A classic solution in search of a problem, and higher Ed is a consistent sucker for these things.

Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal.

Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.

It’s pretty simple.

Pick your industry, fits 'em all

Very much looking forward to all those mid-career AIs funding my pension in 10 years time…in addition to all the unemployment benefits for the workless 30-somethings 👍

From a software perspective, it's architecturally incapable of "improvement" along the lines these companies claim.

Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.

People who are opposed to any kind of regime running on Gen AI have to exercise our capacity to address it beyond its flaws. Flaws are opportunities to anyone looking for more money bc it gives them something to “fix.” Don’t get stuck in the “flaws.” Think about foundations.

You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.

IAN!! Congratulations and thank you.

What’s the over/under on the ‘ai gramma’ in the commercial being regular video of the actor?

Cauldron seems fitting, as does cloud…