A novelist accused of using AI. Why the literary world still grapples with guardrails - Page 4

Courant · 04-17-2026, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Are you (@Quoth) ever going to get tired of telling people that AI is not actually intelligent? It's not like people don't know this already. Branding terms rarely match real world definitions. We're used to these discrepancies. Let's move on. Please.

Or maybe we should all start referring to AI as: the technology which will cause Quoth to once again techsplain in excruciating detail to us morons why we shouldn't use the term(s) that the rest of the world has already fully adopted/embraced.

AI seems much simpler (not to mention quicker), though.

Where is the detail? and maybe you meant Treksplain?

DiapDealer · 04-17-2026, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Quoth

Will you get tired of bullying people that upset your fixed opinions on so called AI?

You are like a shill for Anthropic.

Many people believe the hype and the claims made of intelligence.

Are you ever going to learn the difference between bullying and disagreeing? Or do you believe you have some inalienable right to flog dead horses without anyone noticing or taking issue with it?

And let me say this once again because you seem to forget very quickly from one thread to the next: I personally don't have any use for AI tech right now. I've turned it off everywhere that uses it. Maybe I'll try dabbling again later, maybe not. I just prefer not to push my opinions (pro or con) of AI onto others--like some seem to. Please explain thoroughly how that makes me "shill" for anything/anyone? If anything, I'm a shill for letting people have conversations about AI without you dropping by to shove (for the 400th time) your unsolicited bias (and pointless semantics about their use of the word "Intelligence") about it down their throats.

rkomar · 04-17-2026, 03:51 PM

Artificial intelligence doesn't have to involve real intelligence, it just has to fulfill the same function (like artificial turf, artificial flavour, artificial limbs,... do). If the technology learns and is providing relevant information to general language queries, then artificial intelligence is an apt name for it. It doesn't really matter how it is implemented, or even that it is spectacularly wrong at times. It's about what we use it for.

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04-17-2026, 03:51 PM	#48
rkomar Wizard Posts: 3,116 Karma: 18944169 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	Artificial intelligence doesn't have to involve real intelligence, it just has to fulfill the same function (like artificial turf, artificial flavour, artificial limbs,... do). If the technology learns and is providing relevant information to general language queries, then artificial intelligence is an apt name for it. It doesn't really matter how it is implemented, or even that it is spectacularly wrong at times. It's about what we use it for.