Technology

we gotta up those numbers

I disagree. I think the technology is halfbaked at best, and deeply damaging to all aspects of society in its current form/implementation regardless of political atmosphere (although, it certainly does not help)

For those who disagree, please note that i agree there are a select very few fields that require a specialized industry standard LLM for processing data in a tedious way. These are obviously not included, but the amount of users actually doing that is surely less than 50,000 highly academic individuals in the world. The entire rest of the usage is "destroying my codebase", "eroding my technical skills (that ive built over decades) in 2 weeks", "im too lazy to update my calendar i dont read anyways" and "bird-box bad guy-esque 'look at this uncreative garbage that no one wants to look at' posting"

Given to the public at any point in history in its current state would be overwhelmingly negative. The general public should not have access to this, and those that do should be highly regulated. Ideally it would have about 5 years or so longer to increse efficiency before deploying hundreds of databases everywhere all the time.

I understand this perspective, I believe. Greed, dehumanization and prioritizing profits over communities are some of the worst elements of the AI situation and hardly unique to it. That suggests AI is just one example of a larger political problem.

But AI is also uniquely bad on its on terms. It is a fundamentally unreliable technology. It is rooted in plagiarism and requires unethical practices to build, to maintain and to use. It is environmentally disastrous. It is mentally damaging, creating cognitive debt in those that use it for many tasks. It is damaging and insulting to artists. It creates a specific, if not yet fully understood, psychosis in certain at risk individuals.

LLMs, and more accurately the corporate drive for its sudden mass adoption, is exemplary of corporate greed and reckless companies trying to stick working class people with the bill for their terrible bet. It is exemplary of the eternal folly of people to want confirmation of their own biases rather than actual info. But its also a technological dead end built from shady and unreliable practices at the expense of our world and the people in it.

Sure, but fighting AI is also a fight against these corpos and unfettered capitalism.

I suppose some folks were saying that about hydrogen-filled zeppelins too, but it turns out that you can't just jam new tech down society's throat that way.

We now have helium and hot air airships and the tech is used way more appropriately.

I do take your point that what whipped up AI frenzy isn't just the tech, but the tech itself does needs to change before society will accept its ubiquity.

Meh. People would still use it to cheat on homework so they can spend 16 hours a day watching AI-generated brainrot.

Pretty consistently, about 4/10 Americans polled are irredeemable pieces of shit. Really closer to half.

We'll happily consume anything that hates on AI.

It's probably easier to think that when you're NOT in the country throwing away ludicrous amounts of money and resources on data centers. And in a country that'll probably punish you if you do something stupid like writing government papers with it, or I dunno, ask what you should be doing as the leader of the country.