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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."

  • 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.