AI is a tool to transfer even more wealth, under the current conditions.
GenAIs are a mistake, but corps decided to stuff billions into it, and they want their money back.
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I know that's not the intention, but saying it like that slides into apology territory.
We should be absolutely appalled at the firing, maybe to a lesser extent, but there is no better time to point out this than during a big event.
It's kinda like saying 'protestors should not disrupt public spaces', like they have done everything else, what else do people need to wake up and draw the line?
I've seen people on the internet suggesting Darktable as a solid Lightroom replacement... I don't know anything about photo editing, but am curious - how bad is it?
We've just had survey at work about genAI, a large part of the devs use Linux and LLMs, yet nobody could explain how genAI works.
I was very surprised.
You would be surprised.
An awful lot of people, including Linux users, are into genAI. And not many understand anything behind it.
That's the neat part.
Ever since 'journalism' has been reduced to reposting social media posts, there is very little reputation to be had.
The community notes appear many hours after the original has been posted, meaning that majority of interactions will be before any notes will be attached. And even the process of choosing the community notes is not transparent, so you can never be sure that the note does its job even after it'd added.
The current drive behind AI is not progress, it's locking knowledge behind a paywall.
As soon as one company perfects their AI, it will draw everyone to use it, marketing it as 'time saver' so you don't have to do anything (including browsing the web, which is in decline even now). Just ask and you shall receive everything.
Once everyone gets hooked, and there won't be any competiton left, they will own the population. News, purchase recommendations, learning, everything we do to work on our congitive abilities will be sold through a single vendor.
Suddenly you own the minds of many people, who can't think for themselves, or search for knowledge on their own... and that's already happening.
And it's not the progress I was hoping to see in my lifetime.
Hey, Deepseek needed way more time for half of that!
What about Israel? Aren't they sucking you dry? Perhaps add some tariffs there?
The current technology is a dead end, and we need to go back to the drawing board with it.
But before we can do that, we need to sell the current version, because we lost a lot of money on it....