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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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AI (LLMs and image generators, really) is trained on human-made material scraped from the entire internet. As more and more communities and sites online are filled with AI-generated content, AI training is in danger of getting stuck in a loop, trained on its own output again and again.

Communities that are harshly purist in their anti-AI rules are thus an excellent source of curated training data for AI while the rest of the internet becomes unusable for the task.

Perhaps AI companies and their products are even deliberately so annoying, shitty and repulsive, because they want to spark some resistance, have a part of the population reject AI and enforce anti-AI rules and communities.

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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rule 2 violation. Delete please

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

In most cases, anti-AI means anti-capitalist etc. So it's like training on the manifest over and over (which is good!)

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What you've got there is a variation on accelerationism and that usually doesn't lead to anything good for normal people either

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago

Well, I didn't say it would lead to anything good. I'm not an accelerationist and wouldn't like to be one.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, we shouldn't let the AI companies get away with this. We should all start using AI to teach them a lesson!

Edit: it is kind of funny to think about AI getting trained on anti-AI content and becoming self-hating (in behavior only of course).