My understanding is most of you are anti AI? My only question is…why? It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness. No joke the AI in sci fi movies is worse than what we actually have in many ways!

Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”. If that’s what being Anti AI is…to that I say Amen.

But simply not liking a privacy conscious experience or utilization of AI at all? I’m not getting it?

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    1 month ago

    lol, you’re getting downvoted just for asking, that should sum up the whole argument.

    The hate is real here, and IMO most of it is unjustified. There are a few good points that are made:

    • Training data was not ethically sourced. Can’t get around that, it just wasn’t. It was legal-ish, but it wasn’t moral. Image generators especially, the art was not willingly given - but IMO if you aren’t taking work out of their hands I don’t have a major issue with it.
    • Same as your issue, AI is being shoved everywhere embodying the “If you’re a hammer everything is a nail”.
    • Privacy concerns as you’ve talked about, and security.

    That being said, I don’t have any issues with using it at home, local LLMs, and I’ll even say I use it daily to help with coding. I’ve been coding for 20 years and I have to admit it does help, if you know when to use it. It has sped me up considerably.