Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)
I really hate generative AI, because there are many reasons to hate it. It's abilities depend on stolen data; it uses so much electricity it's messing with climate goals and made them restart 3 Mile Island; it's riddled with all the biases you'd expect; and the sales pitch from companies with billions of dollars on the line has smelled of snake oil from day one.
I'm also mad at it for professional reasons.
First, I am an ecological psychologist, so I have things to say about whether these systems can be intelligent. They can't: they are made only of language, and intelligence ...