Technology

They always want you to be excited about things that don't benefit you in any way.

What is UAS? drones? Yeah but iran I don't think can reach them, otherwise yeah

AI will replace workers. AI will replace people who make art and music, and write things.

This part made me think how I've commented recently that AI does the thing it was designed to do, but that the thing it was designed to do is generate something you could believe somebody wrote on the internet.

That doesn't mean the answer is correct, of course. It's often confidently wrong, just like real people online!

But when it comes to artistic expression, there is no clear right or wrong. Music, art, and the written word are some of the most human things we have, but you are absolutely right that they will be replaced. If a marketing director can pay Google a few dollars to generate a hundred concept drawings so they can do "I'll know it when I see it" design, that's a human artist job they won't budget for.

There's often a tacit acknowledgment to the poor quality of AI output, but that they do not care, the strategy is to flood the zone with so much garbage as to make it irrelevant. It's a grift-conomy mindset, the focus is on "velocity" and "productivity" to the detriment of all else.

I want to agree with you, but AI is just another psychopath in a world where we don't need any more psychopaths.

-is an AI researcher -immediately uses Nazi lingo after introducing themselves

you can't be more obvious than this about the ideology of AI💀

The problem is that it’s in the hands of psychotic technofascist greedy subhumans

gee maybe people like you shouldn't have put those tools into the shitbag's hands?

I remember a decade ago multiple movements to reign in AI before it became uncontrollable, and any chance of that is long fuckin gone. we're gonna barrel forward heedless of the danger, because fuck you that guy wants profits and doesn't care about humanity.

and people like you made the tools and gave it to 'em.

Right! If you don't count the mass surveillance boost, the autonomous killing machines they're trying to make, the environmental impact, the pillaging of our individual experiences, and the destruction of all our shared spaces online, AI is a pretty cool tool.

I was excited about the idea of purpose-built systems trained on specific datasets to be help find complex patterns to diagnose diseases or suggest potential molecules for specific purposes.

Then the LLM shit started and everyone started fantasizing about intelligent "AI" just because it was able to reproduce patterns of language that seem relevant to a given input. Some of those funding it kept chasing that dream and are convinced that, if they just throw more compute at the problem, they can evolve the renaissance AGI that can do anything. Then they can fire every worker and be bazillionaires with robot slaves and never have to work another day of their lives... and fuck everyone and everything else.

It's amazing what we can ruin when we let greed and selfishness drive our society.

The lack of regulation of AI is absolutely a serious problem, there are so many problems your comment isn't even funny.
Problems with people using it for health advice.
Problems with teens using it instead of friends.
Problems with AI giving absurdly incorrect advice to people in general, but also professionals like managers and CEO's.
Problems with data-centers that host these AI systems require enormous amounts of power. So much researchers have shown these data centers are drying up vast areas around the centers.

The techno-fascists are in all sorts of business, that's not special for AI. The problem is with AI the techno-fascists aren't regulated in any way.
Neither how their data centers impact the environment and the electric grid, or how AI has actual bad effects for their customers, because there is no regulation on the use or supply of AI services.

Indeed.

To cut off their data and revenue streams, stick to Open Source, locally run, models and chatbots.

It’s amazing how open source has benefitted the individual. The monopolization of compute is still a barrier we’ll have to crash through

It's always been that way, it's just that until now the general public could say "well at least they pay me."

So ironically this rise in anxiety is itself being driven by self-interest. People were fine with those people being in charge as long as they got a comfortable lifestyle out of it. A pattern seen throughout history.