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OpenAI stole research out from under mathematicians' noses and now suddenly all the STEM bros are very hot and bothered (europe.pub)
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Didn't care when the arts and humanities were being scraped dry, but suddenly they're all coming out against it now that they're going after the sciences

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[–] 102 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Nerds ≠ techbros.

One has been publishing research about environmental impact of generative AI datacenters since 2019.

The other has been going on twitter talking about how "chatgpt will replace the artists."

One invents math that can recognize cancer cells.

The other applies it to security cameras for the surveilance state.

In general, the people most critical of AI have been those that trained their own one at home for fun, and knew from beginning how fucking overhyped it is.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, I can also see how somebody who might see a use for AI in their own field isn't exactly for up it stealing work in theirs or others.

    There's a difference between "hey, we can train/build this tool to be useful to us" versus "we're cool with it ingesting everything and barfing out cat pictures"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    the people most critical of AI have been those that trained their own one at home for fun

    I wish this applied to me, but I never got any ideas to have fun with AI and there were enough things more interesting that I couldn't get the time. And now, I don't have the computing power to make any significant thing.

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