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highplainsdem

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16. You're very welcome!

Wed Jun 10, 2026, 03:10 PM

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We get so many lies and so much hype from the AI bros pushing generative AI. It's important to keep ML's real contributions to science separate from genAI.

I'm not sure what's going to happen with genAI. My hope is that the tremendous waste of time and resources will soon look as misguided as the Dutch tulip mania...but the genAI frenzy is already much more damaging to many aspects of our society, and potentially much more of a financial catastrophe than the tulip mania was. So many people invested in genAI, from business owners to school admins to venture capitalists, have incentives to try to keep hyping AI as long as the bubble is in any way sustainable. And the AI bros have the corrupt and perpetually lying Trump regime behind them.

I found the OP about the article on AI you referred to: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221221280 .

Their reasoning is similar to Ed Zitron's.

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Vaccine made by AI will shield against mutations [View all] Celerity 13 hrs ago OP

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As someone who gets colds that last 3 weeks, I'm hoping this works EdmondDantes_ 9 hrs ago #2

And now anti-vax AI cheerleaders find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. tanyev 8 hrs ago #3

Until AI decides Trashman272 8 hrs ago #4

The term "AI" has become shorthand for so many things that it's irresponsible to use it to describe what's happening WhiskeyGrinder 8 hrs ago #5

Do you know more details about the methodology ? I'm no expert here, but I'm guessing this was basically ... eppur_se_muova 7 hrs ago #6

you're right WhiskeyGrinder 7 hrs ago #8

See reply 10. highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #11

Yup. The headline would make people believe they typed "design a vaccine for me" in Claude or something. Oneironaut 7 hrs ago #7

yep it's the kind of work that's been going on for years before "chatgpt" or "claude" were so widely promoted WhiskeyGrinder 6 hrs ago #9

I agree. See reply 10. highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #12

Researchers used all the genetic sequencing data collected for Sarbeco coronaviruses by monitoring programmes around the Celerity 3 hrs ago #14

Testing of the new vaccine started in 2021. They used machine learning to develop the vaccine before that. NOT genAI, highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #10

Thanks for taking the effort to put together a very informative reply ! I've read about things like large-scale surveys eppur_se_muova 4 hrs ago #13

You're very welcome! highplainsdem 1 hr ago #16

"researchers found no significant side-effects." LudwigPastorius 2 hrs ago #15