{"id":11241,"date":"2025-06-16T06:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2025-06-16T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:29:21","slug":"glad-were-not-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2025\/06\/16\/glad-were-not-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Glad we&#8217;re not the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEverybody had their fun mocking <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/kimothyterrajoy.bsky.social\/post\/3lrntjfqwgs2c\">this dumb AI shill already<\/a>, but that won&#8217;t stop me:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/ai-dumdum.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"268\" alt=\"Twitter screenshot from user TheFuturelsDesigned @designed_future\n\nYou: take 2 hours to read 1 book.\n\nMe: take 2 minutes to think of precisely the information I need, write a well-structured query, tell my agent Al to distribute it to the 17 models I've selected to help me with research, who then traverse approximately 1 million books, extract 17 different versions of the information I'm looking for, which my overseer agent then reviews, eliminates duplicate points, highlights purely conflicting ones for my review, and creates a 3-level summary.\n\nAnd then I drink coffee for 58 minutes.\n\nWe are not the same.\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFirst off, if mr Future here is drinking coffee for 58 minutes, what&#8217;s he doing that other hour? Pissing it all out again?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond, what kind of (I assume) work related book that you need this complicated AI setup for to get summarised will only take two hours to read anyway?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThird, the weird exactness of &#8220;the 17 models I&#8217;ve selected&#8221;.  Why seventeen? Why not sixteen, or eighteen? Why mention a million books too? Just the first random Big Number that popped in his head? Bad enough having seventeen different AIs to summarise a book, but having a separate agent then collating this &#8220;raw output&#8221; and summarise it even further is begging for errors.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/fairies-mothra.jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"295\" alt=\"A man in a suit says: it may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the faires, we could ask Mothra to help.\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt all sounds very cool and ccyberpunky, something you could&#8217;ve read in a late eighties hack sf novel ripping of Gibson or Sterling, but in real life it all sounds a lot like using the fairies to ask Mothra for help. All it does is make it clear you don&#8217;t want to do your job, which lords know I can sympathise with, but also that you don&#8217;t know how to do your job, if you think reading a summary of a book is the same thing as reading the book itself. What makes you think you can judge what the AI regurgitates for you if you&#8217;re too lazy to do the work yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody had their fun mocking this dumb AI shill already, but that won&#8217;t stop me: First off, if mr Future here is drinking coffee for 58 minutes, what&#8217;s he doing that other hour? Pissing it all out again? Second, what kind of (I assume) work related book that you need this complicated AI setup for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-not-magic-pixiedust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11246,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions\/11246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}