I think the reason we’re all so pissed about AI all the time is that there’s legitimate uses but 99% of what we’re exposed to is replacing a form of existing technology called “try to make something. You are a human being, you can make things”
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It doesn't help that everyone who's an advocate for it is constantly participating in the World's Biggest Asshole contest. Ever since bitcoin was a thing, the sales pitch for each new tech shit "innovation" has been "you're a stupid fucking worthless asshole who deserves to die poor, fuck you"
There are plenty of data analysis uses for it that make sense. Most of what we see is "hey we're trying to do the human experience without you. We're going to make people obsolete so that we don't have to pay them."
There absolutely are legit uses, but boy are people determined to show us the illegitimate ones. Because the legit uses are mostly the ones you can't see. That invisible lift, like how you can drag your fingers in vaguely word-shaped patterns on your phone and it guesses what you mean.
For me it's that most of my exposure comes in the form of AI photos attempting political satire so juvenile and cringeworthy I feel like my entire mouth is made of lemon.
Tech companies have found a legal way to plagiarize other people's work and sell it as AI. AI does not do anything on its own, it searches the Internet for other people's work and alters that work just enough so that they can't get sued, then the tech industry can profit off plagiarism.
I just imagine a world where no one writes songs or animates movies or paints pictures and everything we get is just a McDonald’s version of what already exists as the world turns into a flaking gray husk
The seemingly evergreen reality where technology should be getting used to make boring and monotonous mechanical jobs obsolete and widen the space available to human beings for creative labour and yet...
The most important part of an ad is to connect. The more successful ones always had a real person and or animal as the story. In time, we are going to get tired of seen an image created in lab instead of a real thing. It'll look "fake".
Like I make little edits to Star Wars icons someone else made, for a private roleplaying game. It's always just throwing the toys together, and even then, there's STILL something there that the computer both does poorly, and does without thought.
It's even worse than that. As more AI crap is posted online, it'll be used to train other AI and we'll get copies of copies of copies. Each more bland and lifeless than the ones before.
Imagine the protein folding projects that are using AI to discover new drugs. It's depressing as hell that all this space is used up to teach high school students how to cheat in class using AI.
The correct use of AI is situations where getting the answer horribly horribly wrong doesn't really cause any problem. Like if I machine translate a video game walkthrough and it's wrong? Eh, oh well. Google Photos shows pics of my dog if I search "cat"? Whatever. I wouldn't let it drive a car.
It's actually nice that a computer can attempt to recognize objects in a photo! Being able to search my photos is cool! But its because getting it wrong doesn't matter a lot and I can even enjoy it because I know Google is consuming my photos and trying to drive cars with the same data
Also to the point about creating, I DO want to avoid wasting time searching through every photo I've taken just to find a specific photo of my dog. I'm not looking to avoid...being creative.
Like...I don't want to generate fake photos of dogs instead of take them. Taking the dog photos of my actual dog is the good part of life. Digging through files isn't.
You can tell that the megavirgins developing and promoting it know they need to show real practical social and business uses and applications, but that their real and fervent motivation is and always has been to create a girl that will talk to them.
I'm gonna let you in on a secret: capitalism makes every attempt feel like a cosmic crime. If it can't be done perfectly the first time and also generate profit there's no reason to do it at all. That's why video games are so popular, they simulate doing things without actually doing things.
tech bros apparently think they are the only ones who deserve Money For Services Rendered. they got so angry at the art peons for saying "actually I would like a living wage, in exchange for the pictures I make with my hands" that they created a machine they don't have to pay at all
Same story as for GMO tech, really. Lots of reasonable and helpful use cases. But what gets developed is just the stuff that allows super profits, and/or does not address the actual problems that need solving.
The vast majority of factory QC is done by machine vision systems and has been for around a decade now. There are incredibly useful AI tools outside of the new generative AI fad
Predictive algo’s for market prices or image generation for “cutaway” quick illustration purposes are one thing, but chat based AI is a fucking cesspool. It may comfort the lonely, but is moreso just a far inferior replacement for the Guinness World Records at this point. It’s just dumber Alexa.
It also seems like a liptsick on a pig situation. They spent all their R&D on AI for things I do not want and they are glamming it up an pushing it on us to try and change our minds and cover investments.
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like, yes you COULD use gmo crops to fight hunger and malnutrition, and yes if you DID then the anti's would just be reactionary assholes
but you used it to do intellectual property enforcement to staple food crops, didn't you.
https://youtu.be/UoquS5uXOKs?si=bgljVpeso4nzArjQ
Like I make little edits to Star Wars icons someone else made, for a private roleplaying game. It's always just throwing the toys together, and even then, there's STILL something there that the computer both does poorly, and does without thought.
Who will give them this money? Other... CEOs? Listen they'll work that out once nobody else has a job.