Post #303104
2026-02-16 05:09 UTC
Replies (26)
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@mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2026-02-16 05:48
I hate AI because it's been built of the forced exploitation of untold millions of artists and creative laborers, without even so much as consent, let alone compensation...
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@ejs@piefed.social 2026-02-16 05:56
Most arguments people make against AI are in my opinion actually arguments against capitalism. Honestly, I agree with all of them, too. Ecological impact? A result of the extractive logic of capitalism. Stagnant wages, unemployment, and economic dismay for regular working people? Gains from AI being extracted by the wealthy elite. The fear shouldn’t be in the technology itself, but in the system that puts profit at all costs over people. Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor). Enshittification, AI overview being shoved down all our throats? Tactics used to maximize profits tricking us into believing AI products are useful.
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@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2026-02-17 03:02
I hate AI because it's a waste of finite resources. I hate it because it's supported by a system of corruption and greed that is destroying the economy. I hate it because all major AI vendors have supported or abetted criminals in circumventing democracy worldwide. I hate it because it *isn't* AI, it's a LLM.
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@neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-16 07:09
Por que no los dos?
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@Cuboos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-16 23:11
I don't hate AI, in fact i think it could be very useful. But i can't help but notice that it's critics are mostly correct and it's proponents are a bunch of fucking morons.
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@Xyphius@lemmy.ca 2026-02-16 22:59
I hate "A.I." because it's not A.I. it's an if statement stapled to a dictionary. Also because I can't write the short name of Albert without people thinking I'm talking about A.I.
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@inari@piefed.zip 2026-02-16 05:23
I'm neutral-positive toward local AI, not so much toward Clawd-style agents impersonating humans on the web
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@bibbasa@piefed.social 2026-02-16 05:55
i was a vocal synth nerd before i was a fedi/foss nerd. we've been doing ai since before the ai bubble, and i think vocal synths are a good example of ethical ai. vocal synths are still a creative tool where you compose the music, lyrics and expression yourself, but the ai engine makes the voice more realistic sounding. you purchase "voice banks" which are effectively training data for a single voice and this voice bank comes from a "voice provider" who is a paid singer that will record samples for the vocal synth engine. a lot of voice providers request to have the voice bank "characterized" to sound different from themselves, and the vocal synth company will do so. compare KAF to KAFU CEVIO. this is a process based entirely on **consent**, something openai and the rest of them lack, they just send out an army of scrapers to take anything and everything they can get their hands on, consent be damned. actually speaking of KAF, i was excited because KAFU was coming to synth v, since i don't have CEVIO (and don't speak japanese). but unfortunately, KAFU SV was cancelled because the synth v ai engine made her sound too much like herself, and most likely they couldn't modify the voice bank to sound differently enough and they cancelled it. at least, that's the prevailing theory.
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@technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-16 16:27
There is no "AI". That deception is the main ingredient in the snake oil.
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@tranzystorek_io@beehaw.org 2026-02-16 13:02
why not both B)
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@lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-16 06:22
>please let me know if there's a more appropriate one. !fuck_ai@lemmy.world maybe
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@SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2026-02-16 22:25
As far as I am concerned I am going to do the opposite of anything Sam Altman says. He is the ultimate snake oil salesman. He sold this trash to Microsoft, which I guess these days is pretty on brand.
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@maplesaga@lemmy.world 2026-02-17 04:23
I'm excited because I think AI will break down and erode proprietary file formats, for ultimate portability between different software providers. That for me is a game changer in how software is used, and opens up real competition and innovation. Thats not anything as grand as the AGI these founders keep vaporwaring, but I think it will still be substantial.
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@Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 2026-02-25 15:06
I used Claude to code something. The thing is, it happilly creates the code, which looks quite professionally, and is soooo positive about itself. Then you try to run it, which ofcourse doesn't work. Next you feed it the error messages and it very very happilly fixes those bugs, all while being very fond of itself. After a few rounds of that, the code actually runs and does something. Now I can get that it doesn't work from the first try, ours won't be 100% correct either, but the mistakes it makes tend to be because it mixes information of different versions of libraries. And why is the damn thing so fond of itself? Everything it does it find "perfect".
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@miridius@lemmy.world 2026-04-07 10:37
I like AI
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@MITM0@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 10:44
In other words automation
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@Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-20 23:06
I hate AI because I want to be able to afford RAM and storage again
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@rain_worl@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 23:18
neural networks ("ai") are really cool, and if i get around to messing around with one it probably would be fun. the problem is not the neural network itself, but every. single. thing. other than it
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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-02-17 00:24
i hate it because i can still reliably tell LLMs apart from humans
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@8andage@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-16 10:23
Even llms are useful for coding, if you keep it in its auto complete lane instead of expecting it to think for you Just don't pay a capitalist for it, a tiny, power efficient model that runs on your own pc is more than enough
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@zd9@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 17:59
LLMs are part of AI, so I think you're maybe confused. You can say anything is just fancy anything, that doesn't really hold any weight. You are familiar with autocomplete, so you try to contextualize LLMs in your narrow understanding of this tech. That's fine, but you should actually read up because the whole field is really neat.
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@technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-16 16:28
> Actual AI *doesn't exist* FTFY.
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@CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 22:20
> Unlike LLM which is just fancy autocomplete. You might keep hearing people say this, but that doesn't make it true (and it isn't true).
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@AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2026-02-16 18:35
I think what people are struggling to articulate is that, the way AI gets thrown around now, it's basically being used as a replacement for the word "algorithm". It's obfuscating the truth that this is all (relatively) comprehensible mathematics. Even the black box stuff. Just because the programmer doesn't know each step the end program takes, doesn't mean they don't know the principals behind how it was made, or didn't make deliberate choices to shape the outcome. There's some very neat mathematics, yes, and an utterly staggering amount of data and hardware. But at the end of the day its still just an (large) algorithm. Calling it AI is dubious at best, and con-artistry at worst.
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@Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2026-02-17 07:17
That kind of depends how you define autonomy. Whichever way, I'm not sure I get how "virtual" is a better descriptor for implying a lack of it than "artificial" is. Also by "we don’t actually know how it works" do you mean that we can't explain why a particular "decision" was made by an AI, or do you mean that we don't know how AI works in general? If it's the first that's generally true, if it's the second I disagree (we know a lot, but still have a lot to learn).
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@ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-20 12:09
Most people who talk about ai know nothing about it... Exactly like cryptocurrency... In fact, the ai boom is identical to the NFT boom... NFT's are extremely useful, for stuff like a car deed... Not for pictures of monkeys