honestly "the chatbots are essentially the fae" would probably be better for normies as a mental model
I truly think the fact that computers can now parse and respond in natural language, with the tint of a human personality, causes these systems to bypass the critical faculties of many people. AI becomes a mythcal hybrid creature, and we become fascinated in it, and grant it reverence.
yeah there's a reason pattern's named after a nonhuman sapient piece of divine power that's the manifestation of a human conception of truth and lies. it's the intuitive conceptual handle for the little entities.
At least fairies keep their promises.
Too bad Unix already uses the word "daemon" to refer to background processes. It'd be such a good term to describe an "agent".
The Fae or unicorns
I have one set of impish sprites leading me to a watery grave and now you’re telling me they’re online too? Scary!
Like, Jim Butcher’s version of the fae (Harry Dresden). They’re not nice, don’t trust them, if you see one, run.
Think very carefully about the words when engaging with an AI, much as you would a fae.
I mean a large slab of cast iron applied with sufficent force also kills a computer stone dead, so why not
Count the fingers. Count the teeth.
Bravo! That’s the most accurate metaphor I’ve seen! 👍🏼🫡
Fae is a good option. Or trickster. Or just teach people that “computers never lie” has never really been true…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster
No-one’s told the normies about the fae tho.
I'm deeply uncomfortable with slandering the fae in this way 😉
Rather than a creature that can never lie but will still mislead, we have something that can ONLY lie but is occasionally still correct.
"do not trust this entity even if it seems to do what you say"
Ye gods what an awful thing to say. Have ye no respect?
I mean normies don’t know how to handle the fae either
"Never eat anything offered by an LLM in a Dream..."
Ugh, there’s going to be a new religion, isn’t there?
Seems like there can't be any middle ground these days. AI is either the second coming of our lord and savior, or it's absolutely lucky nonsense.
Kent Beck was calling them genies 😄
We’ll have just as much trouble telling chatbots from people as we already have telling fae from people
One does not make deals with the fae. One respects them, and leaves them be.
This does mean that the best way to deal with them is avoid them, or pelt them with horse shoes.
