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Do y'all hate chess engines?
If yes, cool.
If no, I think you hate tech companies more than you hate AI specifically.
The post is pretty clearly* about genAI, I think you're just choosing to ignore that part. There's plenty of really awesome machine learning technology that helps with disabilities, doesn't rip off artists and isn't environmentally deleterious.
The distinction between AI and GenAI is meaningless; they are buzzwords for the same underlying tech.
So is trying to bucket them based on copyright violation: there are very powerful, open dataset, more or less reproducible LLMs trained and runnable on a trivial amount of electricity you can run on your own PC right now.
Same with use cases. One can use embeddings models or tiny resnets to kill. People do, in fact, like with Palantir's generative free recognition models. At the other extreme, LLMs can be totally task focused and useless at anything else.
The distinction is corporate/enshittified vs not. Like Reddit vs Lemmy.
That first claim makes no sense and you make no argument to back it up. The distinction is actually quite meaningful; generative AI generates new samples from an existing distribution, be it text, audio, images, or anything else. Other forms of AI solve numerous problems in different ways, such as identifying patterns we can't or inventing novel and more optimal solutions.