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Do techbros that complain on the Fediverse about people hating on AI realize it isn't just here that hates AI? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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Everyone pretty much hates it, its just here is one of the few places online where money and stupidity can't be waved around frantically to hide that.

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

The echo chamber part is what gets me. I've gotten downvoted and had people argue that I must be pro-ai because I disagreed on details of how AI works, the difference between AI and LLMs, or exactly how we address the issues it's causing.

I think most of our current generative AI isn't fit for purpose for most of what people are saying it can do.
I think it's unfortunate that generative AI has entirely coopeted the term AI, which is a much broader field.
I think labeling LLMs as plagiarism machines and trying to stop them under current copyright law is destined to failure because there isn't enough difference between what's clearly acceptable and what people are unhappy about. We need a new, deliberately thought out way of addressing "you can download my stuff and mush it about with a computer if that's what you need to perceive it as a human. If you're mushing it about to analyze and make a copy cat, then you can't have it". The function of copyright is to promote innovation, and while generative AI isn't violating our rules for copyright, it's clearly working contrary to the intent of our current system.