Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to “Ask an AI Chatbot (Z).” Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it from my context menu, but oh my fucking god, AI bros are so fucking desperate to adopt this tech en masse, I swear to god.
Let the fucking bubble burst, nobody fucking likes generative-AI and making it goddamn inescapable is not going to make us like it. Let it go the way of NFT and the metaverse like it goddamn deserves. If generative-AI was genuinely that fucking good, people would naturally adopt it like we did with computers. Companies did not have to work this hard to get people to adopt computers because their purpose and value was obvious.
And @mozilla, @firefox please for the love of god, stop adding AI features. I get you’re partially funded by Google, but grow a goddamn spine and listen to your users. People do not like these features and expect better from you. Firefox is supposed to be about privacy and generative-AI is NOT good for privacy (do I even need to mention Windows Recall?) You wanna be the alternative to Google so bad, yet you do the same scummy, disliked sh!t everyone hates Google for.
I would take issue with your implicit suggestion that humanity becoming slaves to AI would be fine if the machines doing it weren’t under the direct central control of their elite owners. The gradual replacement of human thinking with rapid low-cost mediocre pseudo-thought is a problem for more than just the worlds of media and art, no matter who’s nominally the owner of the process.
No, we’re not going to be slaves to a general AI, but it will grant unlimited power to whoever controls it.
There’s a large ecosystem of “open” models available to download and develop with. Sadly IMO this open movement is too small and too slow to assail the likes of openAI, but it’s something.
An open model available to everyone doesn’t concentrate power.
What I’m thinking of depends more on the training methods and data used. But I guess it’s too early to say much about what strong AI would be like, we’re not really close to it yet.
I mean some of it might turn out to be “profitable” in the narrow sense of earning financial returns for somebody, but that does not mean it will be a profitable endeavour for humanity in general.