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Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 25 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I’ll worry about ‘AI’ when something that can legitimately be mistaken as intelligence is demonstrated.

In the meantime, these explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincters need to be exclusively opt-in, and not forced on anyone who hasn’t explicitly consented to a lobotomy.

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

    Issue is, they're already trying to use it for things it shouldn't be used for...

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

    Why wait? What is with people trying to act so slick and cool?

    Yes, it sucks, but it’s a) being used as if it’s intelligent, which is arguably much worse, and b) going to eventually get to a point where it’s at least not terrible(at its job, specifically, as it’s pretty bad for a lot of things).

    For a personal reason, I’m worried about it because it’s very likely filtering my CV based on a work gap that’s only getting worse because my CV is getting filtered. It’s not intelligent, but HR companies and departments are using it for that anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    It's already not bad for certain specific, niche applications. Check out PlantNet. It's awesome. You can take a picture of a plant, and it'll identify it for you. No micro-transactions; you don't even have to log in. It just works.

    Obviously, that isn't one of the applications of Machine Learning that people have a problem with. It's the LLMs filtering out your resume or spying on you or producing slop.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, this article is promoting the doomsday AI myth which is the narrative that these companies want us to go with, because it makes their products seem powerful. In reality, people are already turning against this technology en masse

    not because they're afraid it'll turn into Skynet, but because it sucks shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Like any other toxic ingredient, anything made with even an iota of AI-generated content in it should be flagged, and it should be mandatory for sites to provide an easily user-accessible way to filter that horseshit out.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Data is often called the new oil, but I’d argue it more closely resembles uranium.

    LLM’s are like asbestos, a carcinogen later generations will need to carefully remove from the environment they’ve inherited.

    What is currently labelled as slop will more accurately be treated like irradiated sludge.

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