The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems.

[xpomul@norden.social]

@tante @cwebber I’d state it needs intelligence to distinguish intelligence from experience, knowledge and pattern recognition. I don’t know what this says about Sam Altman

[freddy@social.security.plumbing]

@tante yes. And whoever believes the usage will remain cheap is just naive at this point.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@tante Yep... and it's been obvious for many, but sadly not nearly enough.

[secretasianman@types.pl]

@tante @wilbowma @cwebber god dammit this is so fucking bleak

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tante but who is going to buy it when everyone's broke?

[markhughes@mastodon.social]

@tante Only the shit they'll sell back to you will be worse because LLMs are inferior to their inputs...

...and nobody using it will know enough to see that.

[xgebi@hachyderm.io]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116209449941602124

@cwebber @tante yesterday @nixCraft was more on spot than I thought

Hachyderm.io

(hachyderm.io)

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@tante

Koch Network kept Uber & Lyfft afloat for a decade to thwart public transportation projects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html

Just a moment...

(inthesetimes.com)

An Unholy Alliance Against Public Transit

Uber and the Kochs aren't often mentioned in the same sentence. But the rideshare company has joined the far-right billionaire-funded operation on a libertarian crusade to destroy public transit.

(jacobin.com)

To thwart a fossil fuel phase out, Koch Network is again lending its financial support to something unsustainable, polluting, & undemocratic.

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

DeSmog (www.desmog.com)

Funders commit $1B toward developing AI tools for frontline workers

A coalition of philanthropic funders will spend $1 billion over 15 years to help develop artificial intelligence tools to help spur economic mobility.

AP News (apnews.com)

forbes.com

(www.forbes.com)

[tidalflats@mastodon.coffee]

@tante @frank

https://dn710709.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheFeelingOfPower/The%20Feeling%20of%20Power.pdf
- Isaac Asimov, 1958

[musiquenow@todon.eu]

@tante

#SamAltman, #AlexKarp, #PeterThiel #MarkZuckerberg, etc MUST BE STOPPED!!!

#Tech #BugRech #BillionairesSUCK ##TechBillionairesSUCK #Grift #Capitalism

[bjb@fosstodon.org]

@tante

Not just "AI". I can't believe people rush to subscribe to taps where techbros siphon our money.

You want to call people? There's a subscription for that. You want to listen to music/watch movies? There's a subscription for that. You want to have a door camera? There's a subscription for that. You want to make dinner? There's a subscription for that. You want to edit documents? There's a subscription for that. You want to learn a language? There's a subscription for that.

[awkapuma@mastodon.social]

@tante

Clarifications to billionaires:
Water and electricity are not services, they are HUMAN RIGHTS. Without those two things, people go back to middle age and/or die.

The so-called "artificial intelligence" has NOTHING intelligent about it. Comparing a computer program to the human brain is a marketing and propaganda operation.

Rich people think Human Rights are just "services" they can cut off if you dont pay.
Sadly, they convinced many people that that is true.

[koronkebitch@types.pl]

@tante also not to mention breaking access to information

[janantos@f.cz]

@tante I have a dream, AI can help us and can be helpful tool, but needs to be in hands of people not corporations. imagine something like distributed LLM running some federated way, allowing parcitipants to prompt for exchange of some small portion of compute time of their machine. Trained the same way. Project seti[at]home can be inspiration. And yep I know I have declare now myself as enemy of state and fediverse, but I truly believe this shall be way. We can eradicate AI datacenters, distribute energy usage cross world, save water and destroy that technobross seizure of our future.

[blackbird@social.sour.coffee]

@tante it's already annoying my dad is hyping chatgpt like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Like he's raving about cognitive decline. That's not what I want for myself.

[peter@social.linss.com]

@tante they’ve moved on from building the Torment Nexus to speed-running an old Asimov story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

[gary_alderson@infosec.exchange]

@tante how many tokens do you really need when they are practically free and you have some time to kill? they are already losing billions, the toxic combo of bill, sam, and elon has effectively killed any hopes of acting in good will or good faith with these guys. There are alternatives, i think it is going to take small biz a few years but viable alternatives will crop up that will alter opportunity cost, cut out the middleman #frank is dead #fair use LV

[ftranschel@norden.social]

@lritter @tante I think the answer to this question may put you in despair.

But don't fret; even good ol' Marie Antoinette already had an answer for that.

[omegapolice@hachyderm.io]

@tante They're already halfway done in some places. Some folks can't read, write, or do basic arithmetics without tool support anymore. Let alone summarize, argue, or conceptualize.

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@tante

People don't recognize how insidious things like those Roku "chill coffee shop" muzak channels are, as part of the whole deal to make minds mushy.

People have absolutely been enshittified along the way. The technology is proving that.