Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 months agoCan your confusion be treated with a scalpel?
Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 months agoCan your confusion be treated with a scalpel?
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dunno, is it heavy and blunt?
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
It’s AI… So… Yeah.
I dunno, I like AI for what it’s good for, the luddite argument doesn’t particularly sway me, my clothes, furniture, car, etc, are all machine made. Machine made stuff is everywhere, the handmade hill to die on was centuries back during the industrial revolution.
The anti-capitalist arguments don’t sway me when specifically applied to AI. The corporations are going to bad things? Well yeah! It’s not “AI bad” it’s “corporate bad”.
The ethical arguments kinda work. Deep fakes are bad, and I don’t think they the curios AI provides tip the scales when weighed against the and of deepfakes.
Tl:Dr AI is a heavy, blunt tool.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think my point is, the consumer versions of AI, like chat bots, are pretty shit, and they’re making us dumber. They’re also kind of dangerous, of which we’ve already seen numerous examples.
I’m also not interested as a programmer. I’m not looking to bug hunt as a profession. I want to make my own bugs, dammit! That’s the fun part! To create something! Not fix something a machine made until it’s ready to ship. How boring.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Ok but there’s a distinction between “you don’t see the value in it”, and “there is no value in it.” The first means, congrats don’t use it, leave everyone else alone, unless you want to sound like Ben Shapiro claiming hip-hop music isn’t music. The second is much harder to demonstrate, particularly as it’s value has already been demonstrated to many people. Just as an example, it turned a blank page into a covering letter that I could edit into what I wanted, breaking through blank page paralysis=value. Maybe it’s very little value, but it’s still value.
Back in my day calculators were making us dumber, and to be clear I would accent that mental numeracy ability is lower now, but not that we’re dumber for having them. Luddite arguments are not convincing, I suppose I’m still hearing “calculators are making us dumber”