another day another long conversation with someone who thinks A/I is justified by its ubiquity. that it is "unavoidable." extremely boring and exhausting to think that a gaggle of CEOs can decide to put an icon on everything and suddenly it's an inalterable plan of god - ThreadSky

calebzane.bsky.social • 4 days ago

another day another long conversation with someone who thinks A/I is justified by its ubiquity. that it is "unavoidable." extremely boring and exhausting to think that a gaggle of CEOs can decide to put an icon on everything and suddenly it's an inalterable plan of god

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impcus.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think this comes out of a generation now of the big new technology actually becoming ubiquitous. Computers in general then the internet, basically. Then there's social media which is less of a new technology but a new, socially consuming application of it.

impcus.bsky.social•4 days ago

I sometimes feel like it's inevitable that it will be shoehorned into my life against my will, not because it is effective (either cost wise or by virtue of its proposed uses), but because capitalists who make these decisions for me make it so. I'm hoping it all falls in on itself, but idk

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

it helps me to remember that language is technology, so hatred is a technology, xenophobia is a technology. It shapes society and leverages convenience. If we believe we can change that stuff with aggregate work and social pressure we can do it with everything. and i do believe that!

impcus.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'd need to think on that perspective. It's an interesting way to think about language that I havent heard before, but maybe there's something there

vonaether.bsky.social•4 days ago

NFTs, Crypto, and the metaverse were also "unavoidable" until the bottom dropped out from under them

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

we love to believe the thing we want to do is unavoidable bc then it's not our fault!!! how convenient!!!!!

toddlambert.com•4 days ago

We'll all look back on this time and laugh.

gymbearfitness.bsky.social•4 days ago

I was just at a fitness workshop and the instructor was like “don’t think you’re better than AI. Everyone is using it.” And I began to immediately check out on a lot of what he had to say. “If you need to learn something quick it’s a great resource,” he said. And I just really stopped listening.

doommustard.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wikipedia is better for that, more reliably correct, isn't harming the environment, and isn't going to disappear overnight after the government realizes its a waste of money.

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

incredible resource for learning almost correct information for sure

gymbearfitness.bsky.social•4 days ago

I have learned to keep scrolling on google searches now that the AI version is on top. I’ve tested it out using slight variations to the same question to get VERY different results.

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

always so bizarre when people are like "there's no avoiding it" and i'm like "ok...i'm not using it ever?" and they're like "i bet you have a car and that hurts the environment!" like ok...yeah...and highways were pretty much all built before i was born. this one's happening in front of me

mattcaulder.com•4 days ago

Yeah how dare you exist in society

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

I know there's so little we have actual control over in this life but can we at least pretend for a little bit we care about how the world is being built while we're here? you can write your own emails mostly i bet

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

i don't think it's bad to be curious about new tech and i don't think everyone has to have a completely hardline stance about it like i do but also: with this particular technology the bad is really bad and the good is often actually bad! it's an easy one!!enrich your soul with this one weird trick

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

this is stupid but if it helps anyone else: i often think that if i build up the willpower to do something im proud of, there are probably at least 100 people in the world who are similar enough to my circumstances that they're doing it, too. if i talk about it maybe i convince 10 more.

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

in this way when i start to feel despair at my small potential impact i check in with my imaginary team of 100 and think: wow! if we're all doing this that's a much bigger deal! and each of the 10 people i convinced might also have similar mirrors somewhere! who knows. it helps me

emo-sludge.com•4 days ago

Also you need a car to get from one place to another in a lot of cases. There isn’t a single use case for AI in which it would be necessary for any reason.

el-intrepido.bsky.social•4 days ago

Artificial Intelligence is only “unavoidable” to those who lack natural intelligence

So, 90% of AMERICA

bnej80.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sure is unavoidable just like getting a 3D tv was unavoidable...

It's only ubiquitous because they've spent so much money they need to justify it. Consumers (as in paying customers not fans) don't want it and companies don't know what to do with it.

ironraptorstudios.art•4 days ago

It also has a bad case of being addictive as many are using these as a way to foster "homonculus relationships" and makes people prime for manipulation, or when the app updates, the relationship gets broken and "reset"

calebzane.bsky.social•4 days ago

this is one of those problems that's so many steps deep it is like. we should have so many guard rails before this one lol

ironraptorstudios.art•4 days ago

Eeeeyup but the problem is that government is completely oblivious to this and is more reactive than proactive.

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