@elena I’m very proud of you, seriously! Thanks for sharing this experience. You have every reason to be proud of yourself.
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@kiwiWolle thanks but I didn’t really do much… I just wanted to normalize speaking up when you’re one against 8 people who have opposing views.
I think it’s important to plant seeds and offer different perspectives. Gosh especially about LLMs… I don’t see any critical POVs in mainstream news here in France, just fawning. Ditto for regular people who don’t think twice about using them for simple searches that would be better conducted at the source.
I’m the wet blanket / Cassandra / Jiminy Cricket of the family… but I wouldn’t do things any other way 🥲
USPol, LLMs, personal life
@elena
Dear Elena, I must confess that sometimes I use LLM (not Gemini or OpenAi) for research about how use Linux XD! In general I agree with your post, and even I understand your position: it's very hard be felt as the "professoroni" by our relatives and friends!
At least with my parents during the family dinners we have the good habit to don't have phones!
#Resist
@ka_mo1 no judgement - there are lots of different use cases.
What makes my head explode is to see highly educated, otherwise smart people use LLMs as if they were search engines… so I feel like I have to speak up
@elena@aseachange.com it resonates so much with my family lunches. I managed to make everyone use Signal but I feel like I'm the only one being concerned by political topics in the IT. And it's like being the geek member of the family discredit me...
Anyway, I continue to speak up, even if I feel ignored ✊
@nathan my Christmas holidays summed up… What you said really resonates with me Nathan. I wrote the message to show that maybe we are the silent minority… but not alone… there are so many of us who feel this way
@elena It feels so frustrating feeling like I’m the only one speaking up when I hear blatant misinformation about LLMs and politics being brought up irl. I’ll pick my battles online but I can’t hold back when I hear such excuses as “ it’s just a machine, what’s so bad” while disregarding the environmental impact or notions that it “thinks” and isn’t just a racist pile of liner algebra trained on stolen data.
Thank you so much for sharing and speaking up.
@BroBot90001 I hear you. I can never stay silent on these issues… even if my speaking up creates tensions / strong disagreements.
I will always always speak up 🥲
@elena Bravo! 👏
It's hard to speak up in situations like that feeling like a lone wolf howling in the wilderness…but the thing I've found as I've grown older is it's harder not to speak up. Keeping truth bottled up inside eats away at your soul. I never want to go back to that horrible feeling!
@jaredwhite thanks Jared. Indeed, I always speak up even when I’m in the minority… eye rolls sting but it would sting even more to stay silent…
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