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handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Personally I get a lot of value out of LLMs. I’ve used them almost everyday for the last three years in various projects and general chat bots, but I wouldn’t call myself an AI Booster. I’ve heard the criticisms about Gen AI the author addresses and I believe this is another case of blaming technology instead of the capitalists behind it. Do you hate the fact that a computer can generate text or images or do you really just hate the assholes that unethically scraped all of our human achievements for their benefit and are willing to destroy everything to enrich themselves on our labor? I bet it’s the latter.

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Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s the latter, counter point; the tool never would have existed without the unethical scraping.

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Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
He’s pretty explicit in that regard. He even added an interesting point at the start of the article : most people he knows who actually work with AI and know shit about it are not boosters. It’s an important distinction that Ed doesn’t ignore.

He is against the over hype of “AGI” and skeptical of the hundreds of billions that have been poured into it for sinister reasons. He’s not denying that the tech has uses, but rather confronting the value of those uses with their actual, non subsidized cost.

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