• iarigby@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I will keep that perspective in mind, thank you. I am very held back by the amount of resistance and pushback by myself against ai developments, and it is very hard to warm up to something being shoved down by these huge malicious corporations and not be worried about how they will use it against us.

    It sounds like one of the most impressive things in recent history and something that would fill me with joy and excitement but we’re in such a hostile environment that I am missing out on all that. I haven’t even managed to get myself to warm up to at least trying one out.

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      6 months ago

      It’s really not that exciting. Quite the opposite. The rush for AI in everything is absolutely bonkers, since those LLMs are just stupid as fuck and not suited for any sort of productive performance they get hyped up to achieve.

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        6 months ago

        ah so you were only annoyed that people are against doing the stupid computations in the datacenter and there will be less efficient grid version?

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          6 months ago

          I’m annoyed that we’re going crazy because computers manage to spew out bullshit that vaguely sounds like the bullshit humans spew out, yet is somehow even less intelligent. At the same time, people think, this empty yapping is more accurate and totally a miracle, while all it really shows is that computers are good at patterns and language and information follow patterns - go figure.

          I’m annoyed that Silicon Valley tech evangelists get away with breaking every law they fucking want, once again in the creation of those tools.

          Yet, I’m neither worried about the ecological impact nor about the impact on the workforce. Yes, jobs will shift, but that was clear as day since I was a kid. I don’t even necessarily think “AI” will be the huge game changer it’s made up to be.

          When they run out of training data (which is fueled by slave labor, because of fucking course it is) or AIs start ingesting too many AI-generated texts, the models we have today just collapse, disintegrating into a blabbering mess.

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            6 months ago

            I think the same I just really grasp every opportunity to get convinced otherwise because it’s such a bummer