• Zink@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    Timely anecdote!

    Yesterday my son asked me what AI means, and if it meant something is fake. He’s young so I didn’t go into the LLM distinction, just defined how “artificial” means yes it’s fake, and “AI generated” just means they asked a computer to make it.

    It reminds me of when everything was “cloud cloud cloud!!!” It’s just other people’s computers!

      • cecilkorik@piefed.ca
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        22 hours ago

        It actually just means you aren’t allowed to know about the servers, so when it turns out your application is running too slowly they can claim your application is poorly optimized and/or you’re simply not paying them enough instead of the reality that they have you and 7,000 other people sharing the same kind of chip that controls a toaster.