Comradeship // Freechat

there's the people who hate it bc they have petit-bourgueois leanings and think at the stuff as "stealing content" and "copyrighted material" like artist people, "code monkeys" or writers

and there's the people that hate it because it's an obvious grift made to siphon resources and "try" to be a big replacement for proles, and a huge wasteful technology that dries water sources and rises electricity bills with their data centers

yeah, it's kinda useful to make a drawing, fill blank space in a document, or being a dumb assistant who hallucinates anything to pretend that it knows stuff

It has a flattening effect. The things that come out the other end don't sound human. They sound like the collective mouth of reddit and blog spam.

I don't know why you'd use it for journaling. what feedback do you even need for journaling? Shouldn't that be your thoughts and not your thoughts filtered through the machine of averages and disembodied?

crowd isn't providing an alternative where you can get instant feedback when you're journaling

Side bar: This is a very specific usage of GenAI. Are you like writing your diary into ChatGPT?

GenAI really is taking people's jobs. It might not do it better. It might be less safe. It might even be less cost efficient. It's still happening.

Its not even a case of Do you think you can be replaced by AI? Instead its, Does your employer think you can be replaced with AI? Any white collar worker would be foolish to think that's something their employer has not considered. Corporate advertising is pleading them to reconsider multiple times a day.

It's not feedback. That's not what the tool is for. It doesn't have an opinion. There's no one on the other side of the screen. The "A" stands for Artificial.

"Providing and alternative where you can get instant feedback while you're journaling" Forgive me, could you elaborate? I'm a little confused

• Burocratic nightmare

GenAI can be kind of useful when you use it on purpose. But it will be used to make anything bureaucratic an even bigger nightmare. After sale customer support, talking to humans in a call center at least incurs costs to the corporation, with gen AI they can keep you in the loop forever for cents.

Unemployment claims, immigration, disability pay, hiring are also all made worse by AI.

• Devaluing human labor

They are coming for our jobs. Or at least they making our jobs worse.

• Waste of resources

Energy, water, computation ...

I think this is one of the weaker arguments tbh.

• Corporations get away with blatant mass theft of intellectual property

• Destruction of social reasoning

Science & academia already was in a bad spot with reproducibility crisis, fake/bad studies. Now this is automated.

Instead of letting humans do creative work, too much attention will be taken up reviewing slop.

This problem also exists in social and traditional media.

People also put a lot of implicit trust in AI answers when the answer might just be based on a whitewashed shitpost or wrong for other reasons. With websearch it's easier to judge yourself whether the source is to be trusted.

• People letting AI control their lives

This will be worse in the future when either companies learn how to manipulate datasets to get ahead (similar to search engine optimization). Or when AI companies will just straight up places advertisements in AI answers.

• Destruction of human connection

People replacing their human friends with AI friends and partners isn't healthy.

There is stuff like spellcheck and languagetool which can give you a specific variety of feedback.

lol

do not use an LLM for whatever the heck you think you're doing with it.

Those people are usually Westerners that take the easy route which is to blame a tool for the issues caused by capitalism.

However, if you look beyond the small western world into countries like China, Cuba, Vietnam and others in the global South, AI, including genai, is celebrated. You can find plenty of content in Xiaohongshu with comments fascinated with the inventions of people.

One example of this is this song created by a person that used AI for the production of it:

• Stand on the right side of history http://xhslink.com/o/2b6FrtTZhiZ

This is another where someone produces a video regarding neoliberalism to educate:

• How China Shattered the Neoliberal Dream http://xhslink.com/o/hq98nP5zd

There is even a Yotube channel called Dialectical Fire that posts incredible content using AI.

All I know is that this new form of luddism will disipate into history similarly to the past luddism of past century.