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What is with the pro-AI posts lately?
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AI (LLMs) is/are a fantastic tool.
But that's what it is, a tool that can make some tasks easier.
It's not world-changing like some tech bros and CEOs think it is because they don't actually understand the technology.
It's also not the apocalypse or The Matrix or Skynet coming to end civilization. It's just a tool.
After the AI bubble bursts, AI will still be there, as a tool for humans to use.
I think it's possible that some of the people you see on Lemmy may have started using AI a little more in their lives and see it for what it is.
You know what's crazy is that everyone has begun rebranding things that existed before AI as AI.
The algorithm summary of a common question in Google results? Now it's AI.
Trello's automation tasks moving items marked as "Done" to archive? Now it's AI✨
It's idiotic lol
Marketing BS. The bad part is all the C-Suites falling for it.
Google at some point also was a great tool. Wikipedia also joins the rankings. LLM chatbots are great but certainly not the primary source of information.
What annoys me is that people began to use them to not to do simple things like writing their own posts about their own things. They began to generate content instead of making it. It is obvious that anything what takes time to be produced, will most certainly be automated once tools are given. But this annoys the hell out of me.
Seeing posts, comments, content generated by LLM, I feel that I am being robbed of artistry, curiosity, interactions with real people. I can automate chats with my family, friends, colleagues, children. But that wont be me. That will be perfect grammar sentence generator, not me - real, tons of mistakes, typos, mostly renting about everything, passionate, bored, funny, witty, dull me.
It saddens me that LLMs are exedcuting (almost?) final blow to a society that is sustaining social media terminal damage.
Despite me generally agreeing with OP's point, I'll give you that.
One of my biggest pet peeves with AI recently is how I've noticed indie game devs on itch.io become addicted to it. Everytime I think I've found a cool new game with a unique premise or game mechanic... the summary is AI slop. And if I give them the benefit of the doubt of just being too lazy to write their own summary... surprise, surprise. Every line of dialogue or plot in the game is cringe-worthy AI text and I uninstall it after about ~5 minutes in lol
So pretty much any dev I catch with an AI summary now is an insta-block on ublock filters and the rest of their catalogue won't see the light of day.
It's so goddamn frustrating that the only genre I can pretty much browse by anymore is No AI. It's slowly getting to the point where I don't even bother engaging with anything released within the last 3 years, so I won't even bother checking out new stuff on the front page anymore. This is how you slowly kill a creative community.
Unfortunately we will always have problems explaining to people how to use the right tool for the right job.
The old "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" saying still applies.
Using LLMs to automate your social media is dumb as shit and I don't understand why people are doing that. It is actively destroying social media. Which may be the natural end-state of a social media platform. Isn't that why most of us are on Lemmy right now? Because of the state of Reddit and Xitter?
Also, generative AI making art and music and literature is dumb as shit too. Why would you make an AI that does the fun stuff that humans actually want to do? I can't wait to have AI finish playing BioShock for me...
That is probably the greatest irritation I have with my wife right now. I don't wanna start fights over it, but I also don't make a secret of my disdain that she uses LLMs for her work. I get it, she has to, because her business requires churning out a lot of text quickly to stay competitive and I want her to succeed, but I hate what the internet has come to and I hate that she participates in that race to the bottom.
That is either a wonderful coincidence or a clever joke, but I love it either way.
To be fair, given the power consumption it requires, it definitely leans towards civilization ending.
We also have "the Internet" slurping up massive amounts of energy.
Current Global Electricity Breakdown:
The Internet is also a tool that humanity uses. Should we shut that down too? (I would argue yes considering how the "Information Superhighway" somehow made the average person dumber, but that's a different discussion.)
Except the Internet is actually useful. AI has not shown that it deserves to use that insane amount of energy. It's actually insane that you think AI isn't an issue when it's using 1/3rd as much energy as the ENTIRE INTERNET
LLMs are neat, and useful for some things - but as with practically everything in modern society, capitalism is ruining it.
So, the problem with tools is that their existence still affects the systems they're a part of.
For instance, war between the US and Russia is much more dangerous now (yes, it used to be dangerous before as well) because now we have nuclear bombs. We did a whole cold war thing about it. Nuclear bombs change the world even when they're not being used.
Similarly, meth is just a tool. It is entirely possible to smoke meth, not become addicted, have a great time, vacuum your entire house I guess, come down, chill, and move on with the rest of your life. But, that's not what we would say meth's effect on society is, is it?
I am so happy that you are capable of using AI without becoming a psychopath. I am concerned about the psychopaths.