@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social
"Kneejerk" implies thoughtlessness. It costs little to treat a stranger on the Internet with respect.
Also, posting anything critical about LLMs generally gets you a deluge of personal insults, implying that the reason you don't like LLMs is some personal failing of your own.
Given that all the people behind AIs are promising to destroy all jobs, and fear that it will destroy all humans, it hardly seems unreasonable to worry...
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/openais-ceo-says-hes-scared-of-gpt-5
@TomSwirly@toot.community @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social So say that then. Don't Piers Morgan the situation and storm off like an errant toddler.
I went on to post one further response explaining further, but everyone's hung up on my one use of a particular word. It's a little bit sad.
My take is deeper than that one word. #JustSayin.
@TomSwirly@toot.community @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social Or, you know, be a little adult about the thing and say
'I have an issue with your use of <word> because xyz.'
Having the last word and storming off is not an adult debate in any way, shape or form.
In real life if you're around a table and that happens, are you going to abandon your food and leave your part of the bill unpaid? I sure hope not.
@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social
In the real world, you don't say something like "I wish people wouldn't post AI content" and then have all these strangers suddenly appear.
My criteria for blocking are high - generally, the person either has to say something that would start a fight in a bar, or tell gross lies ("COVID is a hoax, the climate crisis is a hoax", etc) in an aggressive fashion.
As a cryptocurrency and AI skeptic, I've gotten an awful lot of rudeness.
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@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social (And I have worked professionally as a programmer in both areas, it's not like I'm ignorant.)
In both cases, crypto and AI, I feel that both the technology is flawed, and the consequent costs to almost everyone but 0.1% richest humans are incredibly high and do not outweigh the value.
Given that we needed to decrease our CO2 90% by now, and instead it continues to increase exponentially, both technologies feel like ecological suicide, too.
@TomSwirly@toot.community @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social My personal bias says that AI has helped me more than crypto ever has. Again, personal bias speaking though and I can freely admit that.
@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social
AI image describers, particularly for helping differently abled people, are not what people are against.
It's the LLMs. Those are the ones stealing our work; those are where nearly all the computational power goes; those are what is supposed to take our jobs; with the hallucinations (theirs), and the psychosis (ours).
@TomSwirly@toot.community @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social It still uses LLM in the background, so it gets included, and when you try to explain that to some people, they still say 'well don't use it, it's LLM. All LLM is bad.'
Did not include you in previous statement for clarification.
Tom Ritchford
Andre Louis