Those are not valuable use cases. “Devouring text” and generating images is not something that benefits from automation. Nor is summarization of text. These do not add value to human life and they don’t improve productivity. They are a complete red herring.
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GenAI is a bad tool that does bad things in bad ways.
492·5 months ago“Persecution” — lol.
That looks very much like a false dichotomy to me. You left out:
- advertising (which does not require selling data, this is just an invasive additive)
- donation and volunteer based (Wikipedia does this quite successfully)
- funded from tax income (as are online government services, crown corporations etc.)
- companies that sell something thru the internet l, and website is an advertising or pm selling platform. This accounts for most sites, tbh, from brands to retailers, to marketplaces like Amazon, Etsy, and Craigslist.
These are just off the top of my head. But the point being is that your major premise of obviously false.
Most companies that are harvesting our data are also requiring or pushing for subscriptions now, so the dichotomy is also false in that respect.
Finally, it is clear that millions of people are quite happy to pay reasonable fees for valuable services, which is why so many fee based companies are doing fine.
12·7 months agoTell that to the hundreds of researchers who have their entire research programs and funding prospects thrown into the air, and/or outright cancelled.
Fucking bizarre take to lob at someone fleeing a country rapidly falling to fascism and ethnic cleansing.
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Yep, this basically is a government subsidy to the service industry, which then removes funds from essential government programs, like health and education.
Another step towards an illibertarian hellscape. :(
11·7 months agoThese kinds of prescriptive gimmicks are very exasperating, imo.
How legal is this kind of activity? Do we not have regulations against CPAC-like activity?
I’m not an expert in AI systems, but here is my current thinkging:
Insofar as ‘GenAI’ is defined as
I think this is genuinely bad tech. In my analysis, there are no good use cases for automating this kind of creative activity in the way that the current technology works. I do not mean that all machine assisted generation of content is bad, but just the current tech we are calling GenAI, which is of the nature of “stochastic parrots”.
I do not think every application of ML is trash. E.g., AI systems like AlphaFold are clearly valuable and important, and in general the application of deep learning to solve particular problems in limited domains is valuable
Also, if we first have a genuinely sapient AI, then it’s creation would be of a different kind, and I think it would not be inherently degenerative. But that is not the technology under discussion. Applications of symbolic AI to assist in exploring problem spaces, or ML to solve classification problems also seems genuinely useful.
But, indeed, all the current tech that falls under GenAI is genuinely bad, IMO.