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[–] 180 points 2 days ago (31 children)

An entire industry built around burning cash, water, and electricity to generate questionable answers based on glorified autocorrect. It’s astounding.

Throw another few trillion and a couple dozen rain forests at it. Completely rational behavior.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    glorified autocorrect and plagiarism/nonatribition.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Have you actually used it recently? It’s become incredibly good. Calling it a glorified autocorrect is like calling ASML’s lithography machines a glorified polaroid camera.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Now now this is the frediverse. Your only allowed to ignore facts and hate on ai around here.

    There's plenty of good reasons to hate AI but in case you missed the notice on the door your not allowed to have nuance. It's all or nothing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    lol... it's hardly limited to the fediverse bud, people are learning why the economy is fucked: AI

    why can't they buy a console? AI.

    OR A GPU.

    OR AN SSD.

    OR RAM.

    OR A FUCKING SPINNING DISK HDD.

    why does the food in the adverts look like nightmare fuel? AI.

    why does the president think he's popular? AI.

    Tim Sweeney castigates Kenny - why? AI.

    Musk can't synthesize a personality so he snorts ketamine and AI.

    where's the upside, ASSHOLES? Your garbage is fucking up the entire planet, great fuckin work FANBOYS, shove that up your ass for NUANCE

    In 20 years - if there's still a civilization - they're all gonna look back and wonder how so many were so fuckin dumb.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    In 20 years we ALWAYS look back and wonder how so many were so fucking dumb. Thats literally history. Theres never a point where there isn't some major fucking bunch of absolute idiots trying to ruin everything.

    Ai is just this decades attempt at ruining everything.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago (18 children)
  • [+] -42 points 1 day ago (14 children)

    You act as though those billions of dollars spent towards other things (like cancer research) would somehow be better.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    ?

    Fucking yes it would be better to put hundreds of billions of dollars every year into curing cancer/HIV/ Type 1 diabetes/alzheimers, literally any disease. Curing a major illness like those would actively help hundreds of thousands or millions of people around the world every year.

    What does AI help? My fucking manager in sending cryptic emails that raise more questions than answers?

    Dump a few hundred billion into disease research, or fusion power, or just into housing for all of us.

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  • [+] -21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    AI helped me with my voting ballot. I asked Kagi's AI to research the ambiguous candidates and propositions. I had it put them into a political alignment chart - left/centrist/rightwing. Addendums for candidates included things like whether they had criminal convictions or corruption, stance on vaccinations, how they feel about "tough on crime", the homeless, ect.

    For propositions, the political alignments had a fourth entry added, where the yes/no included the wealth level of backers for a position.

    This is very useful, completing in a hour what would have taken a week of research. Very useful for digging into the mechanical details of a proposition, like whether it prevented the replacement or supplementing of a measure.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    How do you know that anything it displayed was accurate for those candidates? Every single time I've asked it to include source links, those source links don't actually support the AI's statement.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    One of the candidates was appointed to their office by a Republican governor, and elevated more recently by a Democratic one. The AI referred to official government records.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Well, that's one candidate. And a reference to an official gov doc doesn't meant the info was extracted or summarized accurately.

    How about the others?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Remember to never miss the /s

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    But have you considered that it's like REALLY good at programming? /s

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    What's stupid is, you could even just keep just the programming part, and it would become much more efficient and not ramble on with explanations etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    If an LLM was something you could train on your GitHub repo or an internal knowledge base, and ask it natural language questions about that, AND it didn't need an 800 acre datacenter to do it, I wouldn't have so many hang-ups about it. Or maybe even train a model in a programming language and have a model that's tailor made for writing C, or LISP, or Brainfuck or something.

    But that's not what they are. They only function if you hoover up everything the light touches and feed it to the machine, to the point where rare, irreplaceable literature is being shredded apart for training data. And god help you if you try to take your ball and go play somewhere else as the AI boosters profess you must do, they will follow you there and scrape you anyway

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