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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.

Andre Louis
@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com

@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.

Tom Ritchford
@TomSwirly@toot.community

@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).

Andre Louis
@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com

@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.