Yeah.. Normies for sure don't use the term "LLM". I don't think it would scare them though. They're used to being confused 💀
When I see "AI" I think "tech bro hype" whereas "LLM" makes me think the developer is more likely to have a realistic view of the technology.
I guess this depends a lot on your target demo. But but even just cutting down on usage of the exact term "AI" would help I think. Basically anything is better.
I looked at your site. Realistically I think we're talking about two different things here. There are tools which were programmed with the assistance of AI and then there are AI powered tools. Your stuff is clearly the latter.
I think ai powered tools are a lot harder to sell people on right now. The ai powered area is where I see by far the most shovelware/slop.
To be blunt, when I see a new ai powered tool I assume several things:
This is low effort slop
A tech bro vibe coded this 100%
No one cares about this
It will either make a ton of money or be abandoned next week
If it's popular, anthropic will buy/clone it and everyone will use their version instead
I know this isn't true of every ai powered app but it's true of 99% of them right now. I really have no idea how you could convince people yours isnt slop.
One idea might be to stop using the term "AI". It's a buzzword with strong connotations. Some people hear it and think "gold rush", some people think "slop" or "data center".
Personally I would be a lot more likely to take a project seriously if they used the term "LLM" or "machine learning" to describe what powers the product.
Also, I don't see anything that looks like obvious AI art to me but DONT USE AI ART. AI art is already terrible on its own but when I see AI art mixed with AI text telling me about an AI powered app I'm 1000% done giving my attention.
So they advised us to feed as much data as we can into these AIs, so that when policymakers ask AI about their options, they will not only get the lobbyist answer.
That's not how AI works though. You can't feed data into an AI in a way that affects the answers other people get. It's not learning anything in real-time like that.
If you want to "feed data" into an AI system all you can really do is publish that data publicly and wait for it to be scraped up into their training data.
Edit: I'll admit that I overlooked the fact they do add conversations to training data but a single user is going to be weighted VERY low. Especially if their data looks like an outlier.
Seems pretty unlikely to me that you could really influence the model in a meaningful way like that.
Better off focusing on public/authoritative data that will get weighted a lot heavier.
Political commentators get ironically assassinated in front of a crowds in broad daylight in the EU all the time. Just because it happened in the US once or twice this year doesn't mean anything.
Obviously triggered something here. I'm not going to read all this.
I use AI. I've built agents from first principles. I've tried at these things. I've been down these roads.
I know where we stand right now and it's not the place that delusional tech bros think we are standing.
You seem very invested in the idea that this needs to work out. Like it's part of your identify now or something. You are defending this as if I attacked you personally.
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I'll admit that I overlooked that but a single user is going to be weighted VERY low. Especially if their data looks like an outlier.
Seems pretty unlikely to me that you could really influence the model in a meaningful way like that.
Better off focusing on public/authoritative data that will get weighted a lot heavier.
Yeah.. Normies for sure don't use the term "LLM". I don't think it would scare them though. They're used to being confused 💀
When I see "AI" I think "tech bro hype" whereas "LLM" makes me think the developer is more likely to have a realistic view of the technology.
I guess this depends a lot on your target demo. But but even just cutting down on usage of the exact term "AI" would help I think. Basically anything is better.
This is hilarious
I looked at your site. Realistically I think we're talking about two different things here. There are tools which were programmed with the assistance of AI and then there are AI powered tools. Your stuff is clearly the latter.
I think ai powered tools are a lot harder to sell people on right now. The ai powered area is where I see by far the most shovelware/slop.
To be blunt, when I see a new ai powered tool I assume several things:
I know this isn't true of every ai powered app but it's true of 99% of them right now. I really have no idea how you could convince people yours isnt slop.
One idea might be to stop using the term "AI". It's a buzzword with strong connotations. Some people hear it and think "gold rush", some people think "slop" or "data center".
Personally I would be a lot more likely to take a project seriously if they used the term "LLM" or "machine learning" to describe what powers the product.
Also, I don't see anything that looks like obvious AI art to me but DONT USE AI ART. AI art is already terrible on its own but when I see AI art mixed with AI text telling me about an AI powered app I'm 1000% done giving my attention.
That's not how AI works though. You can't feed data into an AI in a way that affects the answers other people get. It's not learning anything in real-time like that.
If you want to "feed data" into an AI system all you can really do is publish that data publicly and wait for it to be scraped up into their training data.
Edit: I'll admit that I overlooked the fact they do add conversations to training data but a single user is going to be weighted VERY low. Especially if their data looks like an outlier.
Seems pretty unlikely to me that you could really influence the model in a meaningful way like that.
Better off focusing on public/authoritative data that will get weighted a lot heavier.
I think this is a major over generalisation that misses the main point of why people don't want AI projects. The real questions are:
Idk how to address these things really. I could see the AI tag going both ways, but I do think it's painting with too broad a brush.
The famous future history book.
Anyone else read this post with a Scottish accent?
Dank
Ethics aside, this is a pretty based take IMO.
+10 year SWE who really loves programming.
This is more or less the advice I give to a novice now.
This checks out from my experience
I'm white but my name is unusual and foreign looking. I wonder how that plays out?
Political commentators get ironically assassinated in front of a crowds in broad daylight in the EU all the time. Just because it happened in the US once or twice this year doesn't mean anything.
I don't need to read it because the length of the message tells me everything I need to know.
Being right in this case would prove self evident very quickly.
There is no argument to be had here. If AI is as useful and as inevitable as you say then why even argue for it so aggressively?
When people shout so loudly about how great ai is, its pretty clear what they are really saying.
Obviously triggered something here. I'm not going to read all this.
I use AI. I've built agents from first principles. I've tried at these things. I've been down these roads.
I know where we stand right now and it's not the place that delusional tech bros think we are standing.
You seem very invested in the idea that this needs to work out. Like it's part of your identify now or something. You are defending this as if I attacked you personally.
Touch grass, talk to humans face to face.
You are delusional. It can't do even half of these things to a level that adds any value to the situation. A correction is coming.
And very likely to be the same "strong password" that someone else would get if they asked for one.
No, because "my uncle" didn't post a 6 paragraph essay that no one has ever read, but you are now expected to read.
At least he outlived the economy though...