Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/47504963

TranscriptTitle text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

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[–] 18 points 5 months ago

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They're like vogons.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Gonna seem real silly when the AI extinction bubble pops and all the survivors have to live locally on GPUs like they should have always been. Big fucking waste of everything.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    But it is the future! A future filled with contaminated drinking water, and exponentially increasing heat.

    We all thought it was going to go down with us fighting some Terminator robots or some shit, but... naw they're just poisoning and cooking us while we're distracted by our 9-5s.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    You're telling me that a bunch of sociopathic nerds have trouble with consent? Color me shocked.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    In a very real sense, there is much to undo. They've already constructed many data centers with on site natural gas power generation with zero license, regulation, or oversight one of which produces enough energy to power something like 75% of Texas. Still though, it is not inevitable!

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    Nonsense

    • Internet is here, there is no going back
    • Quantum Physics are here, there is no going back
    • Mobile Phones are here, there is no going back
    • Electricity is here, there is no going back

    Following the logic of the meme:

    AI is here and cannot be regulated and limited, like also not big corps, billonairs, corrupt politicians.......

    Technology cannot be uninvented, it cannot be blamed for the evil, self-interested and stupid use without law and rules that is given to them, bad habits, bad laws, and abuse isn't an valid simil to AI, but a human one.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Like how leaded gasoline, CFCs, and ActiveX cannot be uninvented and are still found everywhere? Regulation absolutely can restrict a technically society doesn't want around, as can a move to alternative solutions.

    And that doesn't mean it disappears entirely. Avgas is still leaded and CFCs are still being used in specific contexts like Teflon manufacturing. But they're no longer everywhere. ActiveX is pretty much dead, though.

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

    The problem with the comic is that the other 3 have specific definitions and "AI" is entirely too vague

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It's always too vague, there are thousends of AI apps and services, specialized in dozends of way different tasks. also LLM isn't always a negative description, everyLLM is needed to permit an easy interaction with humans. As said, it depends for what and how we use it and who has made it and for what with which intentions. I use an AI search assistant (Andisearch) from a small startup of 2 devs, which was the first AI search ever, several years ago with a different approach as any other and almost 0 hallucinations. It does exactly for what it was made for, not pretending more, Summarizing contrasted with several sources, 100% privat and anonymous, no logs, no cookies, random proxy and sandboxed results. Instead of inventing results when it don't find an answer, it offers an traditional websearch without AI.

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  • [+] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Only works with things that have proven efficacy. Like the car replacing the horse or electricity replacing various manual labour tasks, like doing laundry.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    Point 1 isn't that ludacris if we could outlaw the training of new models. The effort of training them is the largest part.

    GPT4ALL can run models easily, privately and locally on your computer - because the training is done, it's past tense. All you're doing when you ask it something locally/offline is remixing it.

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

    How would you make better models then? Like force everyone to team up so there's "only" one datacenter? Waiting for techbto catch up?

    I'm genuinely curious as I don't think any of the big companies are going to stop just like that.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Hence "if we could outlaw the training of new models" - but I suppose if you love new models that much, you could limit their training to educational institutions who have to propose new models via an ethics boards before training them - much like is done with medical experimentation.

    P.S hahaha I'm getting down votes for saying to outlaw the training of new models, you're getting upvotes for saying "but how will I get new models?". What sub even is this?

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

    You were getting flak for putting words in my mouth and acting like an edgy teenager.

    I don't LOVE New models so much!!

    And if you think the world spins around your jurisdiction I can't do anything for you.

    The newer better models will be built, by your country or some other (China or even Europe), so how to do it the best way was my question.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Dumb ass you're on my thread, you're replying to my comment (the downvoted one)... So no I've not got any flak for putting words in your mouth...

    YOU asked about "how will we get new models!!" That was your concern, not me putting words in your mouth ...your exact words were:

    "How would you make better models then?"

    Another slop brained AI idiot, worried about the wrong things in life.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    That requires international solidarity. Else they'd just pay off some poor government official in another country to build the DCs there instead

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Yes technically "but a corrupt government just wouldn't do it" can knock down all suggestions and is the ultimate argument for reenforcing total apathy... If that's your aim.

    Also, don't bother responding, because an even more corrupt government would just censor free speech online, so no point you saying anything back. See it's the ultimate apathy.

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