rabiezaater

How is it a false equivalence?

I appreciate your distinction between capitalism and AI. Many attribute the maladies of hyper late stage capitalism (enshittification, data hoovering, algorithmic engagement tuning, etc) to AI, when one is just a symptom of the other.

I agree on the overhype and hope for the industry. I do not want LLMs to go away, and there are plenty of open source non commercial LLM projects out there. I look forward to the day when I can just download a local LLM assistant that has all the capabilities of the best models today. Once someone figures that out, I think the corporations who have poured hundreds of billions into massive data centers will start collapsing.

Are you saying I am being disingenuous in my intentions by making counter points in a discussion? Is reflecting people's ideas back to them the only way to understand them?

I don't disagree, the current administration is that dumb. Hopefully their popularity continues to drop like a stone and in an election cycle we will be off dumb island.

The whole "doing serious damage" part is where I disagree. The damage attributed is usually due to the ultra wealthy and capitalism, not due to AI itself.

Right. That's my entire point though. There are some positives, and some negatives. The dialogue I have seen around AI has basically boiled down to "AI is killing the planet and making us dumber", when the reality is actually a lot more nuanced.

Ok, so just to clarify you basing your hate off of anecdotal evidence and a fear of getting fucked over by corporations (which has been happening long before and completely unrelatedly to AI)?

Both. I think people don't even realize that there are non llm AI applications, and it has done a disservice to the field in general.

Glad to see some sanity for once on here. It's definitely not all good, but it's not all bad either, and when people attribute all the evils of the world to it, they are being disingenuous.

Fully agree that children should not be exposed to ai content, and age restrictions would be warranted (which ironically I think a lot of people on the fediverse would not be happy about).

Ok, that's one study. Here is a review of dozens of studies that shows a positive impact on education.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X25001699

Yea, I am really getting disillusioned with the discussions on the fediverse around a lot of important topics, not just AI. I could picture a response from someone in this thread as "good, fuck off AI shill". Not a very productive or healthy place for a discussion, as much as I support the goals and motivations behind the fediverse. Apparently there is an anti-ai zealotry that makes real dialogue impossible.