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[–] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

People don't like that generative AI is based on stolen content. People don't like that it's being forced into everything. People don't like that it isn't even good at most of the things it tries to do. People definitely hate it's attempts at 'music' and 'art.' People don't like it's immense energy costs. People don't like that it might render them, and everyone else, unemployed. People don't like that they're owned by oligarchs.

Oligarchs invested trillions in the hope of firing us all and no longer paying us wages. You need to get some class consciousness.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    People don’t like that generative AI is based on stolen content.

    Long before AI, people on the Internet were fairly likely to dislike copyright and correctly insist that copying is not theft.

    How the times have changed.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Been pirating books for a while. And in doing so, found a few authors I really like, so I ended up preordering some of their books and even recommending them to friends. AI doesn't ever preorder their books, and will probably not recommend them to random people without being paid to advertise by the author. Which is why the argument of, "I pirate, so what's the difference if AI does it?" kinda falls flat in my mind.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    This is what frustrates me, the lack of any nuance whatsoever. I run local models, and am passionately against oligarchy. I don’t support them in the least.

    My inner child still can’t get over how freakin cool AI actually is, at the technical level. And all anyone hears when I say how amazing the actual tech is, they tune me out and talk about whatever it is they’re trying to talk about.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    And who made your local models?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    That's the rub. Local models have some positives, but overall the source for them is a negative. And the worst thing is, we can't fix that now. We can't undo what's been done, we can't start over with new data that is fair, and we can't seem to get AI out of where it's been jammed in.

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