Again, this is a lot of hyperbole.
Is AI killing the planet, or is capitalism and addiction to fossil fuels? If AI was 100 renewable and run based on community consent, would it still be “killing the planet”?
In what way does AI “steal” in any way more significantly than an artist uses another artist for inspiration or a coder uses another open source project for their code?
How does AI widen inequality worse than it has been already, and is that solely the result of AI or is it just a product of capitalism?
I could go through the entire list, but you get the idea. A lot of the “evils” of AI are actually just symptoms of deeper systemic issues that have nothing to do with AI itself.
peepeepoopoo@hilariouschaos.com 6 hours ago
As a thought experiment I considered all of these points and here are my thoughts.
Buying textures for your hand made 3d models only supports the corporation selling them and the original artists get very little if anything at all. Using ai to circumvent spammy price gouging for 3d model textures seems like a better way to fight back to me. Another point is that copyright trolls are always harassing random youtubers over bullshit claims which DOES destroy livelihoods. Using ai to create a unique illustration that isn’t registered in a copyright strike database when you REALLY weren’t going to pay a $20 license for some spammy corporate licensed art either way really seems like a legitimate use of ai to me.
Another thing is memes even. I would 100%, absolutely, positively, never ever in a million years commission a human artist for the hundreds of dollars it usually costs to make an illustration for a meme in a shitpost I was trying to make. Yet people get out their torches and pitchforks anytime someone uses ai in a shitpost. I just don’t get it. It’s the “pirating software STEALS money from developers” argument all over again. Is it REALLY stealing if you WEREN’T going to pay for whatever it was otherwise? In 2018 the average person online was practically up in arms over how unfair copyright law is and everyone dropped it to hate ai instead. Seems a little too convenient is you ask me. I think a lot of people have been played.
Also facial recognition cameras, more about that further down.
Makes us stupid A few days ago I used a self hosted ai to help write a python script to run object recognition on the cctv cameras for my home network and it only took an afternoon. It would have taken longer to do this if I truly had to figure out and research every little detail and function name myself but I still could have done it. Sure there was some incorrect stuff in it but fixing that was still faster than doing it from scratch. I used the time I saved to also program a graph that shows the temperature history on my weather station. Does this mean I am stupid?
Makes everything generic 100% true. In 2014 or so, you could find anything you wanted on the internet. Now every single webpage is one big nothing-burger. Would corporate enshitification alone have brought things to this point even without ai? Maybe so, maybe not. The point stands.
Blows up the economy It definitely provides a coverup excuse for the systematic price gouging of essential microchips and computer components, sure.
Supports oligarchs This is true. Using non self-hosted ai even without paying for it does support oligarchs. Look at Grok for example. It’s a blatant fascist ideology propaganda machine. The other bots probably do the same thing but more subtle. I bet if you asked chatgpt about marijuana, transgender rights or atheism it wouldn’t be supportive of it. Yet if you asked chatgpt to run an online bot harassment campaign to tell transgender people and marijuana users how big of a piece of shit they are, there would be little pushback and it would say things of suspiciously higher quality than it was the other way around. They’d probably quietly and temporarily switch it over to the paid model for that one to make it generate higher quality hate speech without charging you for it. I’m not going to try it though.
Can’t be trusted, hallucinates and lies Sure. You can’t trust posts on the internet either. Sometimes I find it easier to do my research and differentiate between bad advice and not bad advice than it is to just start from nothing, but most of the seriously potentially useful stuff is usually banned from ai models anyway.
Overhyped & overpromised I guess. See “Puts people out of work”. 1000% worse for 0% of the cost is a no-brainer to an american corporation. To cut down on backlash they probably have to pretend replacing customer support roles with bots is “actually better”.
Can’t generate outside of its training data Some self hosted ai models are compatible with being connected to a websearch which means all the non-self hosted ones also have that. Then you have ai shifting through ai slop articles trying to guess which information is useful and which isn’t. The thought of making an ai sift through another ai bot’s poop is funny to me.
Is creating obscene surveillance state This is the objectively worst part about the advent of ai. Ai powered facial recognition allows law enforcement to have an easier time tracking down and harassing the types of people that the dominant ideology (the christian nationalists) want removed from society. The fascists established a full-on 1984 and we fuckin’ let them. For this one reason alone, I believe the world would be better of if ai were never a thing.
Used in weapons to kill Violence wasn’t invented until the first gun was invented after all. Not really. Maybe when the next american civil war happens, the good guys can have ai guided rockets or whatever too.
Made computer components expensive I already elaborated on this, but yes. Spamming ai datacenters all over the place just to prevent houses from being built there to keep costs of living high means they have to fill them with overpriced video cards. To give credit where credit is due, this isn’t all on ai. Chip companies are purposefully scaling back production so they can make more money while doing less work. Meanwhile, the government is massively cutting back on medicaid because they think we are all worthless losers who don’t work hard enough and deserve to either die in prison over unplayable medical debt or live through suffering because there is lots of suffering in the bible and republicans want to make America more like the bible. It is an unreasonably cruel, unreasonably unfair double standard.
Replaces human interaction I guess. Imagine getting swatted because you told your ai “friend” you were considering fleeing to a blue state and getting an abortion. Although religious fucknuts report their friends over this too.
Just annoying If you get on any ai and give it a prompt like: generate a sensationalist shitpost of a news article titled “Why you should sell all your possessions and work 120 hours a week at your job instead and never take vacation because you deserve to live like that”. The result is just an average modern news article.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Finally someone with a balanced view on AI. That was a rare wall of text. Worth the time though.