mccJan 4, 2024
There *has* been a lot of talk about the problems with so-called "AI" but one I don't feel gets enough attention is that "AI" products are surveillance products. "AI" is inevitably run in a cloud service, and in order for the AI to know what to generate some amount of the context within your application— usually it's not clear to the user what context, or how much— has to get sent to the cloud. The more of my local app state that gets transmitted over the Internet, the less comfortable I am.
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@mcc Your choices are to either cut yourself off from that or fall behind people who have *effective* (note the emphasis) AI assistance

Personalized services have to know you as well as an equivalent human personal assistant would to be useful.

Again, you can refuse, but you risk being left behind by people who do put it to good use.

Good luck!

Show threadRev. Bussy Body of The Church of America MLM and Shooting ClubJan 4, 2024
@jdrch @mcc i'm reminded of the Left Behind movies by this rhetoric

and the fact that the verses the rapture people uses to bolster it are badly misinterpreted

in that the "two and one are left" phrases are in the context of using Sodom and the Flood as examples

and how (at least in Luke) when someone asks for clarification Jesus just says a cryptic line about bodies and vultures

being "left behind" in the contextually supported interpretation would mean someone is spared and survives
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@apophis @mcc To be clear, I don't think all AI applications or every AI idea is good. But those who don't use it as a tool are going to have as much luck with that vs. people who do as people who avoid computers or smartphones have vs. people who use those things.

Might not kill them, but by most accepted measures they won't be better off than others

Show threadRev. Bussy Body of The Church of America MLM and Shooting ClubJan 4, 2024
@jdrch @mcc i'm sure they'll have a lot of work (Rev. 14:11)
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@apophis @mcc Not a religious person, sorry!
Jan 4, 2024 at 10:26pmWeb