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solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This has already been done by politicians and continues to this day

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And some scientists!

    “If I repeat it in enough papers it’ll become true” seems to be the mantra of people with hard to defend theories they claim are fact.

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• snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Did you write this with deepseek?

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI

  You should really watch this – AI is being used in real research, and not all of it is bad.

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  • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Luddites’ main concern was the systemic redirection of revenue from them, the laborers, to the owners of the factories. They did not simply hate technology for technology’s sake.

    The fact that you ignore this basic historical fact betrays an embarrassing ignorance.

    I personally don’t give a shit if some AI is used in research. I think that’s awesome. But AI also actively and materially deprives laborers of compensation for their work, both before and after the model training process. And I fucking hate that.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AI’s primary use case so far is to further concentrate wealth with the wealthy, and to replace employees. People who think AI is bad recognize that it is in the hands of the modern generation of robber barons, and serves their interests.

    Those who don’t recognize this are delusional.

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    • Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AI as a tool can absolutely be a good thing, just like almost any tool. A tool on its own is neither good nor bad, it’s just a tool that can be used. The usage is what makes it good or bad.

      Yes, most of what AI is used for now is bad, but it can absolutely be a good thing in the right use cases.

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AI’s primary use case so far is to further concentrate wealth with the wealthy,

      Under capitalism, everything further concentrates wealth with the wealthy because the wealthy are best able to capitalize on anything. Wealth gives you the means to better pursue further wealth.

      and to replace employees.

      So what you’re saying is that we need to dismantle every piece of automation and go back to manufacturing everything by hand with the most basic hand tools possible? Because that will maximize the number of people needed to be employed to produce, well, anything. Anything else is using technology to replace employees.

      Or is it just that now we’re talking about people working office jobs they thought were automation-proof getting partially automated that’s made automation a bad thing?

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the problem is that AI can generate a million bogus “research papers” for every single legit paper. and for the general public (ie science writers, bloggers, news reporters, etc.) they are indistinguishable from each other. so unless you have literally done the research on a particular hypothesis yourself (good luck with that, with all the funding cuts), then everything is suspect

    so the question of “are we better off with AI?” as of right now, is absolutely fucking not

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    • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Literally you are better off with AI - it’s produced some of the most groundbreaking work in decades. You didn’t watch the video, did you?

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