Mastodawn

Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.

AI is cognitive suburbanization.

Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.

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What's it to you?Feb 4

@emc2 It also scales to entire cultures -- whatever the dominant training source is will reduce the influence of any smaller cultural contributions even if the prompt is specifically tailored to that culture. It can't do otherwise, since they're designed to 'fill in the gaps' with whatever is laying around in the model's latent space.

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Eric McCorkle

@alltherum Yep, absolutely.

I only had so much space to type, but wiping away all the "ugly" margins and turning everything into a whitewashed, homogenized, picket fenced (white, straight, protestant, etc.) Stepford suburb? Definitely a thing.