Use generative "AI" to spitball, hypothesize, overcome the tyranny of the blank page? I mean if the environmental costs weren't astronomical & the training corpra weren't largely stolen, then yeah, sure. Use it for facts? Knowledge? To fully *Replace* thought, feeling, & creativity? Absolutely not.

And yes, the use of algorithms & machine learning to arrange search results based on profit motive has been a big problem for consensus knowledge for a long time, & everything here ↓, Safiya Noble and others long ago first wrote about as applying to said parameters of search. And LLMs make it worse.

It drives me crazy that in the #genealogy where the #1 rule is to cite your sources that people are willing to embrace generative AI technology where the source of the so-called information is deliberately obscured. GenAI also steals the spotlight from useful work like handwriting recognition.

You are speaking the truth.

Literally saw on ad on prime earlier from Dell, advertising AI to detect fallen trees on train tracks "and look at this futuristic emergency response team that ensures you get places on time" and I'm just... First off "lol" at a functional train system in this country. But also not an issue for it.

Just get some friends or at least a collegial work/topic group if you want to hypothesize, spitball, get started on a blank page and find it hard to do on your own. Doesn't require destructive software. The people creating this grift don't have those so they made this junk.