DEEPL now has a Writer https://www.deepl.com/write - very nice, fast and available in multiple languages. Write better texts, instantly.
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net yeesh, it’s a for-pay company I wouldn’t give them the output of your mind for free and train their AI for them.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci naja. It is a good helper tool. German Based Company. And yes, you can also get a paid account. But which text correct should I use then?
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Who says you need to use anything like that? Where’s the pressure coming from?
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net The point @abucci@anthony.buc.ci is making here is just how easily we are willing to give up our personal thoughts and minds to train other companies AI models.
It is straight out of the page of big tech companies that profit off all your data using targeted advertising and selling that data to the highest bidder.
It seems we (in general) have not learned any lessons from the past ~20yrs of this tactic used on the general population 🤦♂️
There is (I assure you there will be, don’t know what it is yet…) a price to be paid for this convenience.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci There is no pressure. I just find it very helpful in my daily conversation. I have to write so many emails to so many idiots who have no idea what they are doing. But WE need their input for our work, and we kind of rely on their willingness to give us their data (by contract) in a certain time frame. Often they do not send anything and we run after them a lot. I asked if I could write something called a “brand letter” in German. But my boss refused. So, I have to write nice texts so as not to annoy them. #IfYouSeeThisBossDontFireMe :-)
I have to write so many emails to so many idiots who have no idea what they are doing
So it sounds to me like the pressure is to reduce how much time you waste on idiots, which to my mind is a very good reason to use a text generator! I guess in that case you don’t mind too much whether the company making the AI owns your prompt text?
I’d really like to see tools like this that you can run on your desktop or phone, so they don’t send your hard work off to someone else and give a company a chance to take it from you.
@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net
There is (I assure you there will be, don’t know what it is yet…) a price to be paid for this convenience.
Exactly prologic, and that’s why I’m negative about these sorts of things. I’m almost 50, I’ve been around this tech hype cycle a bunch of times. Look at what happened with Facebook. When it first appeared, people loved it and signed up and shared incredibly detailed information about themselves on it. Facebook made it very easy and convenient for almost anyone, even people who had limited understanding of the internet or computers, to get connected with their friends and family. And now here we are today, where 80% of people in surveys say they don’t trust Facebook with their private data, where they think Facebook commits crimes and should be broken up or at least taken to task in a big way, etc etc etc. Facebook has been fined many billions of dollars and faces endless federal lawsuits in the US alone for its horrible practices. Yet Facebook is still exploitative. It’s a societal cancer.
All signs suggest this generative AI stuff is going to go exactly the same way. That is the inevitable course of these things in the present climate, because the tech sector is largely run by sociopathic billionaires, because the tech sector is not regulated in any meaningful way, and because the tech press / tech media has no scruples. Some new tech thing generates hype, people get excited and sign up to use it, then when the people who own the tech think they have a critical mass of users, they clamp everything down and start doing whatever it is they wanted to do from the start. They’ll break laws, steal your shit, cause mass suffering, who knows what. They won’t stop until they are stopped by mass protest from us, and the government action that follows.
That’s a huge price to pay for a little bit of convenience, a price we pay and continue to pay for decades. We all know better by now. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It doesn’t make sense. It’s insane.