@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to
Post #3265415
2026-05-29 16:56 UTC
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@leadore@sunny.garden 2026-05-29 20:42
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to Sorry, it's too late to make that argument now. Techbros have successfully co-opted the term "AI" to be equivalent to their LLMs and generative text/image slop. What you're talking about--the pre-slop machine-learning algorithms that are actually useful for finding drugs, discovering comets, analyzing medical images for cancer, etc. etc. is what "AI" used to refer to, but no more. (and TBF it was incorrect even for that kind of tech). Billionaires took the name for marketing purposes, to hype up their slop machines.. Kind of like how fascists co-opted the swastika, the OK sign, putting parentheses around someone's name in text chat to mean giving them a hug, the numbers 88 and 1488, all were appropriated. We can't use them for their original meanings any more because the meanings have changed. When people say they're anti-AI they are referring to the new meaning: slop. It says nothing about how they feel about the technology that AI used to mean. We'll have to come up with a new name for that. @keengrasp@layer8.space
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@paul@notnull.space 2026-05-29 21:38
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @keengrasp@layer8.space this is why AI is such a terrible thing to describe it. Could an LLM create a new cancer drug? No. Could machine learning be used to study data and extrapolate results that can be used develop new cancer fighting drugs? Yes, it probably has been for some time now.
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@PapyrusBrigade@cosocial.ca 2026-05-29 22:53
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to That's a bit like saying chattel slavery was worth it because it gave rise to the spreadsheet.
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@wvi@witter.cz 2026-06-11 06:38
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @keengrasp@layer8.space Do I understand correctly that stealing from everyone, making money from it and then helping to come up with a drug that helps kinda deletes all the issues related to stealing? I feel like Nazi Germany was not bad actually they discovered many things in concentration camps that later helped with drugs or otherwise.