John
The more I roll it around in my mouth, the more certain I am that the "AI" mania *perfectly* encapsulates neoliberalism in its entirety.
- doesn't work and never has
- steals everything around it
- produces nothing of value
- destroys all things with actual value
- lies
- creates the illusion of efficiency while vastly increasing both monetary and social costs
- is supported by militant zealots with tiny minds and hearts
- enriches a tiny group of individuals at the cost of destroying Earth
djsumdog
I don't like the random token generators either, but the machines can't lie. It's not just semantics. They can't "hallucinate" either, because they have no intent. Models are just massive collections of pieces of words and a floating point value to ever other piece of a word. The generators break apart your prompt, run it through a transformer with attention blocks, percepteron blocks, etc. and then randomly chose the next predicted token from the top few.
The biggest problem is not the machines themselves, but the trust people put in them and also not understanding the basics of how they work. People who ask "Grok is this true" or who say "Well ChatGPT said.." are fucking morons who can't do 3 minutes of searching to find the actual answer instead of the randomly generated one that is only right by pure accident.
That being said, AI generated art is great for memes and fun stuff. You can run it on your own video card locally too (and people should).
The coding models have actually gotten better. They're still not great and people really shouldn't use the generated code from Claude/Sonet/GPT without cleaning it up first .. but it is better than a year ago when a lot of it was buggy and horrible.
AI assisted art generation (drawing something with model assistant, or voice modification to your own dialog) could be massively helpful to independent film creators.
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John
On top of that:
- viciously punishes people who refuse to pretend they're eager to participate
- creates incredible suffering wherever it goes
- cannot exist without exploiting the global South
- is subsidized by governments at the expense of social programs
- makes up most of the "data" it presents to the public
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cassidyclown
Nudhul
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Johnny Peligro
Johnny Peligro
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