#WetCement hashtag - Bluesky

5 months ago

Screenshot of a post from github. The reply is from majorariene, and she is responding to this quote: "Chances are that you are already using more Al than you actually think you do, you just don't notice." Her response is: "Because every company, whether we want it or not, has shoved it into its workflows. It's really easy to accuse people of using Al in their daily lives when they literally cannot fucking get away from it because every other dumbass company has implemented it, despite it being the most useless fucking thing on the planet (and actually actively harmful). I have to use the Microsoft suite at work and I disable Copilot in every place that Microsoft has shoved it into, because it's actually fucking useless for my job. Can't be an accountant and spit out a 57% accuracy rating. I like using my own brain to solve problems, or at least do the research to solve a problem. I understand if YOU don’t want to do that, but that just makes you a shitty developer, and that's just what it is. Let the people who actually want to work on this thing work on it."

[Wet Cement Thread, An Update]

I promise, I promise, I am nearly done with this, but sometimes you just see things that perfectly fit into your web you're weaving and you have to go "...and another thing..."

Eoin Colfer/Douglas Adams enjoyers will get that […]

[Original post on retro.pizza]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, Summation]

The "cement" of the Wet Cement analogy... in case you hadn't picked up on it, it's history.
And memory.
And knowledge.
And information.

It's what's recorded, what's written down, what's kept for the future and not blown away by the sands of time. It's public […]

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5 months ago

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

[Wet Cement Thread, AI and The Flat Earth]

They want you to use the AI because they want you to trust the AI. Just like they wanted you to use the Search Engine because they wanted you to trust the Search Engine.

Because if they can get it so that you pass […]

[Original post on retro.pizza]

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5 months ago

Very old magazine ad with doctors advocating smoking Camel cigarettes

A comic book character - Asbestos Man

Propaganda showing communists injecting "red" into a school house

Colin Powell at a UN assembly holding a vial of "anthrax"

[Wet Cement Thread, AI and The Flat Earth]

Ok final diversion, I promise.

How do you know the Earth is round? Like, really? Most people have never been to space, or even high enough to see the curvature. There are tests you can do, sure, but they're hard to do […]

[Original post on retro.pizza]

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5 months ago

Screenshot of a google search for "what are the signs of dementia in Biden" with an AI overview and a bunch of actual search results.

Screenshot of google results for a search for "what are the signs of dementia in Trump" - no AI overview, just search results

[Wet Cement Thread, AI and Politics]

Basically, if you can strategically place your AI between a person and the internet, it is a perpetual wet cement pouring machine that lets you write your own version of reality.

Just look at the constant dance that Elon […]

[Original post on retro.pizza]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, AI and Politics]

What does this have to do with AI?

Well, most AI models are basically just search engines that've gotten ideas above their stations.

Hell, if you want to get incredibly reductive, LLMs are "look at the rest of this paragraph and guess what the next […]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, AI and Politics]

I mention SEO and the Arms Race because I feel like it was during this time with the ever shifting algorithm that Google really got the idea into their own head that their search results didn't have to be actually accurate, just... feel that way to the end […]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, AI and Politics]

Suddenly, if I was searching for Brave Express Might Gaine (an obscure giant robot cartoon from Japan) I did not get 10 pages of results about Chris Gaines, I only got... like... half a page, and then I started getting actual fan sites and subtitling groups […]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, AI and Politics]

Simple answer? Money and power.

I swear to the gods it's like Scooby Doo sometimes, you pull the mask off almost any monster that exists in society and it's rich white dudes that want to become richer white dudes.

More complex answer?

There are probably […]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, Now talking about AI]

And so they are also trying to use AI to "Disrupt" in the "modify an existing thing" form.

Because if they can't get you to go to AI, they will bring the AI to you.

That's why they are shoving it into browsers, and […]

[Original post on retro.pizza]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, Now talking about AI]

They want AI to be a disruptor. That's the fastest way to guarantee it survives beyond the bubble pop. But in order to do that, they have to embed it in that meta cement as deep and as fast as they can.

What they really want is the "this is a brand new […]

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5 months ago

[Wet Cement Thread, Now talking about AI]

Everybody loves to talk about "Disruption" in the tech industry, but I don't think people really think about it much. This is relevant, I promise.

Disruption (mainly) comes in two forms - replacing/improving on an existing thing OR inventing a brand […]

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5 months ago