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Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected (theconversation.com)
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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think it may he more productive to get people to use alternative ai products that are foss and/or respect privacy.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You got downvoted because Lemmy users like knee jerk reactions and think that you can unmake a technology or idea. You can’t, Ai is here and it’s forever now. Best we can do is find ways to live with it and like you said, reward those who use it ethically. The Lemmy idea that Ai should be banned and not used is so unrealistic

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You seem to misunderstand the ire;

AI in its current state has existed for over a decade. Watson used ML algorithms to beat Jeopardy by answering natural language questions in 2011. But techbros have gotten ahold of it and decided that copyright rules don’t apply to them and now the cat is out of the bag?!? From the outside it looks like bootlicking for the same bullshit that told us we would be using blockchain to process mortgages in 10 years… 10 years ago. AI isn’t just here to stay it’s been here for 70 years.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

ML technology has existed for a while, but it's wild to claim that the technology pre-2020 is the same. A breakthrough happened.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.