• Lugh@futurology.todayM
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    9 days ago

    isn’t remotely as useful as they’d claimed it would be.

    Maybe, i’m in the minority, but its made a huge improvement to my productivity. I’m self-employed & a big part of my work is making explainer videos & youtube content for clients. Generative AI has boosted that enormously, as has ChatGPT for simplifying software workflows/answering questions.

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      9 days ago

      So you’re a slop-monger. I think op meant useful as in useful for creating anything of value.

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        So you’re a slop-monger.

        Most of the speed improvements are when I’m using it to do things I previously did much more slowly with software, in particular After Effects.

        I’m not surprised at the backlash against generative AI & the widespread use of the term ‘slop’.

        But human creatives have always used tools. Once upon a time, practical effects people, & paper and pen animators would have seen After Effects computer generated animation & VFX as slop, too.

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      It’s useful for time saving when I don’t feel like remembering a proprietary syntax I only use once in a blue moon, or if my code is giving me an error message it can sometimes point out what’s wrong quicker than reading through the code manually, but I wouldn’t trust it to write my code without reviewing every detail of its output. The whole vibe coding movement is crazy to me

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        9 days ago

        This, sooo much. It’s been great for writing some python scripts quickly. But damn do you have to read and test that code, but I already did that with my own code so…

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      Yes you are in the minority as AI is shit at most tasks. It’s not reliable, and often completely wrong in what it barfs out