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Could you explain why it would be in any way relevant if that was the case?
I'm interested in the people that make the stuff I consume. When I read something or enjoy a piece of art, much of the enjoyment is imagining why the artist made the decisions they did. If it was made by AI, the answer is much less interesting.
AI generated is just a stand in for hollow & over-dramatized here. Probably I could enjoy AI generated content if it wasn't shit. The claims on the site reminiscent of 14y/o skids trying to scare each other: "uhhh I got your IP I will hack you now!1!1", except now you have access to some chatbot subscription to make it sound like it's a big deal.
So, just say that. You think site is hollow and over dramaticized.
It is a big deal how much the browser shares about you without people realizing. No one thinks about these things.
If you use a VPN on Spain you might think you're safe but then your timezone is saying you're in Ireland. You thought you were fooling them buy you really aren't. You can't outsmart fingerprint and I wish people made a bigger deal about this so actual solutions get implemented.
Sites like these raise awareness which is quite important.
https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is
I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.
In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn't us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don't want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I'm seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.
I mean that's fine, but plenty of things in our modern life are mass produced, and utilitarian. Everything doesn't need to be art. For example, I don't need my toothbrush to be crafted by an artisan, nor do I care if a website that shows stats collected by the browser was artisanally coded or not.
I'm actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:
Art is a matter of perspective.
Maybe you don't care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.
Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can't ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.
What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.
You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren't any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another...
That's just a complete straw man that stems from having utter lack of understanding how people actually use LLMs. Here's one example for you from Terence Tao https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren't utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.
These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it's brought with it.
And the rest of us are just tired of people braying about AI in every single thread. People just have to learn how to deal with their personal issues without spamming about their feelings everywhere. I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point. These tantrums add absolutely nothing to any discussion, and they're just noise.
"I'm tired of listening to people complain about their or their friends lives being uprooted and my indifference to those problems"
Good, it's working. People are shying away from creating/posting AI content, knowing it's very vocally unwanted.
Not really, people are just tired of your spam.
People are tired of slop.
I'm tired of people screeching about slop in every thread about any subject. Please try being tired of slop quietly in your own head. Or make a community where people who enjoy hearing other people screech about slop can yell at each other how much you all hate slop.
I'm perfectly fine here in this community of people telling you to take the slop elsewhere.
yes, you're perfectly fine being part of an obnoxious crowd of people flooding every thread to prevent any meaningful conversation from happening with your slop
We're not the root cause of the disruption.
Yes, you literally are. Your slop is distracting from meaningful conversations.
The root cause is people posting AI slop where it's not welcome. If they could at least take that somewhere else, discussions could continue in peace.
Do you complain about people asking you to take a shower or leave because they don't like to smell you?
Nobody made you the arbiter of what's welcome. I don't find your noise welcome. If you choose to be obnoxious don't expect people to agree with the message you're trying to deliver.
You're getting enough opposition from enough people to be annoyed by it. You may safely assume that the community has decided what's welcome and what isn't.
both of you must be very proud
If it's only two people including me, it should be very easy to block us and continue on your merry way.
And you'll just continue harassing other people. The problem with you lot is that you declare something to be LLM generated, without any actual evidence I might add, then derail the whole thread so you can bray about how much you hate AI. You are far more obnoxious than any AI generated content I've seen.
Weird, it's as if you haven't read a thing I've written.
You will continue to be told to remove the AI slop. Get with the times or be left behind because opposition against AI slop is here to stay. It is much better for your mental health to stop resisting. Not everybody is born privileged with a talent for spamming communities with unwanted content. Opposing AI slop is democratising access to people's attention.
You can stomp your feet all you like, but all you add is noise and toxicity. You're basically like an annoying mosquito hovering around conversations people are trying to have.
And yet you find it impossible to ignore us.
yes, like annoying mosquitoes, being an annoyance is not something most people are proud of, but clearly you've set your standards low
Right back atcha.
I'm not the one sealioning into your threads
because if you lack the ability to discern whether or not something is actual useful feedback or hallucinated AI garbage then it's worthless
"knowing" something wrong is arguably worse than not knowing anything at all
Oh boy, if you think humans are never wrong and trust human generated content implicitly, prepare to be surprised.
rank condescension aside
if you are somehow incapable of realizing that leaning on AI only exacerbates the problem you're talking about then idk what to tell you
The point here is that we already lived in a world where you can't just take things on faith. The AI changes fuck all about that.
yeah your point was easily understood the first time, mine was that there's no reason to go out of your way to make the problem worse by constantly shitting out slop everywhere
but you seem to greatly enjoy your garbage so whatever