Seeing an increase in people saying "bluesky is in a bubble about the plagiarism machines that make shit up. Most people use them now" and buddy. That's bad. You get that that's bad, right?
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The thing about AI though is that it's not good or useful technology. Anything it could help at it's already been doing out of the spotlight for years. What they're selling it as now is just something that gives you wrong answers or makes horrible "art." Why would anyone want this?
I’ve talked to its biggest advocates and many view it as heralding some kind of future where everyone can use AI as a tool to do whatever they desire regardless of knowledge
Really not sure why we’d want a future where we punish experts and encourage everyone to rely entirely on AI’s knowledge
I don’t think we have a cultural or economic structure that can make AI ethical - there’s too much incentive to just steal and profit since there’s little repercussions.
If they made an AI based on consented works I’d be interested but I’m told that’d not be a large enough database.
I am also in that bubble!
There’s also the thing where they’re constitutionally unable to grasp that we’re not all Americans in America and don’t care only about American things but that’s the internet for ya.
The number of people who don't see why offloading human communication to an overeager linear regression function is staggering and alarming. They really are just having an app read stuff that was written for them by another app.
"Omg dude, we totally owned those snowflakes who support... *checks notes* effort and not stealing? We should totally repeat our made up example two dozen times, with more long words that don't make sense when put together, and pat ourselves on the back!"
I remember when I was in school and there was a lot of focus on citing sources and giving credit for inspiration to avoid plagiarism. The state of the human mind has become so damn dull.
I'm probably gonna get into trouble at some point, what with working in tech, but I refuse to hold back my emotions and negativity when it comes to AI. People blithely chatting about how great ChatGPT is and I'm like 🤬
Things are so upside down. I know many advertising copywriters and designers who use the plagiarism machines because they're overwhelmed with work. Everyone's grateful to the machines—but no one's thought to ask why these people are overwhelmed in the first place.
I've lost a lot of respect from some people doing the "you don't know how data centres work" and "what's the difference between people making anime acrylic standees and doing stuff on the computer"
Though the most offensive one is the "people used to say the same thing about photography"
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Bare minimum we need to make environmental impacts better and prevent students from using it.
Really not sure why we’d want a future where we punish experts and encourage everyone to rely entirely on AI’s knowledge
But even if it did, it's still not ethical given it is based in stolen work.
If they made an AI based on consented works I’d be interested but I’m told that’d not be a large enough database.
There’s also the thing where they’re constitutionally unable to grasp that we’re not all Americans in America and don’t care only about American things but that’s the internet for ya.
(And they're not even coming up with their own artisanal shit, instead it's always sloppy SaaS, aka shit-as-a-service... D:)
In my experience, actual places dedicated to the plagiarism gear buckets, are some of the most mind numbing echo chambers, it's maddening
Real artists spaces are like... "Hey, bro, we agree on plagiarism being bad? Sweet."
"Omg dude, we totally owned those snowflakes who support... *checks notes* effort and not stealing? We should totally repeat our made up example two dozen times, with more long words that don't make sense when put together, and pat ourselves on the back!"
They are 10 billion percent the same, just with extra code & nodes
Though the most offensive one is the "people used to say the same thing about photography"
Annoying