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AI slop is excarbating climate change. Like. We're fucked even without AI, but it's like driving a car off a cliff and setting it on fire before you go over...
It's not helping and even if a few people thinks it looks cool, that fire is going to suck because and make what little time we have before the cliff even less pleasant.
But not all AI output is slop, that's the point.
It does use a huge amount of energy, often for little reward, but so does social media. Facebook uses a staggering amount of energy. For what? Opt-in propaganda and ads. TikTok uses a truly enormous amount. Again, for what? 30 second videos of dances and the stupidest people of earth sharing their "life-hacks".
The slop issue isn't AI, it's humans.
What is your argument here? That because Ticktock and the like use up huge amounts of energy for their slop that is fine for AI to do the same? Because I could just reply with:
"Social media isn't the issue, it's humans."
And what AI output isn't slop?
I'm saying trying to dismiss all AI usage with the energy usage argument is disingenuous if you don't have a similar issue with social media.
The truth is that you've read someone else saying it and latched onto to it.
As for "what AI output isn't slop?", come on - literally anything can be bad, generated by AI or not. I personally use AI for spotting bugs in code - it's good. I also use AI to generate complex XSLT and regexes - it's very good at that.
Is it 100% correct all of the time? Of course not, but it gets it right on the first try far more often than a person would, in a fraction of the time.
I built a tool that generates MCQs from a given text for revision - it's extremely useful.
I use it for translations when I want to read something a different language. Is it perfect, again no, but it's better than I am, and it allows me to understand the text.
Also, AI is in everything already - your camera app, the Google suite, even your car if you have TSR.
AI itself isn't the problem - it's the people who create slop that are.
But not all AI output is slop, that’s the ~~point.~~ lie
If you teach a turtle to use a skateboard it's going to think it's amazing and no one could ever need to go faster than that.
Because turtles are fucking slow.
Give a deer a skateboard, and it's not going to give a shit.
Some people are turtles, so AI seems useful and impressive.
Maybe someday AI will improve and a person of average intelligence will find AI impressive. But at this rate the human race won't last that long.
That's the main problem when AI comes up in discussion, there is a very wide gap between someone who thinks AI is useful, and someone who actually understands what it is, what it does, and what the true cost is.
So if you try to explain it with facts and logic, it has no chance of working.
Gross.
LGBT people: just living, don’t impact you by existing
AI: now the internet is chock full of complete and utter hallucinated bullshit, and anyone who wants to flood the zone with lies useful to their pet cause has access to a firehouse. Facebook is filled with pictures of aliens and fake versions of archeological artifacts (hell, there are slop pages that post fake Holocaust survivors)
YouTube is full of garbage “music” and top ten lists that spread horseshit about animals and historical events.
Amazon has crafting and foraging manuals that are entirely made up. Good luck foraging for mushrooms, if you’re lucky maybe it won’t just be the AI hallucinating!
Jobs are being lost because C-suite types will happily sacrifice quality and accuracy to save on salaries. Businesses that would have to pay an actual artist to work on their advertisements instead shrug and post soulless garbage.
Gen AI should not exist. The collective delusion around fancy markov chains and plagiarized pictures/videos is fucked.
Seriously someone here merely asked why people didn't like AI here and he had a dozen down votes before the first comment even came in. It's clearly just a trigger for some people.
No, it's not just a trigger. It's just really that bad.
Yes I will fucking freak out. The planet is on fucking fire, people can't afford basic groceries, species are dying - and some idiots insist in spending water, using energy and stealing people's works using some fascist tech-bro's doombot because AI is supposedly fun or convenient. I hate AI with a passion for all the reasons reasonable people keep explaining again, and again, and again: the environment, the copyright, the dark fascist agenda behind it. Soon enough I'll lose patience with stupid AI bros who are going 'but it's just harmless fun' and just screech into their ears at full volume in a last desperate attempt to wake up their shrinking GPTchat-fucked brains.
Because once the name went from machine learning algorithms to AI a bunch of mindless zombies started pretending that it was what is now being called AGI. So companies started it putting it in everything which believe it or not bothers people
