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It's being used to replace human workers by the exploitative wealthy, and it's actively destroying the environment we live in. If you are not against "AI" (that is, generative machine learning models - there's no intelligence involved) then you are colluding with the robber barons.
That is caused by Capitalism, not AI.
Unless you are training your models at home on your own private server, the current generation of ML models are dependent on the capitalist corporate model. They are trained on large datasets collected by corporate surveillance using server farms owned and operated by corporations, by developers paid by those corporations.
The capitalism and the "AI" are inextricably linked. If you use any of their apps you are patronizing them.
Luckily there's hope:
https://futurism.com/klarna-openai-humans-ai-back
I'm actually not sure how to interpret this image in this context... are you implying that the argument over AI is part of the culture war distraction? or are you agreeing with me that AI is a tool of "they"?
Then copy the picture yourself
How many human workers lost their jobs because of this meme?
Here is the answer for self-assessment:
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zeroUh huh, and how many graphic artists lost their jobs because of this model (and others like it) being sold to companies as a way to produce marketing material without paying an artist?
And how many unnecessary pounds of carbon were pumped into the atmosphere because of this meme?
This post is bad and deserves 20 "ai slop" comments because somebody did something else somewhere else using a similar tool? Is that what you think?
You either object to the acceleration of exploitation and environmental destruction and refuse to participate in it, or you are a collaborator.
Wow, I destroyed your original argument, so you brought a new one without even acknowledging that you were wrong. It's a brilliant way to never lose an argument.
Um, actually this is my original argument...
See my comment here: https://infosec.pub/post/28262077/15946745
This:
...is a restatement of that original expressed truth.
It normalizes the use of genAI for even more things.
Today it's just shitposts, where quality isn't important.
Tomorrow it'll be one off projects that their creator really wanted to be out, so quality won't be important.
After tomorrow, it'll be small group efforts becoming "solo endeavours" with lower quality artwork.
After that, it'll be corporations within the creative fields that really want to lay off their workforce, even if it means lower quality work, because they can make up with the lower production costs and higher quantity.
And one day, we will wake up to a reality, where everything is AI generated slop, and we won't be the "idea guys", who write the prompts for them.
If you ask: not all other technologies were all good either. Cars made us dependent on them, forever restructuring our cities, atomizing our communities. Hell, some of the tools that made creative endeavors, such as home recording and easy to use game engines caused "the bedroom djent kid" and "fetishization of solo indie devs" problems respectively.
That reminds me of Putin's argument on why a person who threw a plastic drinking glass at a policeman was arrested: "Today they throw plastic drinking glasses, tomorrow they'll start throwing molotovs, then - killing people."
The irony in this is that autocrats really love generative AI, especially when it is used to dismantle democracy.
There is no irony. Autocrats use all available tools. They would use lemmy and fediverse too if it wasn't too small to manipulate public opinion.
But.. but.. the children in the meme mines will go hungry tonight, you monster