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[–] 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, absolutely. However, I also recognize that we live in an era where it's impossible to have completely ethical consumption, and I suspect many of those most vocal against any AI use are generally being more selective towards this one topic. I personally don't begrudge the (disclosed) use of the tech for applications where it is genuinely the best option available. The issues around training data and environmental concerns (even ignoring the effects of the economic bubble) are real and valid.

For the record, I do not use AI or support AI use, but I recognize that things are shifting and it will likely become a permanent tool. Hopefully the ethical issues will be ironed out before it's too entrenched. I suspect once regulation is in place and the bubble pops, what survives will be much more sane.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    I personally believe it is impossible to have no ethical issues with Ai. Despite this fact, I experiment with local Ai chat tools. I used it when coding offline, to lookup ask some questions I would have asked a real user in example code snippets if it finds any issues I couldn't see. Or how something is achieved usually, when I'm new to some stuff. That's basically the extend of my usage in projects so far. Even if I wanted to slop more, I couldn't, because my hardware is weak for this task (still don't want to).

    I like it for extracting text from images and translate it, generally speaking translation with Ai is much better, I play games where I know Ai was used to create it. As you see, I'm not completely against it.

    But this is me personally, and I still have these ethical thoughts and it feels dirty.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Agree. I have been tinkering with local solutions, but nothing quite fits my use case. I have messed around with the latest DeepSeek model, and it seems quite powerful. Lower training cost and energy footprint is a plus, but still is fed by the same scraped content. I suspect the ability to write syntactically correct code and expand pseudocode will be the most useful feature of AI that persists post-bubble.

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