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I don't get this massive hate for AI. I am running it on my PC locally, have been using it as a toy to make some funny images, videos, voice clones to make my family and friends laugh. I might be naive but why the hate towards a tool that nobody forces you to use? It has its problems, sure, not to me it looks just like when painters when you present them with a camera.
Right here is the problem, because many companies like Adobe and Microsoft have made obtrusive AI that I would really like to not interact with, but don't have a choice at my job. I'd really like to not have to deal with AI chatbots when I need support, or find AI written articles when I'm looking for a how-to guide, but companies do not offer that as an option.
Capitalists foam at the mouth imagining how they can replace workers, when the reality is that they're creating worse products that are less profitable by not understanding the fundamental limitations of the technology. Hallucinations will always exist because they happen in the biology they're based on. The model generates bullshit that doesn't exist in the same way that our memory generates bullshit that didn't happen. It's filling in the blanks of what it thinks should go there; a system of educated guesswork that just tries to look convincing, not be correct.
In a lot of cases you are forced to use AI. Corporate "support" chatbots (not new, but still part of the cause for fatigue), AI responses in search engines that are shown without you asking for them and tend to just be flat out incorrect, Windows Recall that captures constant screenshots of everything you do without an option to uninstall it, etc.
And even if you're not directly prompting an AI to produce some output for you, the internet is currently flooded with AI-written articles, AI-written books, AI-produced music, AI-generated images, and more that tend to not be properly indicated as being from AI, making it really hard to find real information. This was already a problem with generic SEO stuffing, but AI has just made it worse, and made it easier for bad actors to pump out useless or dangerous content, while not really providing anything useful for good actors in the same context.
Pretty much all AI available right now is also trained on data that includes copyrighted work (explicitly or implicitly, this work shouldn't have been used without permission), which a lot of people are rightfully unhappy about. If you're just using that work for your own fun, that's fine, but it becomes an issue when you then start selling what the AI produces.
And even with all of that aside, it's just so goddamned annoying for "AI" to be shoved into literally everything now. AI CPUs, AI earbuds, AI mice, AI vibrators, it never ends. The marketing around AI is incredibly exhausting. I know that's not necessarily the fault of the technology, but it really doesn't help make people like it.
Not to mention the fact that the data and the resultant LLMs have shown biases against certain groups.
That's kind of the name of the game with computer models, unfortunately. They're reflections of the people making them and the data used to train them, which means they can't be fully objective. Maybe one day we'll figure out a way around that, but the current "AI" certainly isn't it.
A broader perspective than tech bro would be nice though.
For that purpose its fine and also completely unnecessary. Like have fun with it, it doesnt affect anything.
Its the stolen art, code, writing etc being misused for profit and regurgitated garbage art and misinformation that is the issue.