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sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoThe LLM shills have made “AI” refer exclusively to LLMs. Honestly the best ad campaign ever.
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sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoThe LLM shills have made “AI” refer exclusively to LLMs. Honestly the best ad campaign ever.
occultist8128@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Yes and it’s wrong either. Now most people here are also falling in the same hole. I’m here not to promote/support/standing with LLM or Gen-AI, I want to correct what is wrong. You can hate something but please, be objective
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Language is descriptive not prescriptive.
If people use the term “AI” to refer to LLMs, then it’s correct by definition.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Not really, since “AI” is a pre-existing and MUCH more general term which has been intentionally commandeered by bad actors to mean a particular type of AI.
AI remains a broader field of study.
occultist8128@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
I completely agree. Using AI to refer specifically to LLMs does reflect the influence of marketing from companies that may not fully represent the broader field of artificial intelligence. Sounds ironic to those who oppose LLM usage might end up sounding like the very bad actors they criticize if they also use the same misleading terms.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
It doesn’t matter what you want, I’m just describing how language works.
If everyone says a word means a thing, then it means that thing. Words can have multiple meanings.
occultist8128@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
It’s partially correct but AI don’t always mean it’s LLM. Etymology is important here. Don’t normalize illiteracy.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
This is how etymology works.
Do you think all the words we use today meant exactly the same thing 300 years ago?
No, people used it “incorrectly” and that usage gains popularity, and that makes it correct.
What you call illiteracy is literally how etymology works.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
If people use [slur] to refer to [demographic] that does not make it correct by definition.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Linguistically correct, and morally correct, are not the same thing.