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• revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think the point you’re missing is that without the monetary incentive that arises under capitalism, there would be very little drive for anyone to build these wasteful AI systems. It’s difficult to imagine a group of people voluntarily amassing and then using the resources necessary for “AI” absent the desire to cash in on their investment. So you’re correct that an alternative economic system won’t “magically” make LLMs go away. I think it unlikely, however, that such wasteful nonsense would be used on any meaningful scale absent the perverse incentives of capitalism.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s difficult to imagine a group of people voluntarily amassing and then using the resources necessary for “AI” absent the desire to cash in on their investment.

    No imagination necessary.

    I mean Dmitry Pospelov was arguing for AI control in the Soviet Union clear back in the 70s.

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    • Val@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Just another way the state capitalist soviet union was closer to capitalism than socialism.

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• melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t need it to not exist. I need it to stay the fuck out of everyone’s lives unless they work in a lab of some kind.

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    everyone remembers tomogatchi, they were like a digital houseplant.

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    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      cool, but where do you get them?

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      • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You can still buy new ones. Take a nap.

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      • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        the used market

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