It may look superficial, but when “genai” is in the hands of everyone it will not be the same, right? All I’m saying is be vary of your choice of words. History has a way of catching up with you. @torgo

you are right

theoretically

i point out that the dominant use of AI is malice by plutocracy

you suddenly get very emotional about that

which strikes me as quite absurd

why is it so emotional for you?

do you understand the difference between a theoretical observation and a reality as it currently exists?

if you do, it's very cut and dry. it's not emotional

people despise AI because of its current implementation

that's valid

why does that bother you so?

you insist that AI can do good, which i have already acknowledged

that's not the point

the dominant issue with AI is its plutocrat control

by me making this observation to you, you get upset

for my simple true observation, you experience an emotional point of departure?

that's ridiculous

and, i'm sorry (well, not really), it's kind of funny

you're not a serious person on this topic joachim

you tell me to a plastic "take care", i tell you stop being a fucking clown

Get real. You are generalising to bring home what you think is the point. Yet you’re talking about explosives and the theory of nuclear physics in terms of good or bad. That’s what it looks like from the outside, and it’s not looking good.

I’m sorry, but this is where I’m getting off. This is a polarising issue and it’s blinding a lot of people. Take care.

@torgo

joachim:

you're not stupid. you understand the bulk of AI is plutocrat controlled and malicious in intent

you can castigate me all you want. for the crime of what? understanding the real problem?

all that is revealed is that your naivete or willful dishonesty about the dominant problem with AI is profound

why would you do that? do you think people can't see what you're doing? that's embarrassing. do you not see what you're doing? that's far more embarrassing

That's a reagan thing across my 60 years. He gave speeches accusing the government of pretty much criminal inefficiency and framed it as misuse of tax dollars. People bought it and didn't mind when they were made less safe by cutting the workforce and deregulation. Conservatives, who by nature didn't trust any government other than the local one, latched onto the mantra that deregulation and less federal oversight improved the public sector since "capitalism always arrives at an efficient use of money" and #Trickledown was born.
Of course the reality is that Well Regulated Capitalism can be manipulated into actually helping people while the fucking wild wild West of Unregulated Capitalism only benefits the capitalist personally. Especially when you maximize the system for sociopathic behavior which brought us the Robber Barons, Musk, Gates and Bezos. Wealth doesn't trickle down, it accumulates. That's all.

AI is useful and it’s a tool like anything else. Yes, we’ve tried to abolish and stop people from using and even knowing about science and tools before. Remember what happened? We learned that it’s the ideas and values that make us what we are.

@torgo

I'd say also that fascism is baked into LLMs not by design or bad faith programming, rather by the basic nature of a neural network/LLM. It's designed to summarize, simplify and return generalizations based on weights. Semantic ablation is a feature not a bug and fascism is an intrinsically simplistic way to classify; us/them, good/bad, right/wrong it fits in perfectly with simplifying and summarizing.

of course but the bulk of AI out of the gate is plutocrat political and economic agendas

so the theoretical observation that any technology can be used for good or evil has no meaning

the realistic observation is that AI as it exists today is a plutocrat tool to our detriment

until that changes, AI is shit

ignoring the reality to allude to some theoretical possibility is not accurate

of course you can use AI for good. but AI as it is is VC funded and plutocrat controlled

so it pushes plutocrat political and economic agendas to our detriment

the issue is not that we don't recognize the positive potential of a technology. every technology *can* have a positive impact, that's braindead obvious and thus without merit as an observation

the problem is you don't acknowledge the bulk of AI is used for bigotry and fascism

until that changes, like crypto, AI is shit

AI and alternative reality from billionaires is really, extremely bad and needs to be rethought and regulated.
Regulations force bad people to do good for society.
Why else deregulate as they have? Bad people will always be bad until they're eliminated from doing harm.

Fascism, and having AI do everything for you being two things lazy thinkers tend toward.

Perhaps the most important consequence of this is that the people developing and owning big money scam AI garbage tend to be anti-truth, and thus tend to NOT be anti-fascist. And thus, tend to be fascist themselves.

Not that there are lots of billionaire techbros that aren't fascist garbage already.