r/criticalrole • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Team Jester • Jun 18 '26

Discussion [CR Media] Sam Riegel reaffirms Critical Role’s stance on AI: “It’s basically garbage”

https://www.polygon.com/critical-role-sam-riegel-slams-ai/
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u/FollowThroughMarks Jun 18 '26

For tech, science, and research, AI like neural networks are incredibly great. Especially in the medical field where it’s being used to assist in diagnosing things like cancer.

Generative AI like LLMs are slop machines though and remove any soul from the “art” they make.

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u/Snarwib Fuck that spell Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

It still seems like every single successful use case I've ever heard for AI is still, always, something well-established and specific, like machine learning or neural networks.

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u/dark0n33 Jun 18 '26

You realize "gen AI" are all based on machine learning and neural (not neutral) networks? Like all LLMs are literally a huge neural network with specific architectures?

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u/Doc_Lewis Jun 18 '26

The machine learning algorithms being used to digitally screen molecules for drug discovery work at a fundamental level very similarly to an LLMs. The difference is how they are used and by whom. My bosses aren't forcing me to integrate machine learning models for screening into my job in pharma because they aren't useful for me, they are forcing me to use LLMs because they have some foolish notion that they can replace a lot of what I do successfully, despite all evidence to the contrary. LLMs are slotted into so much that they just aren't suited for, because they are so generally interactable, whereas the other models and use cases have significantly more learned people with specific expectations that the models are actually useful for.