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So the people that had an actual idea of what the implications of using it might be weren't on board? Huh. Weird.
"All the engineers said my "screen door on a submarine" was "stupid" and would "sink the ship", so I fired them and hired new engineers!"
speaking of submarines, this is the exact line of thinking that turned an idiot CEO into a paste at the bottom of the ocean
thank you mighty wizard for casting dopamine.
I can not read the word "cast" in any form without remembering this:
There's a small difference, the imploded CEO was "boldly going where no man had gone before, on such an accelerated timetable and tight budget" - the screen door guy was a couple of orders of magnitude more foolish.
I told AI to build me a submarine out of ~~titanium~~ carbon fiber.
Titanic sub was made from carbon fiber. Titanium is what he should have used.
Damnit, I knew that too. I stopped skimming too early in the Wiki paragraph.
build me a submarine out of cheese! I always get hungry when i'm submarining and not! anymore!
Wallace & Gromit Visit the Titanic.
No worries, friend. Good on you for making sure.
Marketing people are known for beliving their own lies.
Sales and marketing is often mostly bullshitting anyway. It also has a lot less risk and constraints associated to generated text having issues. Not surprised they were more on board. The tool is more fitting for those use cases anyway.
They’re also the people who build their career on never stirring the pot so they can make their clients feel special. They’re built to be sycophants and their jobs are, and this isn’t even necessarily a bad thing, a little more nebulous which means they’d feel the effects much less strongly.
"Pointlessly waffling for a living just got so much easier!"
Like the guy with the carbon fiber submarine. Every engineer told him it couldn't be done, so he kept firing them until he had a staff of young, inexperienced engineers who would do what they were told, and just collect their paychecks.
Now their boss is dead, and there are no more paychecks.
Well at least that problem fixed itself.
I wished more of society's problems were solved that way, with the guy responsible for such a stupid concept paying the ultimate price for his arrogance.
Seeing these kinds of people harness AI is so embarrassing. They feel empowered while doing some of the whackest stuff. In the end, it is still technical style work snd they are still awful at it.
When you're driving a car down the ski jumping ramp.