You’re absolutely right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I continue to be one of those people using AI, but in a way that I hope isn’t too insufferable; or at least, I try to be sensitive to the suffering it may cause to those around me. I also feel like I am using it in a certain way: an emerging sub-sect of practice for a certain clientele. It may be age-related: I am someone who believes in hypertext, in composable tools, and malleable interfaces, in people writing and sharing their code, of owning the means of computation, and a free culture of sharing. I am also very Unixy, which is not unrelated. Why yes, I do own a mechanical keyboard, why do you ask?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My etiquette is tied up with all this, I think: I resonated with Alex Martsinovich’s It’s rude to show AI output to people<\/a>, whose guidelines I find myself following. I don’t, as he warns, just say “Hey I asked ChatGPT this and it said”, or (even worse) paste the slop directly into the chat. I do think, like Fedora<\/a> may, that one should be transparent about AI usage. And my added twist is that I really want to make my use of LLMs transparent and reproducible<\/em>, to the extent that LLMs are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To give an example, a friend of mine pointed me to the writer Samantha Hancox-Li<\/a>, and I was curious to understand her journal, Liberal Currents<\/a>, better. I found a Youtube video<\/a> explaining it, but I didn’t really need to spend the time watching the whole video. So I grabbed the subtitles, fed that into a LLM, and asked it for a detailed summary. That answered my question, but I wanted to check in to make sure the model wasn’t on crack, so I threw a tiny bit of it into my chat with my friend, along with a “does this sound right?”. I sat between my friend and the LLM, I’d signalled that it may be unreliable, I’d edited it so that it was relevant and interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But also, I wanted to show the process<\/em>, including my own potential mistakes and biases that might have led to anything wrong. So I stuck this at the end of my mesage to show my working:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This lets you regenerate the text that I used (of course, it won’t be exactly the same, because llms rarely repeat themselves, but as time goes on, it’ll probably be a better<\/em> summary). It also shows what I am depending on, including my own prompt and the programs I used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This seems to be both polite in the way that Martsinovich would like us to be, lives up to my own personal set of ethics. It’s also a bit of an affectation and I’m not sure how long or consistently I’ll do it — but hey, sometimes these nerdish quirks become as fleeting and ephemeral as writing your geekcode<\/a> or hand-crafting micro-formats<\/a>, and sometimes they become smileys and markdown. I hope dearly that llm’s skill at coding (and explaining coding) will mean we can throw around such executable fragments until we all become a little literate in programs as well as words.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’re absolutely right! I continue to be one of those people using AI, but in a way that I hope isn’t too insufferable; or at least, I try to be sensitive to the suffering it may cause to those around me. I also feel like I am using it in a certain way: an emerging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --skip-download -o \"\/tmp\/subs.%(ext)s\" \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FfZWlFjmmo0\"\nfiles-to-prompt \/tmp\/subs.en.vtt | \nllm \"Can you turn this transcript into a (detailed) description of the conversation\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n