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  • octade@soc.octade.netO This user is from outside of this forum
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    #234
    @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
    "While I agree with the sentiment I am enjoying every second of it lol"
    I'm feeling quite aggravated by how this AI mind poison has spread.

    Bureaucrats ever want to feed everything (hence everyone) into their machine.

    I also enjoy seeing people give 'em hell.
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    • geoffl@mastodon.me.ukG geoffl@mastodon.me.uk

      @EUCommission

      I've got an AI bridge to sell. You interested?

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      #235
      @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
      "I've got an AI bridge to sell. You interested?"
      SHH! Don't give the tech bros any more ideas.
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      • oliver@metalized.netO oliver@metalized.net

        @EUCommission Hoping that this bubble will finally burst - this can‘t be serious here. Going all in for something ruining the world these days? Countdown to extinction but hey, at least we‘re in Europe! 🎉

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        "Hoping that this bubble will finally burst"
        I remember the dotcom and big data bubbles. This is worse. They are trying to force all computing into the cloud so that your computer will be a mere kiosk and all your data on their servers.

        @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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        • ki@chaos.socialK ki@chaos.social

          @joshix @fnrd @EUCommission
          my best bet is on it just being a euphemism for data centers

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          @ki @joshix
          Or maybe an AI factory is a room where a bunch of people fire thousands of prompts every day and see what sticks?

          Like throwing faeces at a ceiling ventilator and then see where on the wall it ends up? Over and over and over again.
          @fnrd @EUCommission

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          • minski@kinkycats.orgM minski@kinkycats.org

            @EUCommission 50 % error ratio, wasting energy and water, fake caring about human beings... Yeah,. I see you Europe, you really are AI.

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            #238

            @Minski
            Non-producible prompts and unreliable output. Hallucinations are a feature, not a bug.
            @EUCommission

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            • oli@social.tchncs.deO oli@social.tchncs.de

              @EUCommission
              Is our European AI supply chain clean or is it based on theft and extortion of humans and the environment like the others?

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              @oli
              AI is based on theft of creative works and intellectual property.
              @EUCommission

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              • 0xtero@ohai.social0 0xtero@ohai.social

                @n_dimension @cstross @EUCommission it’s only useful if you completely ignore the costs and harm associated with producing the models in the first place and even then the actual usecases are pretty rare and the measured productivity gains even rarer.

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                @cstross @EUCommission @0xtero

                The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
                There is bad faith on both sides of the argument

                The WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄

                Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
                Its a safety issue.

                Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
                There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.

                Copyright and artist exploitation?
                Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.

                So, yeah.
                Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
                #aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites

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                • julesjones@mendeddrum.orgJ julesjones@mendeddrum.org

                  @EUCommission Read. The. Room.

                  A *lot* of the people on Mastodon are creators who have had their intellectual property stolen to feed the generative AI models, with at least one of the billionaires involved openly admitting/bragging that his business model would not be profitable if they had to pay fair royalties for that intellectual property.

                  A lot of people on Mastodon are deeply concerned about the environmental damage, AI hallucinations, theft of personal/corporate data, and sundry other issues.

                  There are forms of analytical AI that are useful (e.g. analysis of medical images) and do not involve any of the above. You do not appear to be referring to such analytical models.

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                  @JulesJones
                  @EUCommission This 💯. There is an enormous ethics deficit in the Generative "AI" sphere. I would encourage anyone to read something beyond the PR so heavily pushed by the "AI" companies. The damage and control being wilfully inflicted upon the world is real.

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                  • n_dimension@infosec.exchangeN n_dimension@infosec.exchange

                    @cstross @EUCommission @0xtero

                    The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
                    There is bad faith on both sides of the argument

                    The WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄

                    Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
                    Its a safety issue.

                    Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
                    There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.

                    Copyright and artist exploitation?
                    Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.

                    So, yeah.
                    Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
                    #aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites

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                    #242

                    @n_dimension @cstross @EUCommission @0xtero I don't trust you wulfy - and I don't like the tone of your arguments, seems exactly like tech bros who talk down to others.

                    But anyways, if you distill the model, there's no need for a data center, so who cares.

                    Might just need one or two data centers for training purposes.

                    Regarding putting things into orbit - the costs would be silly at best unless you do all kinds of jugglery like ship the model with 100 other useful things

                    Last comment /ignore

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                    • reiddragon@fedi.catto.gardenR reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden
                      @EUCommission with all due respect: fuck off with that shit
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                      #243

                      @reiddragon @EUCommission AI is objectively useful and actually superpowers productivity if used properly, if we dont manage to make our own alternatives we'll end up falling behind the USA and China. We need an alternative that's not a dystopian

                      I am mostly against the usage of AI and tech in general in education where it's not really needed (ex. students with disabilities or for coding classes) and in art, but for productivity? That is awesome

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                      • brad@1040ste.netB This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @troed@sangberg.se @reiddragon @EUCommission Nah, fuck off with that shit. You too.

