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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 05:01:43 JST Nowhere Girl

   The big threat of "AI" isn't it taking over the world, it's it wasting enormous amounts of water and electricity to make a handful of people rich because they cashed out before the suckers.

   You know, like crypto.

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     Jo Jitsu (joblakely@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 05:28:03 JST Jo Jitsu

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     @foolishowl @gwynnion
     I suspect it is a combination of wasting/hoarding fossil fuels and water, to up pricing and like Crypto, a vehicle for increasing fossil fuel demand, derailing investment from sustainable systems to things that increase immediate demand, (and enmeshed everywhere all at once) and AI and data hoarding is imo, primarily for military and oligarch & other surveillance and control through digital manipulation.

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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 05:28:05 JST FoolishOwl

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     @gwynnion In several respects, "AI" is considerably worse, since the biggest corporations in computer hardware and software development are going all in.

     There's a massive boom in datacenter construction in part because of it.

     I suspect part of what's going on is that computer manufacturers had been struggling in recent years with the over-saturation of the market, and AI is an excuse to drive up demand.

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     fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 (fromjason@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 05:28:13 JST fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻

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     @foolishowl @gwynnion companies see an opportunity to replace a lot of employees using custom GPTs. And honestly, it doesn't seem like wishful thinking. There's a clear path to replace customer service reps, data analysts and to reduce admin work across an org.

     Crypto was a grift with no real practical application. LLM using RAG techniques has real value, unfortunately.

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     Nagaram (nagaram@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 05:28:52 JST Nagaram

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     @gwynnion AI is going to do little more than kill the planet for the sake of making marketing emails easier to write and easier to ignore.

     Our doom is one absurdity after another.

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     Bernd (hopfgeist@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 05:29:11 JST Bernd

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     @gwynnion Please don't say "crypto" if you specifically mean cryptocurrencies. Crypto, as in cryptography, i. e. encrypting data and communications channels to protect it from spying and surveillance, is supremely useful to everyone.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 05:29:18 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     @gwynnion

     Erroneous bans on the big platforms is the kind of world being moderated by AI is another kind of hell

     https://youtu.be/npl1yC5PrY8

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     🍉 estoy desesperada grabando acá con jota 🍉 (mapachin@novo-atlantis.null.media)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 21:04:59 JST 🍉 estoy desesperada grabando acá con jota 🍉

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     @foolishowl @fromjason @gwynnion
     
     also we shouldn't be worrying if a machine can replace human labor or not, we should be able to celebrate that!
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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 21:05:00 JST FoolishOwl

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     • fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻

     @fromjason @gwynnion No, it doesn't. The idea that LLMs can replace actual labor is delusional. Autocomplete isn't comprehension no matter how up-to-date the database is.

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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 21:05:04 JST FoolishOwl

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     @gwynnion I'm working at a datacenter where they're doing hardware R&D for "AI". Most of the people I work with do *not* like AI, but they need jobs.

     In some respects this may be the best opportunity I've seen for labor organizing. I'm wondering how to combine the tasks. At this point, I figure, worst case, organized workers would limit the worst exploitative practices of the expansion.

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