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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
    66·
    1 day ago

    You are aware that AI, as it is currently used, is a mass plagiarism machine, yes? That threatens to put people in many different sectors out of work? And accelerates climate change to do so?

    Why haven’t we heard about AI doing literally anything good, like curing cancer, solving famous unsolved problems, reducing waste in logistics and distribution, etc?

    Each character in the OP comic is an arrogant chud trying to reassure themselves that their precious methods of control aren’t fragile.

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Re: solving famous unsolved problem

        “I guess it got lucky that it found one of the cases where experts tried and missed something,” Litt says. Genuinely new, groundbreaking ideas remain beyond the reach of current LLMs, instead leaving the machines to mine the literature for rare gems where humans missed a relatively simple approach.

    • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
      41·
      1 day ago

      You’re lumping in other uses of AI with LLMs (chatGPT etc), which is how @pfried@reddthat.com contradicted you.

      It’s specifically the LLMs, which were trained with AI but are more like context-specific hyperplausible random text generators, and yes, are mass plagiarism projects currently being used as an excuse to fire a bunch of creative folk in multiple industries.

      Other non-LLM AI uses tend to be more specifically problem-solving and narrowly useful.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Why is plagiarism bad? Aren’t you a bit of a bootlicker here for enforcing anti sharing constructs now? Nobody owns information, period.

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I’m sure you are just mouth-agape salivating at the thought of getting to watch all the Mickey Mouse you’ve ever wanted to for free, but even a socialist society would shame plagiarism.

        The idea that a society that has cast off its capitalistic chains to embrace freedom, compassion, and mutual aid would not be one that properly celebrates its people for their valuable hard work is… fucking insane.

      • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 day ago

        You think artists, writers, musicians etc should all get replaced by data centers? The bootlickers are the ones groveling at the oligarchs’ feet

    • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      22·
      1 day ago

      So are photocopiers.

      You’re really not getting it. You are saying the comparison of the printing press, the photocopier and then the scanner are equal to slavery and child labour.

      Somethings pretty fucked up in your head if you’re making that correlation.

      Also, ML has done a lot of good things too, even LLMs have their function and benefit, be it at a cost that may not be worth paying with our current energy generation and cooling solutions. You just don’t want to see it, you are deliberately looking away in your blind hatred for the system. Which I get, fuck the system and it’s owners. But God damn, comparing it to the torture that is slavery?

      LLMs are a tool, they have no inherent morality to them (I’m not talking about companies stealing shit to train their LLMs, you can do it without theft).

      Slavery is not a technology or a tool, besides a “tool of capitalism” or whatever the fuck you want to call it, seeing as it’s been around since we learned to lift a rock to another human. Humanities evil behaviour is not a technology.

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Somethings pretty fucked up in your head if you’re making that correlation.

        You don’t understand the comparison. Genuinely, I don’t think you are smart enough to even talk to about this.

        LLMs are a tool, they have no inherent morality to them

        All tools have morality.

        A slave is a tool.

        I don’t mean in the capitalist sense, I mean, literally, in the leveraging them to build a pyramid sense.

        Treating people like tools is why it is immoral.