this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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Fuck AI

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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.

AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence.

I also want to factor in people who think that there's nothing anyone can do. I've come to realize that there might not be a way to attack OpenAI, MidJourney, or Stable Diffusion. These people, which I will call Doomers from an AIHWOS article, are perfectly welcome here. You can certainly come along and read the AI Hype Wall Of Shame, or the diminishing returns of Deep Learning. Maybe one can even become a Mod!

Boosters, or people who heavily use AI and see it as a source of good, ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE! I've seen Boosters dox, threaten, and harass artists over on Reddit and Twitter, and they constantly champion artists losing their jobs. They go against the very purpose of this community. If I hear a comment on here saying that AI is "making things good" or cheering on putting anyone out of a job, and the commenter does not retract their statement, said commenter will be permanently banned. FA&FO.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

AI bros are so level headed and fair. they're nothing like the bitcoin bros!

/s

I'm convinced that people who blindly support AI are the same incel scum that claims to be just a "nice guy".

some people just need to have their asses kicked.

[–] CriticalMedicine@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

I'm glad to be here. Fuck AI

[–] CriticalMedicine@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

Fuck AI. I'm still learning lemmy.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Original Desc: A place for all those who loathe machine-learning and its endorsement – and to document the knaves behind this dismal industry. Proud supporter of human artists. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.

[–] Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I do want to understand, I am no "booster" by any means and I think on the whole AI is being used in some abhorrent ways, but I don't think the technology is the problem I think the problem is it's use to steal art and by corporations to cut people out of the picture, and I do think there are some beneficial applications of AI and that it is not unilaterally negative or evil. Just being used in a lot of shitty evil ways right now. Does that mean I am unwelcome here? Genuinely asking.

[–] gadfly1999@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

I’ll say that while it is a problem that LLM are plagiarism machines at industrial scales, It’s also a problem that it would create the same carbon emissions as NYC produces in a month to make them plagiarize 3-5% better.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Eh, you're welcome here.

[–] Twipped@l.twipped.social 17 points 10 months ago

LOL, they think twitter artists make art for money. Dumbass! cries

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I literally gotten threatened to be doxxed (and physical harm) the other day in a thread I made that was negative about AI.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Welcome to the club.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fuck AI but imo community names are good to be little more productive. We will just circlejerk here hard lol which is not like bad in itself but hella boooring.

Gimme a good debate with the ai bros I can watch on sidelines as smarter than me make arguments. Just warn/ban em if they are disrespectful

But maybe that’s the purpose of whole rest of the tech comms…

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The types of places they're on are the mainstream sites (Reddit & Twitter), and I don't want to go there unless I have to. I honestly think a big part of the push for AI isn't popularity at all. Nobody really likes it that much. It's purely oligarchs who try to make their product look good to investors, and who see it as a way to replace human workers immensely easily. I'm unsure where the cryptocurrency-using techbros come from, tho. Maybe they're bot accounts held by very few people.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago

I don't understand the glee with taking job from people by stealing their data. Those people deserve better.

[–] convectionfusion@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

but it won’t completely upend society.

it is upending society. we're re-engineering our entire energy infrastructure around it. pft.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/america-s-biggest-power-grid-operator-has-an-ai-problem-too-many-data-centers/ar-AA1U5ux8

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I straight up would've replied with "kys" and the Low Tier God meme if someone sent that to me LMAO

[–] RetroHax@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Peak Post! :D
ALso yea i 100% agree! >:D
I personally really do not understand the reason as to why People are so Happy about GenAI like WTF?! >.>
The only Thing i see in LLMs is the use for Translations and Scientific Stuff for Language Helping SUpport and such Cases where it actually makes Sense as a Tool :P
But GenAI as a whole where it just shits out a bunch of NonSense and calls it "Good XYZ Thing" is just ugh -.-