'Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit'
Yesss. Burn it with fire.
So I had all the expected feelings about this (anger, exhaustion, disappointment, grief, etc) and went away to live my life and touch yarn and try not to obsess.
And then I realized two days later that this hits a lot (way, way too many) of the same points that I'm running into with the current state of K-12 science education curriculum in the US.
So now I'm having a whole lot of feelings actually.
Yuuuuuup.
Also, if anyone doesn't recognize the name, Kate Davies is a great knitting pattern designer, most known for those cabled owls patterns. Personally, I recommend the Carbeth:
Also available as a kit from the KDD shop.
The key feature I keep seeing from gen AI evangelists is that they just cannot believe that experts exist. They often do agree that AI isn't all that great at one or two fields they know a lot about, but it can totally do at least the low-level work in others.
But it can't. It regurgitates common prejudices and tropes. It writes samey, boring essays that say nothing. The art it makes might occasionally get the hands right if we tweak it enough...
But it will still think that knitting is only done by a fantasy of 1950s tradwife whiteness.
