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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 (startrek.website)
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is why people who are gung ho about AI policing need to slow their role.

If they got their way, what they don't realize is that it's actually what the big AI companies have wanted and been begging for all along.

They want AI to stay centralized and impossible to enter as a field.

This is why they want to lose copyright battles eventually such that only they will have the funds to actually afford to make usable AI things in the future (this of course is referring to the types of AI that require training material of that variety).

What that means is there will be no competitive open source self hostable options and we'd all be stuck sharing all our information through the servers of 3 USA companies or 2 Chinese companies while paying out the ass to do so.

What we actually want is sanity, where its the end product that is evaluated against copy right.

For a company selling AI services, you could argue that this is service itself maybe, but then what of an open source model? Is it delivering a service?

I think it should be as it is. If you make something that violates copyright, then you get challenged, not your tools.

[–] survirtual@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Under the guise of safety they shackle your heart and mind. Under the guise of protection they implant death that they control.

With a warm embrace and radiant light, they consume your soul.