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[โ€“] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 120 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In my job I write a lot of bullshit sentences that I'd rather a machine write for me. But the solution is to make it so I don't have to write bullshit sentences, not to get a machine to write bullshit.

[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

But if you don't write more bullshit sentences, who's going to pay for AI to summarize by getting rid of your bullshit sentences?

[โ€“] ashok36@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

If your job is anything like mine, the entire reason for those blshit sentences is to fool a machine at Google into putting your website higher in their search results.

So now it's bullshit Ai writing stuff for another bullshit Ai to judge. Consideration for humans is non existent.

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[โ€“] casmael@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man never thought Iโ€™d miss crypto but here we are.

[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As bad as it is, this is still a step up from crypto.

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least the crypto bros were idioting among themselves and not invading every fucking angle of modern society.

[โ€“] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Not for lack of trying. They did push for cryptocurrency to be used as actual money (with some success - see El Salvador) and for NFTs to be used for managing ownership (of actual things you can use - not just JPEGs)

It's not that generative AI advocates are more pushy than crypto advocates - it's just that they are more successful. Because like it or not - generative AI does work and does provide value. The problem with it is the ethics of training it and the negative impacts it has on society - but let's not pretend it's a failed concept like cryptocurrency.

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[โ€“] casmael@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Strongly disagree as unlikely as it sounds, crypto was much less annoying

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[โ€“] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every time someone asked me if they should worry about AI i've always replied that they should only worry about humans, especially the rich ones.

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[โ€“] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd say "inb4 the AI cultists invade this thread" but it looks like I'm already too late

[โ€“] casmael@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where do they dig these people up

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[โ€“] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Scraper"

A scraper scrapes. A scrapper scraps.

I used to think AI was a helpful tool, but now I see it is scraping absolute garbage because people are absolute garbage, so now the AI output will be absolute garbage, just exponentially faster.

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[โ€“] r4venw@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I'm very conflicted about this. I'd reckon that the majority of us working on these AI and robotics systems do so to try to make the world a better place; so that maybe one day people won't have to slave away in warehouses all day and pee in bottles because they can't take the time to use the bathroom. Those good intentions always get corrupted by corporations and greed. So do we stop trying to push the envelope? Do we not try to make the world a better place for fear that it'll be corrupted? I really just don't know

[โ€“] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Regulations are supposed to help keep corruption and greed driven bad actors from running rampant and misusing new technology.

The problem isn't innovation. It's the extremely wealthy people throwing their money into lobbying against any regulations that would limit how they're allowed to utilize new technology like AI. Can't have things like ethics getting in the way of raking in all that money.

In the US this problem is pretty extreme because we have corporations funding our politicians via things like super PACs. It supposedly doesnt influence any politicians decisions, but we all know it must. People don't throw around that much money during election time for shits and giggles. Somebody is getting something out of it somewhere.

[โ€“] Cikos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

is it really corpo corruption? majority of ai art 'enthusiasts' do so in the guise of 'democratizing' art but they harrass artist by scraping their work and dming them that they will be out of jobs and will die poor.

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[โ€“] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It is so funny to see that AIBros are exactly like Creeptobros/NFTBros of their time. Saying that "you're gonna miss out", "you're luddites" and all that jazz. So what's next? They gonna tell me "have fun staying poor" too? Lmfao.

Just like the former, they are completely okay with stealing from others, cuz they are literally worthless without the data they have hoarded outta so many people.

They should keep going, so that more people will see them for what they truly are. :P

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[โ€“] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The future of search engines will be forums where we create topics stating our search criteria and real people post results.

[โ€“] big_slap@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
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