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                        • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                          Europe, the AI Continent.

                          One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:

                          ✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
                          ✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
                          ✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
                          ✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.

                          We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.

                          Here's how 👉 https://link.europa.eu/nj3VH9

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                          @EUCommission I see a lot of initiative to support open source out there in Europe.

                          I have a simple suggestion, whatever you do, make it open-source and make AI training and inference available to regular folks.

                          Don't build a single, centralized model.

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                          • tantramar@zeroes.caT tantramar@zeroes.ca

                            @troed @reiddragon @EUCommission Maybe tell that to those endlessly shoving AI down everyone’s throats, Troad.

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                            @tantramar @troed @reiddragon @EUCommission

                            The issue is not AI in itself since we've been using AI since the early 2010s without even knowing, the issue is shoving LLMs and AI Slop where it is not needed

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                            • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                              Europe, the AI Continent.

                              One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:

                              ✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
                              ✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
                              ✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
                              ✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.

                              We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.

                              Here's how 👉 https://link.europa.eu/nj3VH9

                              webidebi@mastodon.socialW This user is from outside of this forum
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                              #247

                              @EUCommission no thanks!

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                              • n_dimension@infosec.exchangeN n_dimension@infosec.exchange

                                @cstross @EUCommission @0xtero

                                The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
                                There is bad faith on both sides of the argument

                                The WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄

                                Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
                                Its a safety issue.

                                Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
                                There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.

                                Copyright and artist exploitation?
                                Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.

                                So, yeah.
                                Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
                                #aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites

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                                @n_dimension @cstross @EUCommission AI Datacenters in orbit removes the heat issue because space is cold, right? 😂 Oh man...

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                                • leorjorge@mastodon.socialL leorjorge@mastodon.social

                                  @EUCommission Reading the room is not the forté of whoever is doing the social media strategy of the EU commission

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                                  @LeoRJorge @EUCommission Or their politics

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                                  • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                                    Europe, the AI Continent.

                                    One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:

                                    ✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
                                    ✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
                                    ✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
                                    ✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.

                                    We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.

                                    Here's how 👉 https://link.europa.eu/nj3VH9

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                                    @EUCommission We have a lot more topic requiering funding more urgently than adding more AI slop.

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                                    • super_user_do@mastodon.unoS super_user_do@mastodon.uno

                                      @reiddragon @EUCommission AI is objectively useful and actually superpowers productivity if used properly, if we dont manage to make our own alternatives we'll end up falling behind the USA and China. We need an alternative that's not a dystopian

                                      I am mostly against the usage of AI and tech in general in education where it's not really needed (ex. students with disabilities or for coding classes) and in art, but for productivity? That is awesome

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                                      @super_user_do @EUCommission The only way "productivity" goes up is if you really don't care about the quality of the work, only about the quantity, because the quality of the output is dogshit. And fall behind the US with what, a recession? OpenAI is so deep in debt they'd need to become more profitable than Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon combined just to not go deeper in the red. Anthropic didn't publish any financial data but I expect them to be much the same. They're a money furnace, plain and simple, and once you have to pay for these models the full amount thag it takes to run them, they stop being so amazing for productivity brcause a human could do better work for cheaper.
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                                      • octade@soc.octade.netO octade@soc.octade.net
                                        "Hoping that this bubble will finally burst"
                                        I remember the dotcom and big data bubbles. This is worse. They are trying to force all computing into the cloud so that your computer will be a mere kiosk and all your data on their servers.

                                        @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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                                        @octade @EUCommission Fearing the worst here, too. Experienced the 2000s by myself and we all know what happened. Besides, every Crypto/Blockchain-Bros. some years ago is an AI-consultant now so what should probably go wrong? We're learning. NOT. 🤦‍♂️

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                                        • super_user_do@mastodon.unoS super_user_do@mastodon.uno

                                          @tantramar @troed @reiddragon @EUCommission

                                          The issue is not AI in itself since we've been using AI since the early 2010s without even knowing, the issue is shoving LLMs and AI Slop where it is not needed

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                                          @super_user_do @tantramar @troed @EUCommission and where have "we" been using? Oh right, Facebook and YouTube and other social media used it to keep you glued to your screen. And Facebook specifically aalso ran experiments to see if they could influence some users' moods or political leanings. Y'know, very ethical work right there.
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