Better Living through Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Weierman
6 min readAug 26, 2023

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Machine Learning

A humanoid robot pondering a wall of unrelated mathematical notes. It is the sort of generic yet somehow cool tech image you find when you search for Creative Commons licensed images of “artificial intelligence.”
CC-BY 2.0 Image via www.vpnsrus.com

Last year, I argued that you shouldn’t use AI Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate content for you. This year, I’ve seen entire Medium profiles filled with articles that were clearly not written by a human. Needless to say, these articles are not very good, for the reasons I’ve outlined here.

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Stephen Weierman

Stephen is a queer computer scientist, hacker, interreligious theologian, heretic, and spiritual nomad.