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GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding (grapheneos.social)

submitted 5 hours ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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GrapheneOS is currently defending its use of AI coding tools on Mastodon against complaints by various accounts claiming to be users.

We do not understand where you're coming from or why you're so incredibly angry with us. It's not justified and does not make sense.

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

"Ai" isn't inherently evil. It's just a tool. An incredibly interesting and marvelous tool, in theory.

What we make of it and how we use it matters. Noone needs stupid chatbots. People should only be allowed to use them after graduating an exam of what they actually are and how they work. In the current state they're 90% bullshit and harmful.

But LLMs surely have great and reasonable applications. People often fear what they don't really understand. And LLMs really are a topic that often even "techies" don't get, so why should a layman.

Yes, they are environmental Desasters. But try to substract all the trillions of silly nonsensical queries millions of people hammer into chatbots, that once were simple search-engine - queries. And it's not THAT bad anymore.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 17 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

"AI is just a tool" - #1 thing said by tools.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 58 seconds ago

"AI is just a tool" - #1 thing said by tools.

#1 thing said by arrogant turds with no clue.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 13 points 3 hours ago

Machine guns are tools. As are jets and bombs and missiles.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm just going to quote myself, as I'm satisfied enough with the answer I wrote to another reply.

As it exists, as it was created, "AI" is evil. It consumes resources we can't afford to waste and is currently supercharging our pollution indexes and creating what may be a catastrophic collapse of already very fragile and unbalanced social and economic realities. And because we are already into the sunken cost falacy fase, it will never be rewritten or rebuilt. Hopefully, it will collapse in such horrifying way it will create a cautionary tale, but we are not so lucky, so what we are left with is picking up the bits after it. This kind of system had to be developed inside laboratories, colleges, universities, research centers, to aid into very niche and specific fields of research, not made to be a mass consumption comodity as it is. But it was, unfortunately, not done that way.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 1 hour ago

You are confusing capitalism and ai. AI is just a tool. Capitalist will use any tool it can to hurt labor. This is currently born out by history recent and ancient. The luddites attacked the looms not because they were evil. But because the bourgeoisie were using them to exclude and attack labor.