Idk man curses are magic and ai has been a curse on our existance since gpt3 launched
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It wasn’t magic to begin with.
femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Has it? I mean, all this “AI” news is pretty annoying, but how has it impacted our daily lives? ChatGPT has only made mine better.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Most search engines are practically unusable due to the massive amount of garbage AI generated sites that take up the search results while having just platantly false information.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I haven’t used a search engine since I started using ChatGPT. It does all the heavy lifting for me.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m pretty sure the number of people that have lost their jobs over this shitty text generator has surpassed a million.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
But that has nothing to do with ChatGPT. It’s what some people were blaming on all of the layoffs when it came out. That would have happened regardless. The news just loves a clickable headline.
Most of these companies will start rehiring again. They just did it to trim the fat, cut the high earners, and get people back in at a lower rate because they’re desperate for work.
Tale as old as time.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
If we’re talking only about LLMs, then probably the biggest issues caused are threats to support line jobs, the enshittification of said help lines, blatant misinformation spread via those chat bots, and a variety of niche problems.
If we’re spreading out to mean AI mor generally, we could talk about how facial recognition has now gotten good enough that it’s being used to identify and catalogue pretty much anyone that passes a FR-equipped security system. Israel has actually been picking civilian targets via AI. We could also talk about “self driving” cars and the compeletely avoidable deaths they’ve caused. We could talk about how most convolution network AIs that identify graphic imagery and other horrific visuals use massive sweat shops to sort said graphic images for pennies. We could also talk about how mimicry AI has now been used to create both endless revenge porn of unwilling victims, and also faked the voice of others to try to scam them or make them not vote. There’s plenty of damage AI as a whole has done, even if LLMs are the most minimal of all of them.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
A lot of what you’ve mentioned has existed for decades in some fashion. It’s just code.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If we’re spreading out to mean AI mor generally, we could talk about how facial recognition has now gotten good enough that it’s being used to identify and catalogue pretty much anyone that passes a FR-equipped security system.
I don’t think that this is “AI more generally” as the public (and the current article) understands it. You’re lumping together any slightly self corrective algorithm under the AI umbrella. This might be technically correct, but it’s just operations, it’s not indicative of the current hype.
We could also talk about “self driving” cars and the compeletely avoidable deaths they’ve caused.
The limiting factor for self driving cars is hardware, not software. There is no commercially viable video technology available to allow taking the self driving technology out of the lab and into the consumer space. Unless you’re talking about Tesla-like systems which, of course, are neither a “self-driving” system nor consumer ready.
We could also talk about how mimicry AI has now been used to create both endless revenge porn of unwilling victims, and also faked the voice of others to try to scam them or make them not vote
This is not AI. The technology behind the voice or image manipulation has existed for some time and has been used for fake porn and for fake voice calls for a long while. We’re only discussing about it now because they can generate traffic if they’re tied to a hype like AI. Very few people would read a story about a student sticking faces of his colleagues over naked bodies, but say the student used AI and suddenly everyone wants to find out what happened. It’s even worse: headlines are discussing the reaction of X celebrity to porn fakes in the context of AI even though porn sites have been having a fake porn section ever since the late 90s and they’re available to anyone with the mental capacity to click “I’m over 18”. Maybe you’re too young to remember, but google wasn’t always censoring search results. Before 2010-ish, fakes like these would routinely appear in google searches of a celebrity’s name. I’m not really sure why AI makes this any different
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I saw through chat GPT’s gimmic right away.
Having said that, image generation to me was and still is magic. Not because I don’t understand it, but because I saw it as a way to get people with imagination but no skill to actually make art.
Having said that, the reality and how it is used is different.
Dimantina@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I love it for asset creation and texture for games. As a programmer with 0 artistic skill it has been a god send to be able to do far higher quality UI while not bogging down my prototyping time.
But for like truely unique art… It’s kind of a mess. Like try to get an AI to make a dwarf warrior with a Lance riding on the shoulders of an anthropomorphic cat person, who is dressed in monk robes.
AI struggles so hard with unique scenes like that… For now…
jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it’s amazing and terrible at the same time. It clearly produces some amazing looking things, but I’ve never been able to get it to create what I want.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It was entirely magic and very little verified reality.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
"Magic” is just technology that’s
sufficiently advancedhasn’t yet been commercially exploited.