Jamie TehOf all the questionable things about AI, I'm starting to think its biggest crime is simply the staggering amount of resources it has pointlessly drawn away from other, more important work and the way it has corrupted even organisations that were previously doing great work in some misguided, race-to-the-bottom belief that this is actually the most important thing for humankind.
Quentin@jcsteh the amount of damage to basically every major tech company is staggering, from the programs and code which have been wrecked, loss of reputation, good people losing their jobs or being taken off good projects for AI work... And as consumers we can't even complain because you have to deal with the AI chat bot...
@Quentin Worse, it's not just limited to major tech companies. This even applies to some smaller ones, even some not-for-profits, but it extends far beyond tech companies now.
@jcsteh true, we've even had a complaint that the development time spent on ai image description should have been spent on more pressing issues. I did explain that the work was done by an external project and surely having external developers familiar able to work on our code is a good thing, even if you don't use this particular feature. You can't win either way. But at least we were very clear to ensure it is offline & private, and if you don't to use it, don't enable it and you're no worse off than now. Or if you want to use the online models, keep using the add-ons you're using now