“Hes one of the good ones”

AI as a concept is great. It should 100% be used for scientific and medical research.

But modern AI is a tool of fascists that is destroying our environment and causing more harm than good to our society. Anyone who uses it unironically should be ashamed of themselves. It is absolutely killing people’s ability to think.

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For those confused by the pic, it’s the Iron Giant. Fantastic movie from the 90s, and incredibly sad and nostalgia inducing. Definitely worth a watch.

But yes that’s a clanker

One word sums up all that is wrong right now and it is greed.

AI has become synonymous with the worst of human nature hence it has become a loaded term.

Another way to look at this is it is not AI that is the problem we are or more specifically the people that will use AI to control us.

This technology is like the atomic bomb. We are fast racing towards a future were a few people will be able to dictate what everyone will be able to do. The person that controls AI and the computing power associated with it will control the world.This is intoxicating and it has drawn out the worst human beings who want to misuse this technology.

And it has already happened to some degree. Massive data centers, surveillance technology, and AI are being used to profile people and target them for death. In the future AI teachers will become the dominate form of teaching. AI will make our decision and we will be subject to a system without recourse or redressability.

Soon we will have a generation of people who only know what AI has told them. This is the kind of scenario that we have been warned against and the reason that those who dislike like propaganda and misinformation are so upset with where things are heading.

A fascinating tool with a lot of potential, but sadly is being used right now to feed a greed machine.

If you examine closely, you’ll see there is no AI, but Vin Diesel reading a script (written by humans).

Who?

I think that AI is fine for personal use but I also think that companies shouldn’t be able to use it for profit. If the AI can do something I can’t and I’m not using it for profit, I have no problem using it. I occasionally use AI to generate images for personal use and I also on rare occasions use AI Dungeon if I’m having trouble sleeping.

A bit of a gray area that I’ve been letting slide is when someone, who is working by themselves, wants to make a game but they lack the artistic talent and budget to hire a good artist to make art for their game. I understand that the use of AI is technically bad in this case but I understand why they would use it and, especially if the game is free, I’m willing to give the game a try, but I will dock points and bring it up when/if I review it.

Depends on the use case.

• AI that parses manuals, documentation and dumbs it down for me? Yes please.
• AI that generates images? Eh, kinda undecided. I have seen really impressive AI videos, which I couldn’t tell from real videography.
• AI as a personal assistant? No, too much energy wasted on minor issues that could have been solved more efficiently. E.g: I have X at home, what could I make for dinner?
• AI (not LLMs) in medical/scientific fields. Very intruiging. Yes. good shit.
• AI in childrens toys. Eww. Burn it! Fecken burn it!!!

I think it can be a great tool, but it is overvalued atm, and there are AI images anywhere which is really frustrating. When I go to pinterest, I want to see human input. When I check my LinkedIn everyone and their cat is using AI graphics - I get it, it’s quick and easy, but such a waste of energy.

If we want to keep using AI, we need to reduce the quantity in which we use it and it’s resource consumption.

wait, that caption on the iron giant is unironically really funny.

AI is riding the surface of a monster bubble and anyone gleefully waiting for the pop has no idea what that’s going to do the US economy, and then everyone elses.

All but 1% of US economic growth last year was AI development and speculation. Combine that with the US passing, for the first time, 200%+ on the Buffett Index and we are screwed.

For reference, the Buffett Index is total stock market valuation vs. GDP. There is better than twice the dollars in the stock market than we produce in a year. The index was around 130% in 1929 and 2008.

It’s hot garbage and people who use it to create images/music are the polar opposite of artists.

From a practical point, useful in starting a base on projects, but sucks on further progress. I’ve used it in coding and 3d motion, and in both my experience it was like that.

From an environmental point, it’s an overengineered mess. Local models are satisfactory for most use cases, and we don’t really need huge computing clusters dedicated for AI.

I strongly dislike how LLMs are inserted everywhere.

But LLMs are just one kind of AI and I’m not going to stop using the kinds that actually are useful and appropriate.

Wow, you don’t know who that is but you’d ask if we’d call him a clanker?

idk who that character is, but i don’t like AI, it is polluting the environment and polluting the internet, all while disrespecting the work of artists (visual artists, musicians, voice actors, writers, photographers, etc)

opt-out is not consent