Just something that has bothered me for a long time. I mean, I know that the YouTube algorithm has been shit even before the inclusion of AI, but now that they apparently use it, let’s be honest: our feeds are now more crammed full of shit than a sewer.
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I think there are a few key positions on AI I’ve seen online.
The rabidly for AI think it’s an ends justify any means wundermachine that can solve any problem with enough compute. Even if I don’t agree, I understand these people, they’ll swim in any water they smell profit.
The mildly annoyed see that all these companies treat their users as the product and are happy to test and train the next attention grabber in anything and everything they’ve been using for free for 10 years.
The practical see that it’s not sustainable for the planet to continue maximum compute manufacturing and the power to run it. The Industrial Revolution has already leveraged much of the planets health for human advancement, we can’t continue this practice forever without dire consequences.
Which leaves the rabidly against AI. Some are luddites against the plow taking farmers jobs. Some go on about how AI pictures have no soul until they’re foaming at the mouth. The only common thread I’ve seen with them is that they are angry about something, and they will not be reasoned with until you figure out for them what they are angry about.
The recommended videos algorithm uses what it knows about you to arbitrarily pick out some videos you might click on. The megacorp picks which algorithm is used based on one thing: audience retention. They are the puppet masters, “the AI” has no sentience or responsibility, it is a plinko board that trys to hit the right bucket at the bottom. Decide what you are angry at, the people making the decisions or the sorting machine they built. Here’s a hint: If you get a mob together and you smash the sorting machine, the exact same people will still be making the decisions that matter.
I admit I probably am biased but that’s just coz AI fucked my life. I do try to be balanced on the issue as much as I can, though
Hence, why my community logo looks like this 👇
I don’t know your story, and I’m not trying to rag on you dude. But did AI fuck your life or did the person making the decisions that matter?
Both. The thing about AI freely distributed is: it’s the responsibility of the user to choose to use it, but let’s be honest; there’s all kinds of luring/advertising to make people use it. Not to mention the fact that had AI delightfully never existed, that choice would never have to be made in the first place.
I fully get you’re not trying to rag on me and I get what you’re saying, but what corporations are doing to people (the allure of AI) is equally sickening