Things I Read On The Internet That Make My Head Hurt.

dusts off this thing

There is no such thing as an AI actor or actress. Call it Acting Software if you must. And I’m sure there are useful reasons for LLM based chatbots and such, but stop using human terms to describe any of this stuff. I wouldn’t even call it by the misleading term AI. It’s just Super Duper autocomplete.

One cannot “hire” an “AI Actress” because one cannot “hire” software. You can license software. You can buy software. But you can’t “hire” software.

And I don’t think super duper autocomplete is itself bad, nor is acting software, but stop trying to humanize this crap. It’s just software! And it’s okay for it to be software!

By framing it as Super Duper Autocomplete, I think people would better understand that this stuff gets things wrong all the time and maybe we’d see fewer important things being handed off to it at the expense of, frankly, humanity. Ours, as well as humanity in general.

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PS Get off Instagram. Yes. You. I think that might be my new signature.

That’s all for now.

-Ira