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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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    Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Wow. Reading comprehension is not your strong suit. Nowhere did I say companies would do this willingly. Not did I say we were that close to this being relevant. Don’t get too distracted trying to find ways to not discuss the actual point of the conversation though.
    
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