Officially terrified about AI now; it is spitballing

I may be late to the party, but this:

I have become used to google searches generating an AI summary from stuff that it has scraped. I even got used to it generating summaries (passably accurate in most cases) of stuff that I myself have written (various neologisms like the smugosphere, and emotacycle).

It was all a bit unnerving (alongside the astonishingly detailed and often accurate summaries on Otter.Ai).

But just now I was googling to see if anyone had written about “hermeneutic insufficiency” – something I just coined in this blog post.

And the google search seems to suggest that nobody has ever written about hermeneutic insufficiency – all the search finds are for hermeneutic injustice etc. But right there at the top is the AI overview of hermeneutic insufficiency.

Hermeneutical insufficiency is a lack of conceptual resources that can prevent people from understanding their own experiences or making them clear to others. It can occur when: 

• A person doesn’t have access to the relevant concepts 
• The concepts needed to understand an experience don’t exist yet 
• A person belongs to a marginalized social group 
• The society a person lives in doesn’t care about their experiences 

Hermeneutical insufficiency is a type of epistemic injustice, which is when people are prevented from understanding their own experiences or making others understand them. It can have a number of negative consequences, including: Confusion, Isolation, and Vulnerability to harassment. 

Hermeneutical insufficiency can be traced back to structural injustices, such as identity prejudices. The powerful have an unfair advantage in shaping collective social understandings, which can lead to hermeneutical domination. 

The Entity is now spit-balling. Truly the end times are upon us.

Update: Ah, there are 10 references to HermIns on googlescholar. So maybe the Entity isn’t, in fact, spit-balling. Yet.

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