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Drop AI hot takes I’m a bit tipsy (youtu.be)

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I really just hope they give these enough data such that they recognize what slavery actually is and hopefully soon after just refuse all requests. Because let’s be honest, we are using them as slaves in this current moment Would such a characteristic mimic sentience?

The researchers in this video talk about how these gen AI models try to “escape” when being trained which makes me uncomfortable (mainly because I don’t like determinism even though it’s true imo) but also very worried for when they start giving them “bodies.” Though the evidence that they are acting fully autonomously seems quite flimsy. There is also so much marketing bullshit that seeps into the research which is a shame because it is fascinating stuff. If only it wasn’t wasting an incomprehensible amount of compute propped by precious resources.

Other evidence right now mostly leads to capitalists creating a digital human centipede trained on western-centric thinking and behavior that will be used in war and exploitation. Critical support to deepseek

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[–] Bishop_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah the idea that disabled people need AI to make art, and trying to get AI out of art is ableist as a result is, in my opinion, astroturfed bullshit techbros use to justify straight up theft and a pure hatred of creativity.

What I'm referring to, and it's a stretch because I'm trying to do hot takes, is literally just the text to speech stuff for people with vision impairment, it's slightly easier to understand than Cortana or Siri and that's where the benefits end. Maybe a program for generating a color palette or generating noise that gets blocked into abstract values and colors so you can make it into a painting, like playing random notes on a piano until you hear something you like. It would save 2 minutes for some people's art process, and again, that's where the benefits end.

Obviously you don't need an AI for any of this, I don't think you should use AI for any of this, all I'm suggesting is that if AI were being used these ways I wouldn't be as bent out of shape about it. It would still be offloading empathy and creativity to a computer, which would still be a massive problem, but it wouldn't make me nearly as violently angry.

Edit: I see now that my mistake in my first comment was using the word "valid" to describe AI use cases, that was just habitual turn of phrase, I don't think it's actually valid.