NOTE: I am NOT defending AI or it’s usage or anything like that. So just tie that horse right back up at the kitchen sink. I don’t like the whole AI thing. This post is not about AI.
I get that it was necessary at first, but now whenever there’s any hint of AI, there’s a great chorus of everyone saying the same thing ‘AI slop bla bla bla’ like a gaggle of sheep jerking their knees.
It’s not fucking helpful. It only sows even more division among the peasants, while the oligarchs take zero notice and continue on as usual. The correct way to engage with AI content you don’t like is just not at all.
Examples:
Recently I watched as a post for a community event was removed, because it had an AI image. The image was not requested or created by the organiser, it was provided to them, and had information in several languages. But the post was removed because AI slop and now there is less human connection happening. Yay. Well fucking done. You literally are helping the AI overlords now.
I’ve seen many actual legit digital artists getting hit with the cries of AI slop and even banned, when they have been making art for years before AI was even a thing. People actually can’t tell the difference half the time when they think they can, and end up hurting real artists.
Now is not the time to be attacking each other over using AI to generate some stupid meme. There are much, MUCH bigger issues at stake right now, and calling everything AI slop does nothing to help.
/rant
Because it has become a purity signal and tribal call rather than an actual coherent position. I’ve seen people get angry at researchers using AI to develop new drugs, and novel bacteriophages. I’ve seen people get angry at “AI” in word processing and image editing, claiming there’s no difference between ChatGPT and the algorithms than have been used for decades.
There is such a idiotic mix-up between the horrible corruption of OpenAI, and the term “AI” itself, that morons with no understanding of anything are waving torches and grabbing pitchforks at the word itself, without any comprehension of what they’re angry at.
Yeah, I guess that pretty-well covers it. Well said!
Not totally sure what you mean, there. I do use GPT a lot for complex searches, rarely anything else.
The large LLM companies really are doing some pretty shady shit. Loans on loans on loans (the bubble everyone is talking about). Shredding and destroying old books after scanning for training. Bowing down and supporting the current US administration that is rapidly descending to fascism. Funding the construction of these data super centers that are wrecking absolute havoc on the environment and people around them.
The tool is useful. Many of the companies promoting their models are fucking AWFUL. OpenAI is by far the worst offender, at the moment.
I hadn’t heard that part. I thought they were mainly running on VC funding.
I’ve seen this discussed on Reddit, with the rebuttal being that a massive amount of books are regularly shredded & destroyed on a regular basis, and have been long before LLM’s came along. Not trying to excuse anything on their part, but it’s a relative drop in the bucket from what I understand. Also, it’s not like we don’t have projects like Guttenberg, Archive.Org, Z-Library, Annas and whatever else also doing their best to scan & preserve books.
Agree with everything else, altho I don’t know enough to say which company might be worst. But point taken that they’re all pretty toxic and worrisome.