Post #2932834

2026-03-14 17:37 UTC

@sophie@floss.social You know what I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring here and agree with you and other folks like @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space and @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip. It's honestly exhausting and the amount of toxicity and vitriol I see about AI, and is making me seriously consider taking a break from Mastodon. (https://www.librepunk.club/@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space/116224004631865768) There are good aspects to AI. It is a tool. Folks are building new medical technology, tools to help navigate phone trees, etc. The real problem is not AI. the tool. It's the billionare tech bros and their companies that are exploiting every resource this planet has (water, artists, electricity, RAM, etc) to fuel their delusional projects. I worry not about the existence of AI, but instead about what happens when the VC money runs out.

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@will@www.librepunk.club 2026-03-14 17:41

@sophie@floss.social @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip I'm starting to believe in a future where AI can be an equitable tool that runs locally, on your personal computer. In the same way that Nextcloud and Jellyfin can be self-hosted "cloud" platforms.It's already happening. I'm doing it today on my old work laptop. These open source models are getting good enough for it. AI is just going to be another tool in my self-hosted toolbox. And that's the way it should be.

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@sophie@floss.social 2026-03-14 20:00

@will@www.librepunk.club @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip WRT to medical technology: We are mostly talking about generative AI like chatbots here. I don't think they should be used in the medical field if avoidable. Machine learning has been used for a long time in the field of medicine and research. That's something that can be properly trained for certain things. We don't need large language models for that.

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