Zoomers and gen x that drank the kool aid. What's worse is they are saying yes to high paying jobs to fuck us all in the ass.
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I used to feed AI anything I wrote that I wanted to sound professional to save me time and brain power. Not only do I have no need for that anymore considering I've just accepted that my CS degree was truly a waste of my life, but now I realize I'd encourage the building of data centers so now I'm fully radicalized to never use them
Dude your CS degree is not a waste. AI is just a tool. Anyone who thinks they can replace their staff with it are in for a rude awakening. I understand how much harder it is to get your foot in the door though. Its not permanent though. I remember when "no code" was going to take the jobs. The job just changes a bit.
As a member of GenX (1980)...
Yep, that sounds like my peers. Most of them believe the marketing or are at least convinced enough to indulge. The hold-outs are getting more infrequent.
Same. I noticed that I finally got banned from a few random instances I'd never visited before under my moderation history, and they were all by the same guy who claimed I was an "anti-AI troll" lmao
The most hilarious part to this is I feel so dispassionate about the subject, I can seldom remember what it was I might have commented, and was probably something like "yeah this looks like slop" hahaha
If you ignore or are blissfully unaware of the negatives -- and all the companies behind all the major product lines do their best to hide and minimize them -- then it's easy to find utility. Basically everyone I know IRL actively chooses to use AI for something. Both CRAP (Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures) and code generation are very common.
When I point out the ethical issues, I am generally dismissed entirely ("they'll fix that" or "my impact is small") or counter with something about quality ("it works now" and "it's getting better"), which I find is beside the point.
AI (LLMs) is/are a fantastic tool.
But that's what it is, a tool that can make some tasks easier.
It's not world-changing like some tech bros and CEOs think it is because they don't actually understand the technology.
It's also not the apocalypse or The Matrix or Skynet coming to end civilization. It's just a tool.
After the AI bubble bursts, AI will still be there, as a tool for humans to use.
I think it's possible that some of the people you see on Lemmy may have started using AI a little more in their lives and see it for what it is.
You know what's crazy is that everyone has begun rebranding things that existed before AI as AI.
The algorithm summary of a common question in Google results? Now it's AI.
Trello's automation tasks moving items marked as "Done" to archive? Now it's AI✨
It's idiotic lol
Marketing BS. The bad part is all the C-Suites falling for it.
LLMs are neat, and useful for some things - but as with practically everything in modern society, capitalism is ruining it.
It's also not the apocalypse [...] It's just a tool.
So, the problem with tools is that their existence still affects the systems they're a part of.
For instance, war between the US and Russia is much more dangerous now (yes, it used to be dangerous before as well) because now we have nuclear bombs. We did a whole cold war thing about it. Nuclear bombs change the world even when they're not being used.
Similarly, meth is just a tool. It is entirely possible to smoke meth, not become addicted, have a great time, vacuum your entire house I guess, come down, chill, and move on with the rest of your life. But, that's not what we would say meth's effect on society is, is it?
I am so happy that you are capable of using AI without becoming a psychopath. I am concerned about the psychopaths.
Google at some point also was a great tool. Wikipedia also joins the rankings. LLM chatbots are great but certainly not the primary source of information.
What annoys me is that people began to use them to not to do simple things like writing their own posts about their own things. They began to generate content instead of making it. It is obvious that anything what takes time to be produced, will most certainly be automated once tools are given. But this annoys the hell out of me.
Seeing posts, comments, content generated by LLM, I feel that I am being robbed of artistry, curiosity, interactions with real people. I can automate chats with my family, friends, colleagues, children. But that wont be me. That will be perfect grammar sentence generator, not me - real, tons of mistakes, typos, mostly renting about everything, passionate, bored, funny, witty, dull me.
It saddens me that LLMs are exedcuting (almost?) final blow to a society that is sustaining social media terminal damage.
Unfortunately we will always have problems explaining to people how to use the right tool for the right job.
The old "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" saying still applies.
Using LLMs to automate your social media is dumb as shit and I don't understand why people are doing that. It is actively destroying social media. Which may be the natural end-state of a social media platform. Isn't that why most of us are on Lemmy right now? Because of the state of Reddit and Xitter?
Also, generative AI making art and music and literature is dumb as shit too. Why would you make an AI that does the fun stuff that humans actually want to do? I can't wait to have AI finish playing BioShock for me...
To be fair, given the power consumption it requires, it definitely leans towards civilization ending.
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Can't tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.
They're both "annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality" and they are spreading propaganda they picked up elsewhere.
I think AI has positives to help people, that being said I think it's out of control currently. I hope the bubble burst soon and we can actually get to a reasonable balance.
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Current AI is unsuitable, but automation of some kind (maybe not AI) will be necessary for a nearly workless future. Life is kind of dumb as is, it's better if we spent time in the gym, or doing yoga, or learning something, instead of spending life in the pesticide factory, then dying after 3 years of retirement from a horrific disease.
We already had (pre-2020) all the automation we needed to work less than 20 hr/wk and produce all the necessarily calories, fresh water, and housing for everyone. But, instead we chose to turn a few people into decabillionaires and continue to bicker over the scrap like we weren't in a post-scarcity society.
LLMs, transformers, convolution layers, characteristic tensors, etc. all have some legitimately novel uses, but all the big "AI" product lines are unethically developed, irresponsibly deployed, and dishonestly marketed.
If you want an ethical chatbot, I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apertus_(LLM) .
I don't know of a ethical model that's good for images or code, yet, but I know people are working on them. The IBM Gemini models are getting close, but I don't know if IBM will ever get the training data completely "clean" / open / free.
I've been told that StarCoder is an ethically-trained free software model, but some of my research ( https://mot.isitopen.ai/model/StarCoder ) contradicts that assertion, and I've not looked into it deep enough to resolve that conflict myself. (IMO, we don't actually need automated code generation, we need to write less code in better languages with better tests and more reuse; but you may not agree.)
Humans are social animals, in the United States especially where people are severely separated- they’ll look for and find any kind of easy access towards social interactions: including but not limited to Chat bots. It’s a sad reality that they would dismiss the negative affects it has on our social brains, dismiss the environmental effects it has on our planet, dismiss the social warmings because they’re too involved with LLMS “AI”.
That’s right, it’s not even AI; it’s only large language models or some agentic systems. Way smaller ones existed in the past, think Dr. Sbaitso (1992) or A.L.I.C.E. (1995.) it’s actually not hard to make a chat bot, just have it echo what the user says with some key phrases. That’s the whole existence of chat bots and today’s current “ai” only they have a LOT more variables that were generated off of huge randomly generated data sets (both off of free open sources and stolen data) and that’s what causes it to hallucinate: it’s the randomness that humans don’t have the ability to change or update simply because it’s such a huge list of variables. It’s so massive people think it’s real intelligence! PEOPLE WERE FOOLED ON 1990’s CHART BOTS TOO! 😭 😂
Anywho we recommend the movies Desk Set, Space Odyssey, pi and even Alphaville. They’re related to the subject and they’re pretty good at pointing out the bruhs.
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I suppose it's due many people not seeing things as black or white, but as a variety of grays.
How dare they!
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