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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 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Two hot takes:

Firstly, generative AI has valid use cases for accessibility and quality of life features, unfortunately they're completely overlooked in favor of the future hellscape dystopia we've been hurtling towards for a while now, where consumerism will be the only valid form of self expression, and your individuality will continue to be suppressed in favor of profits. (But somehow communism is the anti-individuality system?)

Second, it would be better for humanity if these things were sentient and hated organic life, than it is for these things to be completely unthinking, and their hatred for organic life is just a byproduct of the will of their creators, because then butlerian jihad would be the socially acceptable position. As it stands, these are a much more insidious, normalized threat that everyone will go along with until there's no one left to remember that we ever had a reason not to do this.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Firstly, generative AI has valid use cases for accessibility and quality of life features.

Hard disagree. First, to get it out of the way, disabled artists should not be expected to use LLMs to "reach" the level of able bodied and neurotypical artists. I've seen this take be brought up in other places and its always shrouded in the same ableist rhetoric. Not that you were implying that if you arent.

Second, none of these features are necessary which cant already be replaced by a human. Need to summarize an article, what if the author just writes a summary for the article as well? The speaker has an accent or speaks in a way thats hard to hear: closed captioning subtitles and more access to sign language translators. There are better methods to solve these problems that dont require the resource consumption and lack of rationality that an LLM provides.

We were already in the hellscape dystopia when the first programmer signed an NDA and computers started becoming the property of corporations rather than being collectively owned by society itself. Nothing has changed except the absurdity of it all.

[–] 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.