SeanSince Mastodon loves to hate on AI, here's my position. It's a very powerful tool to do research (explore a problem space) with a pseudo-expert on everything, able to pull data from the internet exponentially faster than you can. But it shouldn't be used to generate final output for other people (whether it's an email or a PR) because those are skills that you need to develop initially and maintain over time. AI as theft only matters if copyright and capitalism should be preserved
Yes some people are de-skilling themselves, so what? It's their lives. The internet left has a bit of a moralizing problem because of the social media dopamine loop. Log off if you find yourself pulled into internet arguments
RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116226477076027421
This was me in the early days of the trend, cutting myself off from people who expressed interest in AI. I later realized that this social media bubble behaves similarly to the extreme right: largely generating reactionary discourse on how bad the world is. How about we build a better future instead?
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]l/116226477995710817
On the subject of open source becoming slop, the sad truth is a lot of the code effectively always was, like ImageMagick which has always been highly untrustworthy because it's written in C. If your code can't be audited for security, it can't be fully reviewed. We should be pushing everything to be rewritten in verifiable languages like Rust
google stapler quartermaster@seanlinsley the slop even claims to be from the former shop it's insulting to act like software is apolitical
@jack under the current system of capitalism, yes that's terrible. And then there's my tax dollars funding war crimes and genocide. But I don't have control over those things, and am no longer willing to spend my limited time on the planet hating everything because that's not an empowering force; it's a paralyzing force. I'll do what I can when I can