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why do we have guides and lessons on how to use a chainsaw when we can hack the tree with an axe?


The chainsaw doesn't sometimes chop off your arm when you are using it correctly.


If you swing an axe with a lack of hand eye coordination you don't think it's possible to seriously injure yourself?


Was the axe or the chainsaw designed in such a way that guarantees that it will definitely miss the log and hit your hand fair amount of the times you use it? If it were, would you still use it? Yes, these hand tools are dangerous, but they were not designed so that it would probably cut off your hand even 1% of the time. "Accidents happen" and "AI slop" are not even remotely the same.

So then with "AI" we're taking a tool that is known to "hallucinate", and not infrequently. So let's put this thing in charge of whatever-the-fuck we can?

I have no doubt "AI" will someday be embedded inside a "smart chainsaw", because we as humans are far more stupid than we think we are.




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