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It's almost like proprietary software is built to maximize shareholder profits above user friendliness
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You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters "AI".
"We've been using this reactor to power the AI, but the more we use it the weaker it becomes!"
It's one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.
Generative AI in different forms is more than just a poor quality tool. Image generators are being used to create fair pornography of real people. People are replacing actual mental health techniques with ChatGPT reaffirming every single one of their internal biases and making their problems worse. Employers are using metric shit tons of natural resources to generate "no you can't take the day off" emails, and people are generating AI summaries of AI generated presentations and saying they've learned something.
And if the human impact doesn't appeal to you, all the financial capital being poured into NVidia and OpenAI and all of this other rubbish could be solving real problems.
Can you name a single technology or human endeavour that doesn't have negative side effects or potential for abuse?
The rise of anti-AI sentiment isn't based on objective measurements of societal harms, it's a meme because it's new and popular and, like all memes, some people feed on the outrage-based reinforcement generated by social media interactions.
I'm not saying that there are no problems with AI. I'm saying that people are treating it as if it were a massive problem because their perception is warped by social media.
I believe there are significant downsides to AI because of my understanding, not because the internet has told me to. The flip side of this conversation is people who do not understand, or choose to downplay, the downsides and who inflate the benefits through ignorance or vested interest. Of course all change has to be balanced against both good and bad consequences but to me it reads as though you are discounting valid criticism of AI as groupthink, when just as much happens in the opposite direction.
You sure your understanding isn't even a little bit based on things the internet told you?
Like, did you get all your knowledge about AI from offline?
Because I highly doubt it. Especially since you are on Lemmy on a post about AI.
Sure, discourse I've read on social media has encouraged me to go and do further reading and educate myself. You got me?
I'm fuming!!
I like ai, but only when its doing something actually helpful, not making 'art'