Asklemmy

I don't hate AI. I use AI. I criticize AI, because it's a tool and it's being misused.

I criticize how people and specially companies use AI....

If you can't tell that the outputs are bad then you just have bad taste. People hate it because it sucks and it drowns out what's real.

It's an exploitation tool with no benefit to actual people.

Because it sucks ass, fucking duh

Capitalism

AI is great. AI under capitalism is awful.

It is the dot com bubble all over again, we all know the internet completely transformed the world but during that hyperphase anything with .com was getting money tossed at it.

We are in the same phase with AI. It will likely completely transform tech and medicine and a number of other fields. However 90% of what is being pushed right now is not good uses for it. They are masking the real costs for it. We are likely going to end up with an oversupply of datacenters just like all the unused dark fibre we had in the .com age. It will eventually transform into more useful things but "most" not "all" of it is hype right now.

There are some basic responsibilities they need to meet like not violating copyright and licensing on source material creating a double standard where corp slop can pirate without charges but individuals can't and building and running data centers that aren't in conflict with the community they are running in. They also should have warnings about anthropomorphizing language models that don't think or reason but I'd settle for the first two to start.

As usual it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the dumbass way it's implemented in a profit motive

I don’t hate ‘AI’, I don’t acknowledge it exists.

None of the use cases of LLMs I’ve observed can in any way be legitimately argued to be a form of intelligence, and anyone arguing otherwise is betraying their absence of said trait.

LLMs are explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion spinsters, which is why all the logos for ‘AI’ companies are variations of arseholes.

Because the endgame of the way we are developing the technology is not Star Trek but I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

It's an existential threat, a Great Filter.

Been around long enough to know that we are being sold on a lie that's real purpose is extracting wealth at the fastest rate possible from the lower 99% while providing unknown risks and low likelihood of benefits to most of the population. The only "AI" that currently works well is a very fast database searcher. It is better than a human at that task but requires humans to create the database and all the information in it first in order for it to work. The only "AI" that seems to be possibly "thinking" for itself is hopeless, wrong, and/or very destructive.

It's because AI in the form of LLMs is a piece of SHIT BS lies generator FUCKING GODDAMN copyright theft! SHITTY ASS LIAR CLANKER dumb bot

for every reason.

'cause i'm a hater and being a hater RULES have you tried it? much better than prompting a hundred times for something that looks or reads likes shit

The reasons why so many people hate it. Are lengthy.

A big one is we see jobs already being eliminated. And people like to live in this fantasyland that oh there’ll be new jobs created. But anybody who has studied history, realizes that that’s not going to happen in this case.

For example, when we switched from horse and buggy to motorized vehicles,. The people built the buggies they could be cross trained to build the vehicles. Jobs were created.

When we switched from the mechanical typewriter to the electronic typewriter that was easy cross train. When we moved away from the electronic typewriter to a computer, there were jobs created.

Here’s the problem that we run into. Let’s just look at accounting. Many jobs in the accounting field can be done by a properly trained AI system. Most data entry jobs can be done by AI. Many programming jobs are being handed off to AI. You were seeing this across all industries. Whereare the jobs going to be actually created at?

There are some data entry jobs to program AI. But those are minimum wage jobs at best.

As AI becomes better and better, they will be able to take more and more jobs.

We are already seeing AI being used to create music. There goes a lot of musicians jobs. There a goes a lot of songwriting jobs.

This is becoming a very large problem. Because you will still have the same number of people looking for work, but you’ll have less jobs. That means the pay for said jobs will drop drastically. Supply and demand.

The people who truly believe there will be magically new jobs created as far as I’m concerned or absolutely delusional.

Another big problem is it limits human interaction. I know there’s a lot of people that don’t want to talk to anybody, but here’s the reality. Humans are social creatures. As we become More and more isolated, It becomes harder for us to sympathize and empathize with other people. That makes it easier to create divisions between people. Trust me, the governments will absolutely use that to their benefit.

I like humans and human creativity and human intelligence and I think everyone using a technology that actively makes you bad at those things while spitting out crappy jumbled regurgitations of someone else's work is not a good thing.

People here are privy to the many downsides of rapid AI adoption vs Facebook grandmas who use it to make memes and identify weird bugs in their house.

This whole thread is a great honeypot for my ‘AI Techbro’ user tag!

I can agree with most of the points in the thread. Especially the forced use of AI where it makes no sense.

I'm a software engineer going on my second decade in developing media streaming technologies.

LLMs are useful in my day-to-day work. They speed up development a lot, but I do realise that I am getting disassociated with my codebase. I know that the individual commits are on a level that I would've written myself, often even better. But I don't know the codebase as intimately as if I actually wrote it myself. The cognitive load of reviewing two other people's AI-assisted code is also very taxing.

But, we can hate it as much as we want. Pandora is out of her box, and it's better to get ahead with it than be left behind.

mostly ram prices, and shittify every service and program and search engine.

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

Most commercial models were trained without permission via stolen artwork, copyrighted materials, etc...

I wonder why? 🤔🤔🤔