. Political news stories aren't banned here, they just have to have headlines that read like they're from The Onion. Lots of political posts here haven't been Onion-like at all. That's what's against the rules.
Thanks!