• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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      I get the spirit, but it’s capitalism that accelerates climate change. LLMs are just the new blockchain scapegoat.

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        You’re both right. Capitalism accelerates climate change but so does the outrageous electricity requirements of LLMs.

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          Many human activities cause climate change. LLMs are a relatively new one, and a disproportionate energy user, so it’s fair enough to shout about it and try to minimise adoption. Things that are already entrenched like consumer culture or aviation will be harder and slower to undo.

          Also, whether it’s right or not that capitalism is largely to blame, if you take that to mean that the only useful action against climate change is fighting against capitalism, or let yourself feel like you’ve ‘done your part’ by having anticapitalist opinions, I think that’s counterproductive.

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          If it weren’t for Capitalism, those LLMs would have been designed with a lower climate impact from the get-go. But since that hurts the shareholders bottom line, they aren’t.

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      Don’t forget the damage to the creative industries

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    People with no clue about AI are exactly why a dumb-as-a-brick LLM could very well end up destroying the world.

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      No, that scenario comes from AI’s use in eliminating opponents of fascism

      It’s pretty funny that while everyone is whining about artist rights and making a huge fucking deal about delusional people who think they’ve ‘birthed’ the first self aware AI, Palantir is using our internet histories to compile a list of dissidents to target

      Screenshotting for my eventual ban.

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    The thing is, AI doesn’t need to take over the world if the BiG tHiNkErS are so eager to replace humans regardless of its merit.

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      The thing is, if they’re wrong, their businesses will fail, and anyone who didn’t jump on the hype train and didn’t piss revenue away should have better financials

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    It’s not the “AI” that I’m worried about destroying the world. It’s the tech Bros and CEOs who are trying to force it on us all I’m worried about. Cuz I don’t trust them to think things through or think ahead.

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    not worried about AI taking over the world.

    I’m worried that corporate interests are using AI as a mechanism to circumvent our already weak control of the world and enslaving us only for AI to be used inappropriately in ways that further the divide between the wealthy and poor.

    I’m worried that these corporate interests are doing irreversible damage to the environment by consuming energy and resources that could be better spent on solving real problems like homelessness, joblessness, healthcare, and hunger.

    I’m worried that my kids will grow up in a world where technology has become so toxic to intelligence that they’re living in a mashup of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984.

    AI couldn’t find its way out of a wet paper sack. The maliciously negligent rich assholes that are forcing us to use AI when it’s a half-baked pyramid scheme filled with crypto-bros and fascist supporting scumbags – those guys I’m concerned about.

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    I’ve never really liked this meme. I quite dislike AI, but just because your NN sucks doesn’t mean NNs or AI in general is fundamentally poor.

    I often write very poorly performing programs due to mistakes, lack of knowledge, or just general incompetence. That doesn’t mean all my programs perform poorly. It certainly doesn’t mean all your programs perform poorly.

    “AI” sucks for a lot of reasons, but so does this image.

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    I don’t think it will take over. I think idiots will deploy ai everywhere and that will create systems that are fundamentally inhumane.

    I mean more surveillance, more arbitrary “decisions” by opaque systems. Basically Oppression by lack of oversight and control.