AI needs to stop

[autistomephisto@lemmy.world]

Exactly. I can code and make a simple game app. If it gets some downloads, maybe pulls in a little money, I'm happy. But I'm not gonna produce endless mtx and ad-infested shovelware to make shareholders and investors happy. I also own a 3D printer. I've done a few projects with it and I was happy to do them, I've even taken commissions to model and print some things, but it's not my main job as there's no way I could afford to sit at home and just print things out all month.

[autistomephisto@lemmy.world]

I mean, they have Alexa connected refrigerators with a camera inside the fridge that sees what you put in it and how much, to either let you know when you're running low on something or ask to put in an order for more of that item before you run out.

[bronzebeard@lemm.ee]

Nft didn't fail, it was just the idiotic selling of jogs for obscene amounts that crashed (most of that was likely money laundering anyway). The tech still has a use.

Wouldn't exactly call crypto a failure, either, when we're in the midst of another bull run.

[sabata11792@ani.social]

My only side hussle worthy skill is fixing computers and I rather swallow a hot soldering iron than meet a stranger and get money involved.

[horni@lemmy.world]

It's the fucking touch screens again.

[baggachipz@sh.itjust.works]

It’s probably just a sticker they put over the word “smart”

[bronzebeard@lemm.ee]

That's a different argument entirely from "no possible benefit", though

[baggachipz@sh.itjust.works]

Ah yes, please fire up the washing machine at 3am and scare the fuck out of everybody. And then let the clothes sit in there wet so that when you wake up, they smell like mildew

[therapygary@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I get what you mean, but people might read this and think Perplexity is an ethical company.

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[scytale@lemm.ee]

I was referring mostly about security conferences. Last year almost every vendor was selling API security products. Now it’s all AI infused products.

[scytale@lemm.ee]

Have you been to any appsec conferences last year? It was all API security. This year it was all AI-leveraged security products.

[woodscientist@lemmy.world]

At this point, I'm full on ready to make "though shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" global international law and a religious commandment. At least that way, we can burn all AI grifters as witches!

[daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Get into self hosting.

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[meliaesc@lemmy.world]

Relevant ad.

[mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works]

Yes, you're absolutely right. The first StarCoder model demonstrated that it is in fact possible to train a useful LLM exclusively on permissively licensed material, contrary to OpenAI's claims. Unfortunately, the main concerns of the leading voices in AI ethics at the time this stuff began to really heat up were a) "alignment" with human values / takeover of super-intelligent AI and b) bias against certain groups of humans (which I characterize as differential alignment, i.e. with some humans but not others). The latter group has since published some work criticizing genAI from a copyright and data dignity standpoint, but their absolute position against the technology in general leaves no room for re-visiting the premise that use of non-permissively licensed work is inevitable. (Incidentally they also hate classification AI as a whole; thus smearing AI detection technology which could help on all fronts of this battle. Here again it's obviously a matter of responsible deployment; the kind of classification AI that UHC deployed to reject valid health insurance claims, or the target selection AI that IDF has used, are examples of obviously unethical applications in which copyright infringement would be irrelevant.)

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

Wouldn't you know, AI has also been algorithmically based and around since the 1950s?

AI as a field isn't just neural networks and GPUs invented in the last decade. It includes a lot of stuff we now consider pretty commonplace.
Using some simple variables to measure a few continuous values to make decisions about soap quantity, water to dispense, and the number of rinse cycles is pretty much a text book example of classical AI. Environmental perception and changing actions to maximize the quality of its task outcome.

AI effect - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works]

I mean you're technically correct from a copyright standpoint since it would be easier to claim fair use for non-commercial research purposes. And bots built for one's own amusement with open-source tools are way less concerning to me than black-box commercial chatbots that purport to contain "facts" when they are known to contain errors and biases, not to mention vast amounts of stolen copyrighted creative work. But even non-commercial generative AI has to reckon with it's failure to recognize "data dignity", that is, the right of individuals to control how data generated by their online activities is shared and used... virtually nobody except maybe Jaron Lanier and the folks behind Brave are even thinking about this issue, but it's at the core of why people really hate AI.

[mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works]

Honestly I find this feature of my washer/dryer super-useful because it reminds me to turn the stuff over instead of forgetting and letting it sit in the washer getting midlewy

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

Natural unintelligence

[explodicle@sh.itjust.works]

This is why I only invest in things I actually want to use myself.