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Dude, wtf are you talking about?

When people complain about “AI” they aren’t talking about aerodynamics simulators, they’re talking about LLMs built on stolen content for the express purpose of stealing jobs and recommendation algorithms designed to push people into right-wing rabbit-holes. Those are entirely a zero-sum game where corporate gains can only be achieved by consumer losses.

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Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Because people are largely ignorant and latch onto buzzwords that the media repeats endlessly without understanding what’s going on behind the scenes.

Fascist Recommendation engines existed long before any of this LLM business.

Stopping technological progress because bad people might do bad things with it, is attacking the problem the wrong way. Stop the bad people, not the technology. Replacing jobs/reducing the burden on people to labor isn’t a bad thing if we can prevent all the riches going to a few wealthy owners.

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- knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Because people are largely ignorant and latch onto buzzwords that the media repeats endlessly without understanding what’s going on behind the scenes.
  
  I’m not “people”, I’m a sysadmin for a Fortune 500 company that has to put up with my bosses trying to shoehorn LLMs into everything.
  
  Do not presume to talk down to me on this topic, I’ve been complaining about so-called “AI” chatbots since Eliza.
  
  Stopping technological progress because bad people might do bad things with it, is attacking the problem the wrong way.
  
  LLMs aren’t “progress”, they’re multidimensional maps of human language use. Interesting from an academic perspective, but not useful for any real work.
  
  Stop the bad people, not the technology.
  
  You sound like a communist.
  
  Replacing jobs/reducing the burden on people to labor isn’t a bad thing if we can prevent all the riches going to a few wealthy owners.
  
  So you are a communist, then?
  
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  - Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If AI can push us to be post scarcity, capitalism stops making sense.
    
    I’m not a communist in terms of present day reality. Not that the first thing you tried to label as communism was even remotely related to it. It sounds like you just slap that label on things as a way to dismiss them in your mind.
    
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    knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    If AI can push us to be post scarcity, capitalism stops making sense.
    
    Why would “AI” businesses want that? Without scarcity, they wouldn’t be able to exploit unmet needs for profit.
    
    The idea that capitalist enterprises would destroy their own shareholder value by rendering themselves obsolete is a delusion of the highest order.
    
    I’m not a communist in terms of present day reality.
    
    Nah, you just imagine that businesses will gladly share the profits of their “labor saving” inventions rather than jealously keeping as much of it for themselves as possible. If you think you aren’t a commie then you’re just fooling yourself.
    
    Not that the first thing you tried to label as communism was even remotely related to it. It sounds like you just slap that label on things as a way to dismiss them in your mind.
    
    Says the guy who wants companies to share the profits they normally take for their shareholders, lol.
    
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