• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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    24 hours ago

    There is no way (in this world that we have created) to use AI “responsibly”. No matter what you choose, you are building on the base of wage theft, human suffering, environmental destruction and empowerment of the oligarchies.

    AI is not “like any other technology”. That’s techbro acceleracionist slopaganda.

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      8 hours ago

      No matter what you choose, you are building on the base of wage theft, human suffering, environmental destruction and empowerment of the oligarchies

      so… like… any other technology after all then?.. otherwise I highly suggest you throw away your phone, your store-bought clothes, most of what you own, really.

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        37 minutes ago

        Oh look it’s the same accelerationist argument as usual, that just because you loathe one technology you must throw away all of them.

        Try at least high-school grade of discussion.

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          Try at least high-school grade of discussion.

          Agreed, you really should take that advice to heart! I mean, I get it, it’s fun to hate the new thing with everyone else and virtue signal as hard as you can, as long as you don’t try to apply the same vigor the literally any other part of your life

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      10 hours ago

      No, not really. There are models based on freely given training data. There are models used without wasting large amounts of electricity. There are models that aren’t used to empower the oligarchs.

      It sounds like you are mad at our economic and societal structures, but taking your anger out on the tools.

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        34 minutes ago

        It sounds like you are mad at our economic and societal structures, but taking your anger out on the tools.

        I can be mad at both the exploitative structures and at the toolkits that enable, further and synthetize them. They don’t need to be mutually exclusive, and in general it’s not useful that they are.

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      21 hours ago

      Would you say the same of electricity? There is no way to use it responsibly because its all based on exploitative resource extraction?

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        20 hours ago

        Please, try at least some modicum of intellectual discourse. Electricity is quite a physical phenomenon of nature, like rain, we can not impart moral judgment on them.

        All that said, there are ways to use electricity without “exploitative resource extraction”, for example with a potato.

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          19 hours ago

          You need to divorce your thinking of AI as a current prominent manifestation of the capitalistic black hole and the technology itself. Before that is was Crypto. Before that it was cloud, before that it was property derivatives. Capitalism will just hijack anything where they can extract value from the quickest.

          AI as a technology is very much real and very much physical, it follows the same physical rules that everything else is. Denying that is like saying steam power is not real because you can’t see the force pushing.

          AI has been around for 50 years now. Its driven much of engineering progress in the 70s and 80s, our chemical and biological research in the 90s and physics in the 2000s.

          The current large language learning models are just a next progression of this technological trend.

          Remember absolutism is toxic.

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            39 minutes ago

            You need to divorce your thinking

            I already did, but you refuse to read it. I explicitly said this is about how A (or what people call “AI”, because it certainly has not existed for “around for 50 years now”) exist in this world how we have created it. Via theft, exploitation and destruction, and oriented to the fulfillment of the elites and the oppression of the worker class.

            Absolutism is toxic, yes. Moderated realism upon a flagrant observation of reality as conducted, is not.

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            15 hours ago

            AI has been around for 50 years now.

            I really don’t care.

            This is so divorced from the current discussion of what AI is doing now that it’s a waste of time even talking about it.