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“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

"But I still want to get paid for it."

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 110 points 2 months ago

Another idiot who thinks "prompt engineering" is a real skill and not just another step those companies are using idiots for free AI training.

You ask AI to draw a ninja turtle on a skateboard, and that "effort" they put into phrasing their request well enough for the AI to understand makes the AI learn the 10 past attempts were looking for what the 11th got

And now it won't take ten tries to go that route

Any "skill" by the user has a very short expiration date because the next version won't need it thanks to all the time users spent developing those "skills".

But no one impressed with AI is smart enough to realize that. And since they're the on s training the AI....

Idiots in, idiots out

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 48 points 2 months ago

"Promp engineering" is as useful skill as Google fu used to be.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I completely agree. I wonder whether some IT bachelor's degrees now have lessons in AI prompting. I remember in 2005 there was a course we had to do which could've been labeled "[shitty] Google-Fu" or something. "information searching" is what it would more or less translate to. Basically searching using Google and library searches well. And I don't mean "library" in the IT-context, but actual libraries. With books. Just had to use the search tools the locals libraries had.

Such a fucking filler class.

In my year like 60 started, two classes. After three years like 8 graduated.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's kinda dead now due to enshittification but the vast majority of humans I've interacted with could use a class on how to use a search engine.

Edit- it could be made more modern by showing how to ignore sponsored stuff, blatantly SEO shit, AI shit, etc

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 2 months ago

Im old enough to have to learn to use AND, OR and NOT to be used on search engines.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

My email service, Port87, uses boolean operators in its search language. Polish notation, even!

And the library that does it is open source:

https://nymph.io/packages/query-parser/

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Boolean operators!

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

If the class had actually had any useful information in it, sure.

It was not the greatest class.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago

I've worked with tons of people who do not understand how to effectively use search engines. Maybe this was done poorly but it seems reasonable enough to me in principle.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don’t know about that, in particular, because people generally add more detail, but it teaches the AI what kind of detail to add. So if you’re not picky, then yeah, the AI learns from that kind of thing.

As far as it being a useful skill, I don’t think it was in the first place. “Prompt engineer” has always been a joke. It’s like being a “sandwich artist”. Everyone can do it with one day of practice.

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