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@rusty__shackleford @qualia yesss good the furrification begins >:3

@rusty__shackleford @qualia Now I have to know your opinion: what kind of non-human creature would Dale Gribble actually be?

@anthropy You're not wrong, and the technology IS fascinating. It's beyond frustrating that so many of the worst people and companies in the fucking world are pushing this shit the way they are though - and the way they've lumped machine learning and LLMs together under the AI banner. I think ML is good and useful for the specific tasks the various models are built to do - like image recognition in Ente Photos, for instance - and it isn't the intellectual and environmental catastrophe generative models like LLMs (and the way they're being used today) are. I hate how GenAI is increasingly being used as a substitute for organic communication - let's let the slop machine write that blog post for you, or comment on your video, or read your e-mails and hallucinate things that were never said in them. And on top of that, let's trust the slop machine to be the arbiter of knowledge, because it's a computer and computers never make mistakes, right?

It's frustrating because I do legitimately think it's cool as fuck that you can use natural language to tell a computer what to do, and it will understand and do what you told it to do. I mean, that's a Star Trek level future and that's incredible! But GenAI is being misused to such a degree that it makes me not want to have *anything* to do with it. I can't get past the societal, intellectual, and environmental harms of the technology as it's being peddled to the masses today. And in fact I don't - I actively avoid technology that uses it to the greatest degree possible, especially products that shove it in my face like AI is the second coming of christ or some shit. That is absolutely the fault of the greedy, evil humans pushing this crap, yes - but they also have influence over the technology and how it is built and works, so imo the technology cannot be blameless in this situation either.

@stux Joined during one of the big migration waves from Twitter, loved the experience and decided to stay. It's been a good time!

@volpeon I definitely get where you're coming from, but like, from my perspective, when GenAI gets used in a project we generally have no idea how deeply the Ai was involved and whether or not the developer gave a shit about making sure any AI-generated contributions were reviewed and accurate which introduces uncertainties about the user experience - and I don't deal well with uncertainties in stuff I'm used to using. These concerns then combine with also seeing the use of GenAI as problematic both morally and environmentally - so for me, AI usage in such projects ends up becoming a scarlet letter that makes my interest just evaporate.

@ziphi eeee! *happy rumblepurrs as he presses into your petting paw*

@ziphi Yes please, of course! Contrary to popular belief, dragons *love* pets!