@alexia i still worry about using tools with ML capabilities for things like separating stems in songs that otherwise don't have any available so i can (by hand afterward) make a silly mashup since people tend to conflate the two.
i'll also admit i tried a few LLMs for fiction writing but i wasn't able to springboard off the output so i trashed it.
I used LLM at some point in my life. Not that long ago (like a year or so). At that point I already knew they were shitty but used them to do dumb task so I convinced myself it was okay. Then I realized it was a very bad argument and stopped both using them and doing dumb task. I'm happier now.
@mitsunee @alexia Kinda seems like you don't understand *why* people are against "AI" if you think that you're making a point there.
Machine learning itself is fine. Trying to pretend that chat bots, which are inherently and irredeemably unreliable, should be used to generate or access knowledge, or to write code or design systems, or to (frankly) do anything *where the quality or reliability of the end product matters* (which is *almost* everything!) is fucking stupid and 1/
@mitsunee @alexia *will* get people killed. It's grossly negligent to rely on these things for work or learning.
It's also dubious to use generative AI for generating "art." The output is smoothed-over, averaged-out shit that erases almost all of a person's individuality (which necessarily includes technical *inability*) from the piece. It's the opposite of intentional, personal communication. It's lazy, low-effort, low-information noise. And it's the product of the ruling class once again 2/
@mitsunee @alexia *stealing* from the rest of us.
On top of this, this "AI" is being used to further codify systemic biases and oppression, to expand fascist surveillance programs (witness Palantir's work), and to deflect responsibility when things predictably go wrong.
All the while consuming massive amounts of material and energy that we *cannot* afford to waste on this kind of bullshit.
Machine learning is *everywhere,* from simple neural networks in video games dating back to the 3/
@zaire @mitsunee @alexia Yes, I was assuming "pro-slop," as the post did not come off at all as a joke to me. Randos spout nonsense in earnest all the time. Whether/how much I push back depends on my energy levels, and I was feeling uncomfortably energetic yesterday.
It looks like I've been blocked and can no longer see the thread, but I'll leave this here as an apology. I didn't realize you were trying to make a joke, so I went off as if you weren't. Sorry for that!
@alexia What about one of those scenarios where one stands up a local LLM model to learn how it works? Am I an irredeemable POS for being curious about new tech?
First of, that black-and-white thinking is immediately a red flag to me. It suggests they've been conditioned by social media to only accept extremes.
Second, the important thing is that I stopped using it after I took away what I wanted to learn. Know thy enemy, right?
wrong, some people legit can't improve because they are rotten from the inside
source: i knew at least 1 person in my irl life that was irredeemable
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