It Isn’t Just Bias and Threats to Creative Livelihoods. Generative AI Is Built on Nihilism. Its Real Product Is Despair.

Good post by David Golumbia on ChatGPT and how miserable it all is :rat-salute-2:

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    You are correct but I think in these discussions there is an assumption that AI tooling will eventually become good enough to overcome those problems.

    • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'm not particularly worried about that, tbh. These models don't understand why we put the things together that we put together, just that we do. They can duplicate the things we do, but that doesn't mean they can duplicate the subtextual conversation between the reader/viewer/listener and the art that makes art art in the first place.