Most commercial models were trained without permission via stolen artwork, copyrighted materials, etc...
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Because it's trendy and it's a new thing people can feel outraged about together. And when you really drill down into the arguments, the problem is invariably with the way technology is used under capitalism rather than technology itself.
I somewhat agree with you, the tech is amazing. But I also think that the current shape of "AI" is what it is due to a massive unsustainable investment directed in the vast majority by ill intent. The technology would not be what it is today without it being used for what is hated for. If you "fix" the hated parts then it becomes something entirely different to what it is today, if anything at all.
I think that the perspective that the tech is is hated because its trendy looses weight very rapidly when you realize that it would probably just not exist if not for the insane power-hungry assholes that are shoving it down our throats every damn day.
I don't really agree. I use this tech for coding, doing translations, speech to text transcriptions, extracting data from PDF documents, and none of these use cases would be different if the tech wasn't commercially driven. I also disagree that it wouldn't exist if it wasn't developed under our current dominant economic system. AI research has been around for a long time, and has been done extensively in socialist countries like USSR.
Its not that it wouldn't exist, its that the current form is shaped by the profit incentive. The fact that is a useful technology doesn't mean that the AI we are being forced to use is like that due to a capitalist mode of production. Coding help may be useful to a point, but its only so thanks to a massive level of compute power that wouldn't be available under a reasonable mode of production.
I wholeheartedly diasagree with the idea that a socialst world would have gone with this as a priority to the point of making it something like what we see know. Would it be developing it? For sure! Would it have anything related to its current most extended use cases? No way.
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Well hardly anyone here would claim that LLMs and machine learning are bad tech.
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i can't speak for everyone, but a lot of people are outraged that they have been replaced or soon will be. Millions of people will be unemployed. This is bad, because we are a consumer-based economy, and we're losing even more consumers.
After decades of low pay for most workers, this is the very last thing we need.
Keep in mind that the people against AI are usually very vocal about it, while the ones who use it stay quiet
Because of that, it's easy to get the wrong impression about how most people actually feel
while the ones who use it stay quiet
You clearly don't pay attention to hacker news
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I think most of the hate is because of it being touted as better than humans and shoved down everyone’s throats.
As for AI itself , it’s just a tool like any other. Use it wisely.
mostly ram prices, and shittify every service and program and search engine.
I have ADHD and OCD, which means writing reports, proposals, and even simple emails is very difficult for me in a number of ways. For the last year or so, I tell ChatGPT what I want to say and I work to polish or complete what it gives me, and out comes exactly what I wanted.
I'm not able to do that stuff myself. I'm just not mentally able to do it by myself. I strongly support ChatGPT and will continue to use it as long as I can.
I agree, though, that the data centres are helping destroy the Earth. I don't know how to reconcile that.
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I actually think the technology is interesting but it's being used by evil people to do evil things.
If it was trained on ethically source data and that just used to generate smeary anime girls and shit it would be a lot less objectionable.
I wonder why? 🤔🤔🤔
I don't even really care about AI art so much as we're just accelerating full retard into literal extinction event AGI at top speed with pretty much no regard for safety.
This is ending the human race now, in realtime and it's pretty much too late to stop.