I’ve been thinking about the affordances of GenAI chatbots… There are hidden affordances, where it has capabilities not immediately apparent. There are also false affordances, where the chatbot seems to be usable for a certain thing, but it actually isn’t. Worst still, these false affordances are obscured by the chatbot’s tendency towards cheery sycophancy. An […]
Fighting the tech-centric glorification of Generative AI I cannot stress enough how important it is to fight against the tech-centric glorification of Generative AI. Allow me to present an example for your consideration, in relation to Large Language Models (LLMs). I recently watched a video on LinkedIn Learning to do with using the OpenAI Assistants […]
LLM-first search cites sources but hallucinates anyway I recently stopped using Google search because of what I affectionately (and exasperatingly) call GenAI slop. Not being able to disable the LLM generated responses at the top of search results finally became a deal breaker for me. In relation to this, I won’t be using ChatGPT search, […]