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As a general observation, I find that the more right-leaning a person is, the more they tend to be receptive to the usage and adoption of "AI". And inversely, the more left-leaning, the more skeptical.

I pin this on the notion that most conservatives hate workers, are happy to see them laid off, etc. Whereas more progressive folks tend to see value in what human beings do.

Moreover, communists like ourselves almost completely dismiss the plagarism slop machines as being utterly misanthropic, not to mention flying in the face of the labour theory of value.

As an anecdote, I work with a conservative guy who puts EVERYTHING through Grok. Almost everything he types/says to his team mates he gets Grok to write for him. Everything he "fact-checks" goes through Grok. He views it as totally impartial, without bias, etc.

On the other hand, I think more critically-minded folks are prone to seeing the inherent bias in these chatbot slop machines, and view them with skepticism in the same way they view all other institutions in society.

Clearly I am generalising a lot here, but has anyone else made the same or similar observation?

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[โ€“] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You and another commenter have good points about rhe bigger models ans how many prompts users hit them with. I think its dimishing returns after about 8 billion parameters and you can run those ones on old hardware. My home server is a 10 year old desktop. It cost $200 bucks to buy used last year and i didnt notice the energy costs. Me and my wife try to use it for any thing wed use an online one for instead. Probably only gets prompted about 10 times a week between the two of us.

๐Ÿค” I actually have a energy meter thing i could plug the the server into. I could do 100 prompts and tell you how much energy it ate for the day. Anybody interested?

[โ€“] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

You got it dude. Feel free to ping me if i forget to respond. Im a very forgetful comrade ๐Ÿซก

[โ€“] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

me catching up on my inbox

Oh yeah! ... somewhere in the many drawers of gadgets and gizmos there is a Kill-A-Watt meter in my house that I was wanting to use for a project...

[โ€“] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You got drawers for your gadgets and gizmos? I'm jealous all I got our unsorted canvas bins lmao.

[โ€“] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Too many mice and rats around to trust canvas bins.