Stop generating, start thinking - localghost

In the wake of the Horizon scandal, where innocent Post Office staff went to prison because of bugs in Post Office software that led management to think they’d been stealing money, we need to be thinking about our software more than ever: we need accountability in our software.

Nice write up. I see the same points that I’ve seen elsewhere. I don’t think it’s the engineers driving this revolution though. It’s the business leaders doing that. There is a fomo in the industry - people are committed to AI without having any use case for it.

Regarding accountability it will fall on the reverse-centaurs, the people left to deal with the large amounts of AI generated work. Nobody will say Claude made a mistake, it’s the employees who made mistakes by not verifying what was generated. It will not be a great place, but we are barreling toward it.

Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media by Emma Roth

Zuckerberg added that apps currently “feel like algorithms that recommend content.” But that’s going to change, according to Zuckerberg, as Meta’s apps will eventually greet users with AI that “understands” them, can serve up content they like, and “generate great personalized content.”

Such a future would allow Meta to bring content creation in-house and stop paying the pesky content creators a cut of the ad revenue. Also more control over what gets published and so on.

What’s not to like?