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AI doesn't exist. This is like asking an atheist why they hate god.
If you're talking about LLMs and the like, they're unpopular on Lemmy because tech people are over represented here and tech people understand how these technologies work and why all the hype isn't just false, but malicious.
You mean a bunch of advertising and media companies that control and gatekeep the news are hyping something that's making them trillions of dollars? That seems... so unbelievable!
if ai doesn't exist then who is playing against me when i set the other civilizations to ai in rise of nations
Oh, that's me. Microsoft gave me backdoor access to your computer so I can play against you.
using linux doesn't protect me when i still run microsoft games on it i guess. it's poetic in a way.
It's not only tech people who "hate" AI.
signed, half a tech person
Also not a tech person, but I am an artist. I used to consider going into digital art, but now I'm grateful I didn't and instead have honed ... I guess you can call it "manual" art? As a way to say things I make with my hands? Maybe "analog" or "traditional" art?
Point is, I haven't seen an AI create a pencil drawing or an acrylic painting. I get the feeling that as people tire of AI generated images, they may find renewed interest in these distinctly human-made art forms. I suppose we'll have to wait and see. For now, AI may try to steal forms and ideas, but picking up a pencil or a paintbrush and creating something on a canvas are still out of its reach (thank goodness.)
Today my boss asked me why Gemini suggested made up columns when he was trying to query our database. I just told him it also makes up fake tables.
This shit is half baked and really never should have been foisted on the public.
This shit has cost the investors untold money, and it was promised to revolutionize the world, so by golly it will, by force if it must.
Ai
I don't hate it, just how it's being used.
Then again, proper use of AI, if even achievable would most likely result in disaster in some way.
The way "AI" is marketed today isn't real AI, it's just a lazy source copy-pasting bot made for our convenience.
Sounds like something someone pretending to be white would say.
Lol. For me I just get impatient with AI. Most of the time the things I tried to use it for, it either couldn't do, did poorly or did wrong. It was simply easier for me to do the shit myself instead of burning the planet by doing 50 prompts to get one useful result.
I tried it, learned about the environmental costs and then I stopped using it. The only thing its good for is for super basic bitch translations like that one time I didn't know what a particular mathematical formular was like in English and I couldn't find an answer after searching manually for awhile.
That's the only time AI was helpful to me.
And honestly, I just don't trust that is can help me with what I need it for 99% of the time because it just makes shit up constantly. I can't justify using this tool when the only useful result I ever gave me was the correct way to say a mathematical formulae in English. That is just too fucking weak. I am much better at looking for answers myself, writing and drawing things than any AI will ever be because I know what the fuck I want and I can make it myself while the AI has no idea what it's doing and only looks good to people who has zero reading comprehension nor visual literacy.
Like, I think AI music can be pretty good but I'm also a musical retard and I have no idea how to listen to music like a real musician, so to me it sounds good, but to someone who knows what they are doing, I'm sure AI music sounds like ass.
That's me with AI writing and artwork.
It's a masterclass in externalities: local communities face the consequences of the resource consumption by the data centers.
Job loss: were all told the "knowledge market" is where you deserve a good salary. AI threatens a lot of that work. Blue collar factory work will go as soon as AI can be properly integrated with nimble robotics that aren't quite there yet. With how disgusting our society is (in the US) there will be no consideration for the people who can no longer find work.
Wealth built on theft and gambling: people like Altman become fabulously wealthy with a system that makes 0 profit and has been built off of the stolen works of millions of people.
Capacity to manipulate: we've had enough trouble with bad faith actors on the Internet with real people. Now we're going to have an endless army of "intelligent" actors that will be weaponized against populations worldwide to secure the position of the ultra wealthy over all of our governments.
I didn't before much, but now I REALLY don't have a positive outlook on our future because of this...
I think the job loss part is a capitalism problem, not just an AI problem.
If we automate work, the people should get the benefits of the automation, they shouldn't have to be worried that they won't have a job.
Yet AI in the LLMs sucks dick, costs us way too much in global warming, and provides very little concrete value.
We need a revolution yesterday.
Huh… so it’s getting its advice scrape from Reddit. Now it makes sense where it’s getting the idea of telling teens to die by suicide. That place is a shithole where intelligence goes to die.
Have you seen the RAM prices lately?
.. And NVMe SSDs, and large HDDs.
I bought a Crucial P310 MVMe 2TB card barely three weeks ago for the already-inflated price of $132.58 (not on sale).
The exact same card from the exact same retailer is now $225.13.
70% increase in 21 days.
That's the average amount of inflation we'd have in eighteen years.
Because it's everywhere and I'm tired of people trying to make me try it.
The Slop Sketch (with apologies to Monty Python)
Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings with horned helmets on. A man and his wife enter.
Man (Eric Idle): You sit here, dear.
Wife (Graham Chapman in drag): All right.
Man (to Waitress): Morning!
Waitress (Terry Jones, in drag as a bit of a rat-bag): Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and slop; egg bacon and slop; egg bacon sausage and slop; slop bacon sausage and slop; slop egg slop slop bacon and slop; slop sausage slop slop bacon slop tomato and slop;
Vikings (starting to chant): Slop slop slop slop...
Waitress: ...slop slop slop egg and slop; slop slop slop slop slop slop baked beans slop slop slop...
Vikings (singing): Lovely slop! Lovely slop!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and slop.
Wife: Have you got anything without slop?
Waitress: Well, there's slop egg sausage and slop, that's not got much slop in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY slop!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon slop and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got slop in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much slop in it as slop egg sausage and slop, has it?
Vikings: Slop slop slop slop (crescendo through next few lines)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon slop and sausage without the slop then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean ‘Urgghh'? I don't like slop!
Vikings: Lovely slop! Wonderful slop!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely slop! Wonderful slop!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon slop and sausage without the slop.
Wife (shrieks): I don't like slop!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your slop. I love it. I'm having slop slop slop slop slop slop slop baked beans slop slop slop and slop!
Vikings (singing): Slop slop slop slop. Lovely slop! Wonderful slop!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her slop instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean slop slop slop slop slop slop... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: (singing elaborately) Slop slop slop slop. Lovely slop! Wonderful slop! Slop slo-o-o-o-o-op slop slo-o-o-o-o-op slop. Lovely slop! Lovely slop! Lovely slop! Lovely slop! Lovely slop! Slop, slop, slop, SLOOOOOOOOOOOP!
Why is being confidently wrong considered an exclusive or primary trait of white males, and why would anyone attribute this behavior primarily to their gender or race?
Needlessly divisive identity politics that gets spread around a lot in the form of tweets/articles/memes because it's controversial.
We need some “everybody love everybody” and some Jesus-style politics, instead of all this identity politics whatnot.
