Post #2094897

2026-05-06 13:08 UTC

@dalias @lazza @Vivaldi okay - bit harsh, I do not _like_ the fact that AI technology exists in the form that it is today, yknow, i'm a software developer who got laid off and is actively struggling to find work, in large part due to proliferation of LLM code generation tools - so even I was a lot more receptive to AI technology, I'd still think it'd be hard to be a "slop apologist", but my view is that the cat is out of the bag. This technology _WILL_ continue to be developed, and yes, we SHOULD fight those who seek to do the "permanent underclass" bullshit, I think that's a no brainer, and I don't disagree that given the pushback we are seeing a welcome pull away from AI technologies, I think it is nothing more than wishful thinking to expect that we will see a complete wipeout of LLM usage

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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-05-06 13:11

@tay @lazza @Vivaldi Surely there will be some people who use it. We can't eliminate them. But there is absolutely no place for it in our browsers, in software we use, etc. much less giving websites we visit backdoors to our data and interactions via some "AI API". Once the bubble finishes imploding (it's well along the way already), there will not be new gigantic models. The astronomical costs don't justify it. They don't even justify continuing to offer the existing ones at affordable prices. The existing public models you can run client-side will of course still exist but will be increastingly outdated. This will not be a complete wipe-out, but it will be close.

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@Teratogenese@mamot.fr 2026-05-06 13:13

@tay @dalias @lazza @Vivaldi Asbestos was also "the cat out of the bag". Which country with proper regulations still allows asbestos in products ?

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@rootwyrm@weird.autos 2026-05-06 13:14

@tay @dalias @lazza @Vivaldi just no. This is a dead-end technology with no future. We have known this for over a decade. It used to be called 'expert systems' and similar. Go look up IBM Watson. And that was done by far smarter people, manually training a targeted dataset with people who were experts in the field. It is not a technology. It is a waste of resources to do a bad implementation of a chatbot from the 1970's so a bunch of sociopathic techbros can siphon money for themselves.

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