Missouri Executive Order 44 (eat your heart out, George) was signed by Lilburn Boggs on October 23, 1838, and ordered that Mormons in the state be “exterminated” or exiled. This destroyed Boggs’ political career, but the order wasn’t formally rescinded until 1976 as a goodwill gesture by Governor Kit Bond. Zombie laws and orders are a hell of a drug that I imagine keep lawyers up at night.
It was an accurate synopsis of the story, without forcing people to wade through some journalist’s attempt at literature. I don’t like AI either, but this a pretty benign use of it, as long as you can verify the facts. This one was fine.
“I don’t like it, but now we rely on it”
Look I’m not saying you didn’t use it responsibly, the tech can be used well. But it’s just better not to incorporate it and normalize it. We are already having problem with kids of all ages losing the ability to think critically and if we push this tech into every corner of our lives and never take an intentional stand against it, or we draw no lines in the sand and say here but no further, we are headed in the same direction that has billionaires and other oligarchs choosing for us what is even available to us.
Even what you said, without forcing people to wade through some journalists attempt at literature, well that’s a symptom of forcing journalists to turn every thing of interest they want to write on, into some opinion piece with a tasty juicy story that can be used for clicks and more traffic.
Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man now, but I’m also someone who doesn’t understand why people can’t sit through a good movie, if it’s more than 90 minutes. Like do you not enjoy the things you do?
It’s the constant pressure to turn everything into a headline, and just looking at headlines, that has helped put us in such a sorry state.
I’m not arguing that it is or isn’t a benign use of AI that’s really not part of why I replied, at least to my way of thinking.
It’s a stand against laziness. We have to hold ourselves accountable for the things we choose because they are convenient. Especially when they actually are because we as a whole can’t be trusted to use convenient things as if they arent a worse choice almost every time
I’m a grumpy old man, too, and along with that comes realism. AI is here to stay, so we should encourage responsible uses for it, and strongly resist immoral uses of it, like replacing workers.
Having AI compile a quick answer to a simple question, so I don’t have to research through a half-dozen articles, prepare my own blurb, then vote all the articles, is the kind of thing AI should be used for. I just wanted a quick synopsis of the incident, and it gave me an accurate one, and nobody has to lose their job. How dumb would it be to ignore that, and then go write my own, that would take a bunch of time, and probably wouldnt be as good?
And please don’t write your own statement, put quotes around that, and attribute it to me. If I believed that, I would say it, but I don’t believe that, and I didn’t say it. Few things are more disengenuous than putting false words in someone’s mouth, and then using that false statement as a poor argument to defend your own poor position against.