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I love how AI went from being a cool fun thing to play around with, to something everyone now hates because capitalism can't help but ruin everything. (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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AI could be such a neat, useful thing. But nope, capitalists can't help themselves. Gotta use it to grift the internet with low quality content and steal from artists.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

It's also a pandora's box of burning up even more fossil fuels to fuel the deluge of cheap crap it creates. It's harrowing to think for like one neat ai thing, there's 500 million shitty ones and hectares of the amazon burnt down.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago

It's the next NFT scam. Capitalists are trying to create new frontiers to exploit. It's really amazing how useless this system is for society.

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

To be fair to AI, AI art and the like actually create some sort of products for investors even if they all suck and are grifts. NFTs are just a basic denial of reality lathed into existence by the uber-rich.

[-] JayTwo@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Entrusting environmental progress to free market means just meant that we have crypto NFTs and LLMs burning so much extra fossil fuels it's akin to a new first world country springing up out of nowhere, but also you can overpay for water in cans now.