#fuck_ai

Crush your corporations with a mild touch

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/54543108

maybe it happened

Magical, autonomous, all-powerful: Artificial intelligence fuels our dreams and nightmares. While tech companies promise us a better future, AI is already causing serious harm. Huge data centers and server farms are required for AI programs to function. These are paving over landscapes and consuming immense amounts of water and electricity — mostly from fossil fuels, and thus dirty energy sources. Millions of low-wage workers worldwide are busy feeding data to, and training, the algorithms for AI programs — often at the expense of their mental and emotional health. These workers, many of them young and living in the Global South, are exposed to all manner of harmful content to train AI models to detect such material.

Crossposted from lemmy.world/post/47968211 Tom Fishburne | marketoonist.com Transcript 1) A man sitting at his computer tells a woman A.I. TURNS THIS SINGLE BULLET POINT INTO A LONG EMAIL I CAN PRETEND I WROTE. 2) A woman sitting at her computer tells a man A.I. MAKES A SINGLE BULLET POINT OUT OF THIS LONG EMAIL I CAN PRETEND I READ.

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cross-posted from: kbin.earth/m/AntiAI@lemmy.blahaj.zone/t/2771990 As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

Fuck you Abbot and the horse you ride on.

From his latest article: One of my sources has come forward and brought me a story that will possibly burst the AI bubble. The reason they brought this to me is that I’ve shown — and will continue to show — that I actually give a shit about this industry and the people in it. If you’re wondering what the story is, know that it’s the information I’ve wanted for years, delivered as I have always wanted it, and I will treat it with the reverence it deserves. Imagine what the worst possible thing for me to get would be and you’re probably close. Link: www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/ I must say I’m pretty excited.

cross-posted from: piefed.ca/…/your-al-shopping-assistant-is-selling…

I work in the AI world and understand a lot of reasons to hate AI (like how every company is trying to ram it down people’s throats). However I am genuinely curious why the hate is so popular, and what arguments/opinions people have, and would like to hear the discussion. Even advertising, which is forced on everyone and disliked, doesn’t seem to get as vocal a response for hate. Why do you hate AI? Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong? After reading comments: I am thinking it’s simply: Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list. Be forced into everyone’s life and media constantly. Like a similar psychological phenomenon to when Nickelback was hated, but magnified by being more serious and grounded. I think that we should also be careful with where the hate is directed, since modelling learning of distributed systems at scale is very essential science and technology to be able to understand biology, physics, neuroscience, etc. The only way humanity currently scales new technologies unfortunately is through the capital machine, and the scale is a necessary component of this science.

So, we’re living in a time that might be remembered as one of the biggest bubbles in history. And that’s because in the next few weeks, your retirement account and your 401k is going to be buying shares in some of the biggest IPOs in human history, even though you might not want to. Okay, how’s that going to happen? It’s going to happen because the rules of the financial system were just rewritten to make sure that your money is going to be buying it automatically.

Yes, I’ll just trust the AI to help me fuck around with grid voltage levels. With google search results becoming so poor, I guess I need to look into kagi or duck-duck. Pain in my dick, motherless goatfucking, horsehit-happy asshole, corporate varmints gotta fuck it all up for more profit. I’m tired, yo.

Sorry for the long story, here. Yesterday, I fixed the washing machine. (Long story. Turned out to be the clutch, which is more of a pain to fix – requires more disassembly – than most other common fixes.) During the process, I jostled it and something metal fell out. A cotter pin sort of thing. My mother checked on me while I was working on it and I mentioned the piece that fell out. She went and started researching about it. (Not something I asked her to do. I would have done the research myself had she not done so. But it didn’t hurt anything to have her research. Or so I thought.) She comes back 10 minutes later and says “this thing is a super important piece that holds something together somewhere. Better figure out where it fell out of.” I looked her in the eye, knowing her penchant for reading Google AI overviews and asked “is that from the AI overview?” “No” came the answer. “Oh, some random forum or something?” “Yeah.” She leaves, I go back to the washing machine. (There was plenty I could still do even without an answer to the mystery of the random piece falling out.) 10 minutes after that she hollers from the other room. “Nevermind. It’s packing material that isn’t needed after the washing machine is installed.” She’d found Reddit post where someone had a similar experience with the same exact kind of part falling out of their washer of a very similar model. Mind you, my washing machine is decades old, so I’m a little surprised it would still have parts that were only for packing/shipping, but whatever. Not really implausible at all. Fast forward to today. She’s telling me how she told her friend about the mystery part, and she let slip that “when she checked the references” she found on Reddit that it was a useless piece contrary to what it said first. “References.” Random forum posts don’t have “references.” Google’s AI overview pretends it can give you “references” telling you where it got the “knowledge” it used to generate an answer. (But it’s bad about misinterpreting references, and I have to imagine when it provides references, those are complete guesses. Everything I’ve heard is that “knowing” where it got the information that went into whatever answer it generated just isn’t how LLMs work.) I brought up that she’d told me the first thing she saw that said it was super important wasn’t an AI overview. And she admitted it had been. And, honestly, I find it hard to describe how absolutely livid I am about it. I’ve asked her many times not to parrot AI overviews to me. (Whatever she wants to put in her brain is no business of mine, but I don’t want her polluting my brain with that bullshit.) She regularly ignores my wishes and continues to read me AI overviews. It pisses me off, but I’ve learned to swallow it. But I can’t express just how huge a betrayal it feels like to be told AI bullshit and then lied to about whether it was AI bullshit. I’m a lot calmer about it than I was at first, but an hour ago, I was shaking. I was very calm with her about it, though I’m sure my face was super red. I asked her pointedly not to lie to me about where she gets her information, but I don’t expect any change in her behavior moving forward. 😐

Cross posted from infosec.pub/post/47640081 How accurate does an AI system need to be?