A tool is only as good or bad as the one using it. Ai is no different.
If AI wasn’t being swung around by a bunch of dipshits and being overly inflated and left to grow at a reasonable pace instead of trying to hyper scale it faster then it reasonably should.
I doubt literally anyone would have a real issue with ai.
You don’t need massive data centers, you don’t need to steal the world’s knowledge, you don’t need to replace every human possiable with it.
But the ones wielding and pushing AI are doing that. And people blame the unthinking tool. Not the idiots using it.
And this said as someone who fucking hates AI as it currently is
Sure, but if practically all the visible applications of a tool are negative, the implement of harm and the harm itself are commingled.
I agree that machine learning tools have useful applications, but LLM tools only seem useful at solving problems we’ve already solved or could solve more responsibly with 1/100 the energy consumption, and those are the only ones anyone seems to have ever seen or heard of, and also the ones responsible for the drive to build these data centers that consume all our life-giving resources.
The LLM idea is not responsible for those decisions, but it does make them possible while doing nothing meaningful for anybody. It is not surprising to see people rail against something like that. It offers only downsides for them, their well-being, and their society.
I think it is very much both. I think that many people being clubbed and beaten by this AI stick know that someone’s swinging it.
A tool is only as good or bad as the one using it. Ai is no different.
If AI wasn’t being swung around by a bunch of dipshits and being overly inflated and left to grow at a reasonable pace instead of trying to hyper scale it faster then it reasonably should.
I doubt literally anyone would have a real issue with ai.
You don’t need massive data centers, you don’t need to steal the world’s knowledge, you don’t need to replace every human possiable with it.
But the ones wielding and pushing AI are doing that. And people blame the unthinking tool. Not the idiots using it.
And this said as someone who fucking hates AI as it currently is
Sure, but if practically all the visible applications of a tool are negative, the implement of harm and the harm itself are commingled.
I agree that machine learning tools have useful applications, but LLM tools only seem useful at solving problems we’ve already solved or could solve more responsibly with 1/100 the energy consumption, and those are the only ones anyone seems to have ever seen or heard of, and also the ones responsible for the drive to build these data centers that consume all our life-giving resources.
The LLM idea is not responsible for those decisions, but it does make them possible while doing nothing meaningful for anybody. It is not surprising to see people rail against something like that. It offers only downsides for them, their well-being, and their society.