• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 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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      2 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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      13 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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        12 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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          11 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.

          • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            7 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.