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AI crap - Why ML will make the world worse, not better
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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Extra spicy take: The Luddites were right. They were really always about opposing unethical use of technology, people who use their name as an insult were always all about "progress over people", and you should never feel bad for being called a Luddite.
Extra spicy, hut the kind of spicy you get on your anus after shitting out a too-hot meal
There are definitely people who are harmed by FUD like this. For example the current writers strike, which has 11,000 people putting down tools... indefinitely shutting down global movie productions that employ millions of people and leaving them unemployed for who knows how long.
I don't have anything against you or your colleagues. You've got every right to strike if that's what you want to do.
But there are millions of people being harmed by the strike. That's a simple fact.
Journalists/etc need to do their job and provide good balanced information on critical issues like this one. FUD like Drew Devalt posted inflames the debate and makes it nearly impossible for reasonable people to figure out what to do about Large Language Models... because like it or not, they exist, and they're not going away.
PS: while I'm not a film writer, I am paid to spend my day typing creative works and my industry is also facing upheaval. I also have friends who work in the film industry, so I'm very aware and sympathetic to the issues.
Simple example: A lot of artists would like that their images aren't used for AI training and would like to have legislation to prevent that. Problem with that is that such legislation would grand a monopoly on AI to the Google's, Facebook's and Adobe's of this world, as they are already sitting on mountains of data and have ToS that allows them to use it for training. Any Open Source project that doesn't have the data and would need to web scraping would be illegal.
That's the issue. A lot of criticism on AI is extremely short sighted and ignorant, often not even understanding the very basics how it all works.
Another more fundamental problem: What are you going to do? AI is just a collection of algorithms and math. Do you want to outlaw math? Force humans to use less efficient tools? Technological progress is not something you can easily control, especially not in advance when you don't even know what changes it will bring.
We did and nothing ever came of it. Projects like https://freenet.org/ or https://freedombox.org/ have been around for a decade or two. But the masses want convinience.
You are spreading FUD right in this post: "poorly regurgitating our shit without our permission"
You wanna be taken serious? Stop repeating the nonsense as everybody else.
And as for "replace us at our jobs", that's not a problem, that's called progress. If you want UBI or something along the line, go fight for that, don't make stupid arguments against AI.
Well, maybe, still waiting for reading one that isn't. Since everybody just keeps repeating the same nonsense, including you right now.
The only sensible one I heard so far was from Hinton, which simply suggested putting about equal money into AI safety research as we do into AI research. Nothing wrong with that, though that will probably just show us more ways in which AI can go wrong and less on how to prevent it.
So you want it changed in such a way that it grands Google, Adobe and Co. exclusive ownership over powerful AI models and kills all Open Source efforts? Congratulations for proving my point.
And you wonder why nobody takes you people seriously...
Not everything anti-Ai is luddite, some is just poorly thought through or downright incorrect, this is absolutely a luddite take