Daniel AppelquistIf AI is so great, why does it always seem to be on the side of fascism? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yj97yd6v5o
David Soria Parra@torgo because you are cherry picking. There is plenty of positive impact like https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04176-7 and lots of others. As with every technology there will be horrible use and we have to go and fix that as providers and as policies. Generalization here doesn’t help.
An LLM chatbot to facilitate primary-to-specialist care transitions: a randomized controlled trial - Nature Medicine
In a trial involving 2,069 patients and 111 clinicians across 24 disciplines, patients performing a preconsultation session with an LLM-powered chatbot had a significantly lower consultation time and both patients and clinicians reported improved communication and satisfaction.
@dsp I was being overly broad, I grant you. And I do acknowledge that there are positive impact use cases for Gen-AI. But, when it comes to Gen-AI created images or video, I have yet to encounter such a use case, whereas there is a laundry list of use cases that are actively harmful to society.
@torgo I tend to agree. Image gen so far seems to have been more on negative side.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESof course you can use AI for good. but AI as it is is VC funded and plutocrat controlled
so it pushes plutocrat political and economic agendas to our detriment
the issue is not that we don't recognize the positive potential of a technology. every technology *can* have a positive impact, that's braindead obvious and thus without merit as an observation
the problem is you don't acknowledge the bulk of AI is used for bigotry and fascism
until that changes, like crypto, AI is shit
AT Hayes@benroyce @dsp @torgo Curious about open LLM models that people can keep on their own equipment and use personally; trained on open data, and not snooping on everyone’s activity, as mentioned in articles like this: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Is there enough will and talent to pull our information, social media, and even these away from corporate silos?
