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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Generative AI is amazing for some niche tasks that are not what it's being used for

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What tasks are you thinking about?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Creating drafts for white papers my boss asks for every week about stupid shit on his mind. Used to take a couple days now it’s done in one day at most and I spend my Friday doing chores and checking on my email and chat every once in a while until I send him the completed version before logging out for the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Writing boring shit is LLM dream stuff. Especially tedious corpo shit. I have to write letters and such a lot, it makes it so much easier having a machine that can summarise material and write it in dry corporate language in 10 seconds. I already have to proof read my own writing, and there's almost always 1 or 2 other approvers, so checking it for errors is no extra effort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don’t think you know what “white paper” means

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is excellent for producing bland filler.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I understand this perspective, because the text, image, audio, and video generators all default to the most generic solution. I challenge you to explore past the surface with the simple goal of examining something you enjoy from new angles. All of the interesting work in generative AI is being done at the edges of the models' semantic spaces. Avoid getting stuck in workflows. Try new ones regularly and compare their efficacies. I'm constantly finding use cases that I end up putting to practical use - sometimes immediately, sometimes six months later when the need arises.