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I have realized a lot of posts on here mostly criticizing the data collection of people to train A.I, but I don't think A.I upon itself is bad, because A.I- like software development- has many ways of implementations: Software can either control the user, or the user can control the software, and also like software development, some software might be for negative purposes while others may be for better purposes, so saying "Fuck Software" just because of software that controls the user feels pretty unfair, and I know A.I might be used for replacing jobs, but that has happened many times before, and it is mostly a positive move forward like with the internet. Now, I'm not trying to start a big ass debate on how A.I = Good, because as mentioned before, I believe that A.I is as good as its uses are. All I want to know from this post is why you hate A.I as a general topic. I'm currently writing a research paper on this topic, so I would like some opinion.

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If we take the forum title here, the "fuck" is directed at the people in charge of so-called "AI" companies. The technology has value. It's just being forcefed down our throats in ways that remind us of block chain and whatever happened to block chain?!

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The tech with the most push behind it is being pushed in infancy, and is damn near useless without datasets of entirely stolen content.

There's genuinely useful things and impressive tech under the machine learning umbrella. This "AI" boom is just hard pushing garbage.

This past week we saw the most obvious example yet of why they're pushing LLMs so far too, Grok's unprompted white supremacist ramblings over on twitter. These tools can easily be injected with biases like that (and much more subtly too) to turn them into a giant propaganda machine.

Some of the tech is genuinely useful and impressive, but the stuff getting the biggest pushes is nothing but garbage, and the companies behind it all are vile.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

Well scammers destroyed its reputation and governments refused to use the tech BC it would expose corruption.

Make no mistake when the next reshuffle happens, it will the bedrock of all of systems esp government and finance.

People in power are not interested in such transparency currently