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Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

"But I still want to get paid for it."

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      12 days ago

      i mean every booster for AI tech is basically a weird asshole.

      if they were smarter and got more personable people to advocate for the tech maybe regular people would hate it less

      but instead it's either smarmy techbro psychos or cringe right wing assholes using it exclusively.

      • StalinStan [none/use name]
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        12 days ago

        Yeah, like in thr absence of capitlaism ai could be treat. But I stead being teatoilled about it people keep trying to use it to neoliberal harder so that does suck.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        12 days ago

        It could be a useful tool, especially on a personal computer level, with relatively little harm.

        It's unfortunately a tool that's boosted by tools and its environmental impact and electrical demands made drastically higher by the biggest tools around.

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          12 days ago

          yeah the actual tech that's actually squeezed out of it, basically the ability to exmaine large datasets and gather meaning from them, might actually be revolutionary

          the enviro impact does negate it. unless China has a bunch of excess generation capacity from their future thorium cycle reactors and just want to use it for actual noble purposes.

          i just don't trust the west to do it

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            12 days ago

            i just don't trust the west to do it

            That's my issue. Right now in Burgerland, it's a hype wave, a bazinga gold rush, and a lot additional pollution and wasted water and carbon dumping is happening to chase it. The inevitabilists that say "it will happen anyway" can fuck off. That's a defeatist attitude that would have solved absolutely nothing in history if applied anywhere else.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      12 days ago

      That’s what you get when you have a detestable crowd of conmen jumping from hyped thing to hyped thing to try and speculate and con money out of late entrants. It’s the same people, the crypto-bros and wallstreet bets people that go around pushing AI hype and everyone knows it reeks

      • StalinStan [none/use name]
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        12 days ago

        Yeah, ai is a fun toy. That is all it is going to be in this iteration. That's fine though. People like fun toys. That is the level of serious thought it deserves.