Mastodawn

"Generative" AI is antithetical to FLOSS projects, of course, but if you are a dev who understands that, PLEASE let your users know!

I've been trying to find a open source, decentrialized messenger to use and recommend to people, but I'm struggling to find one that is explicit in it's condemnation of AI slop. It's something I especially need to be sure of in this case, because it's already hard enough to get people to move from Discord at all.
I can personally abandon a program if the devs start making bad decisions, but I can't encourage my friends to adopt a totally new communication platform, only to find that it's being enshittified as well after we all put in the effort to switch.

#ai #GenerativeAI #AISlop #FuckAI #NoAI #LLM #LLMs #floss #foss #opensource #discord #discordalternatives #enshitification

Emma Stamm 2h ago

Cool event alert: on April 30, I’ll be discussing Leif Weatherby‘s “Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism” as part of a book talk at Teachers College, Columbia University. The event is free and Columbia affiliation is not required; you can RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/edycUxP7 or through the QR. Hope to see you there!

#AI #LLMs #philosophy #tech #NYC

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cloudskater 2h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116244751172093572

I'm so sorry in advance for this long post, but this has been on my mind lately and I want others' thoughts on it.

I think I agree with the person I'm quoting, but I can't be sure because despite using it, I'm starting to hate "AI" as a term. It's not their fault that the definition has been mutilated, but I have to wonder if they're against AI in theory or in it's current form.

My stance is against any sort of "AI" that steals the work of others and either claims it as original, or uses it to modify someone's otherwise untainted creation. I assume that's what they're referring to, in which case I 100% agree.

That said, I'm unaware of any issues with machine learning itself when ethical and, of course, not based around widespread theft. So, OP, what do you think about using such programs to automate painfully tedious tasks? This wouldn't steal from others or remove any creativity from a work, only use a algorithm to, for instance, display rough subtitles as a placeholder for, or in absence of, proper ones. It could also be used as a starting point for a person to later refine. This kind of thing has been around for years, in the same way text-to-speech voices have helped the vision impaired and even ADHDers like myself (I have trouble reading long-ass academic essays).

Previous examples of this tech haven't caused harm, so if a system for generating subtitles is FLOSS and improves with usage (I think that's what machine learning means?), then it's a good thing, right? How do I distinguish between such software and the dystopian slop machines we're all rallying against?

#ai #GenerativeAI #AISlop #FuckAI #NoAI #LLM #LLMs

Metin Seven 🎨4h ago

😆

#NVIDIA #DLSS #DLSS5 #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer

Stefan Bohacek 5h ago

"This is just such a low tech, simple intervention, and can make people feel significantly less lonely."

https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-loneliness-study-college-students-random-strangers-texting/

#study #MentalHealth #loneliness #ChatBots #AI #LLMs

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

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Mrs.Malice ❤️‍🔥✨6h ago

🔮 alice’s AI predictions:

openAI ~> gets absorbed by microsoft

gemini ~> will make the most $$ on ads

anthropic ~> 50/50 toss-up between being taken over by hegseth or going full heaven’s gate

all other genAI companies ~> pets.com

#noAI #genAI #LLMs

Metin Seven 🎨8h ago

NVIDIA DLSS 5 be like…

#DLSS #DLSS5 #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI #NVIDIA #mario #nintendo #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer

Xamanismo Coletivo 9h ago

"The #research looked at college students specifically, to try to understand whether #LLMs could be a scalable tool to help with the #isolation that people can feel when going through a big change. The transition to college can be overwhelming: new classmates, new places, new rules. Young people are often away from parents or familiar structure for the first time, building out their new social networks among others who are doing the same. This is a particularly vulnerable time: if #chatbots could really cure #loneliness for a group of people like this, “then it would be great,” said Li. But only human to #human interaction, despite it being with a random person over text, had any significant effect."

https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-loneliness-study-college-students-random-strangers-texting/

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

404 Media

Jeff MAURY 9h ago

Want to play with GPU enabled LLMs: You should read this: https://developers.redhat.com/learn/ai/get-started-consuming-gpu-hosted-large-language-models-developer-sandbox #redhat #ai #LLMs #kserve #vllm

Get started with consuming GPU-hosted large language models on Developer Sandbox | Red Hat Developer

Learn the many ways you can interact with GPU-hosted large language models (LLMs) on Developer Sandbox, including connecting the model endpoints, interacting with the API endpoints using the hosted

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