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Should /c/opensource allow AI / slop-coded project posts, or remove them? (lemmy.ml)
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We've been getting a lot of AI coded submissions recently, as well as lots of reports asking to remove them.

Should we remove these posts, or not?

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

+1 to remove them. 99% of those AI projects will go unmaintained and abandoned after a year, and their use more often than not impedes socialist efforts due to directly or indirectly supporting fascists tech companies.

  1. Simply using an AI that's run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

  2. Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of those giant corporations (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are ran by right-wing CEOs who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

[–] dropdrip@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

AI is a direct result of mass-surveillance. I'll repost what I wrote to a previous user:

Something you're not acknowledging is that this technology stems from surveillance-capitalism and the surveillance-state. Google et al were financed to solve the needs of the state. Google search for consumers was a by-product from the state's need and desire to make sense of their mass-surveillance programs.

Surveillance-capitalism operates under complete deception. Pokemon Go players didn't know they were collecting data for autonomous-murder-drones.

Solving Google's Captchas was unpaid labour: you were creating data for Google's OCR program and now you're creating data for autonomous cars or whatever their investors want you to toil on next.

The original iteration of reCAPTCHA was criticized for using unpaid work to assist in transcribing efforts.[40]

A 13-month study published in 2023, "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2," found that reCAPTCHA provides little security against bots and is primarily a tool to track user data, and has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of unpaid human labor.

Out of all this theft, unpaid labour and intrusive surveillance what does the working class get? Housing costs are increasing. Food costs are increasing. Poverty is increasing. What is AI going to do for us? It's not building houses. It's not harvesting crops. It's not giving the working class any material benefit, but is further degrading living conditions. Enjoy the endless drone of a data-center! Enjoy breathing the fumes of gas-turbines! Enjoy talking to chatbots and never a human!

AI is deployed as a barrier between the working class and businesses. AI is deployed to decrease labour costs. AI is deployed to kill. The fact you can create text, images, videos and audios that mimic reality only means more surveillance on the working class because digital-signals can be faked absolutely and are now suspect by default.

You can't eat what AI creates--it is completely immaterial, but it is being used to commit genocide. I'm sure that warms the cockles of the hearts in all of us.

I do not think AI use should be condoned.

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

That seems to me to be just more justification for why we should use it. We contributed to creating it, indirectly, so we should benefit from it's creation. Admittedly simple usage isn't sufficient, and all companies that offer LLM services should be heavily taxed, with that revenue redistributed to the populace, but that's a different argument.