@darius @hipsterelectron I have a problem that's almost the inverse: when someone makes claims about how it "helps" them in their work, I automatically think somewhat less of them, consider them at least a bit irresponsible, and question whether they ever really understood their own work in the first place. I haven't figured out how to handle it rhetorically, so I don't mention it much, but it makes me cringe whenever it comes up.
Darius Kazemi
@delta_vee @hipsterelectron I've been making bots that do interesting pattern things with language for about fifteen years, and one of the things I've learned is that people have wild apophenic responses to things and also very little intuition or skepticism (literacy, broadly speaking) about generative systems. At first I felt like you did, now I feel more complicated about it, like I can't blame people for being... people about things, I guess?