Fuck AI

This is Lemmy, after all.

And in contrast to the avalanche of slop we are currently enduring, the pre-commercialization era of Internet was wild, in a fun way. Yes, we had slop back then too, but it was naïve, gorgeous, hand-crafted slop.

Problem is the targe is not the competent experts, but the managers of the competent experts, who have basically eternally been inherently skeptical of those experts and looking for the flimsiest hope to discard them.

Many of the best and most important people let themselves be subordinate to some idiots.

Not pertinent to AI, but just had one of these 'leaders' laying out how some project was going to go and why we didn't even need to bother with any contingencies and that folks would be wasting their time. Every one with a whiff of experience knows these projects don't go as described 90% of the time, and prepping the usual contingencies is less than an hour as long as you just plan to do it in advance. However, the very expensive partner service says they have it in hand, and despite this same partner boffing the last 6 of these in a row, the idiot still has absolute confidence in them...

In short, these guys get put in charge and are idiots and folks let them stay "in charge" because they don't have the will to fight it.

Who chose a real estate VP for commencement speaker in the first place. That's the peraon we should be calling out of touch.

I don't even consider LLMs that. I just consider them a massive waster of power and water that inherently degrade everything they touch and have terrible impacts on cognitive and behavioral health.

I'm not worried that AI is gonna take my job, not in a thousand years, what I'm worried about is that AI is going to BURN THIS PLANET on top of being a constant daily annoyance.

The sorts of folks that get invited and accept these sorts of engagements are frequently self absorbed and out of touch. The hubris needed to think some randos want to hear you speak... Only hope is if the person has some particular reason they would make sense (e.g. if they are an alumni, then at least they might feel like they have a connection).

The same general phenomenon as when they thought a centerpiece of the Xbox One release should be.... DVRing the Price is Right..... The same as when blizzard said "Do you guys not have phones?"

If you are lucky, a speaker will just say nothing vaguely specifically.

I had to watch the video. She looks so confused when they start booing. She tries laughing it off, says something else to tout AI and is booed again. Completely tone deaf.

I wish more people would understand that LLMs are "taking" extremely few jobs away. The "chatbots can do a real job" narrative is just there to bump up the stock prices.

A real AI would incur massive job loss, but the job losses we're seeing now being blamed on AI are really just the same normal oligarchal greed at work.

I see not only an era of scamming that will break basic human trust systems but the reliance on it will riddle previously methodical fields like medicine, design and law with a barrage of flaws and falsehoods no one will check until they cause failures.

Not just jobs, but:

• Scammers that make convincing fakes
• Knock-offs that get your views before you realize that it's hollow slop instead of what you were expecting for
• Flooding the field of creative content with hollow stuff devoid of actual creative intent, mistaking verbosity and detail for quality creative content.
• Exploiting small communities that either let big tech walk over them in general, or they just have to bribe a few city managers at pretty modest prices.

I suppose the scammers are about the only arguably common downside between the AI boom and the dot-com boom, but it was at the time less compelling because it was such an 'alien' medium that people weren't trusted, whereas AI is corrupting a familiar medium with even more scam than people are used to.

New machines can't count the 'r's in "strawberry".

No, they can! They just first need to have a system prompt instructing them to generate and run a python script to do it.

And yet, it's us meatbags being called inefficient.

Also, the industrial revolution fucked over a lot of people during the transition period so even if it was an accurate comparison it's rather callous to celebrate it.