AI's Utility vs. Ethical Cost: Users Divide on Trust in Predictive Tech

@ascentale @daihard @bikenite A3. No AI at all. I avoid AI by several reasons. Also, I don't trust the results. I get inspirations for cycling tours from other cyclists on the web, books with cycling routes and mostly by own experience reading maps. #bikenite

@ascentale @daihard @bikenite A3. I am in the "avoid anything using the word 'AI'" crowd, because I know almost enough about machine learning to be dangerous. There are some tasks for which it is well suited. Search and talking to humans are two for which it is not suitable. The harder part is finding decent human-created content. I rely on the IndieWeb, word-of-mouth on the #Fediverse / #BikeTooter / #BikeNite, and a few respected periodicals.

@ascentale @daihard @bikenite A3: zero. I actively avoid AI. If I wanted a guess of unknown veracity I'd just ask a random passer-by, no need to vandalise anything. Normally I use maps and guides produced by people, because those are generally reasonable. But I still use care, because some people are actively malicious when it comes to damaging wilderness (or just breaking laws - we have lots of illegal MTB trails on maps, for example) #BikeNite

I just had Claude write a search plugin for my Synology's Download Station. They're (the plugins) are impossible to scrounge up, hard to understand and write if you're not a programmer - but boy are they useful for finding.. stuff. I don't think there's a word to describe my feelings for AI at the moment. It's unnervingly efficient and amazingly useful..Unnervizingly? #claude #claudecode #AI

@ascentale @daihard @bikenite #BikeNite A3. I do not use AI. I know enough machine learning to have written software using it, but I place exactly zero trust in the type marketed as artificial intelligence.

@ascentale @bikenite @daihard A3: I try to avoid generative AI everywhere. It’s a huge energy & water suck. #BikeNite

@ascentale @daihard @bikenite A3: I don't. _Particularly_ for technical questions but in general, I rely 0% on so-called AI, actively avoiding it whenever possible. I note I say this as someone who was doing this in school before we even had the phrase "large language model." But that's what I was doing. #BikeNite