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[–] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

How people dare not like the automatic bullshit machine pushed down their troat...

Seriously, genrative AI acomplishment are :

  • Making mass spam easier
  • Burning the planet
  • Making people lose their job and not even being a decent solution
  • Make all search engine and information sources worse
  • Creating an economic bubble that will fuckup the economy even harder
  • Easing mass surveillance and weakening privacy everywhere
[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

One could have said many of the same thigs about a lot of new technologies.

The Internet, Nuclear, Rockets, Airplanes etc.

Any new disruptive technology comes with drawbacks and can be used for evil.

But that doesn't mean it's all bad, or that it doesn't have its uses.

[–] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Give me one real world use that is worth the downside.

As dev I can already tell you it's not coding or around code. Project get spamed with low quality nonsensical bug repport, ai generated code rarely work and doesn't integrate well ( on top on pushing all the work on the reviewer wich is already the hardest part of coding ) and ai written documentation is ridled with errors and is not legible.

And even if ai was remotly good at something it still the equivalent of a microwave trying to replace the entire restaurant kitchen.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I can run a small LLM locally which I can talk to using voice to turn certain lights on and off, set reminders for me, play music etc.

There are MANY examples of LLM's being useful, it has its drawbacks just like any big technology, but saying it has no uses that aren't worth it, is ridiculous.

[–] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

But we could do vocal assistants well before LLMs (look at siri) and without setting everything on fire.

And seriously, I asked for something that's worth all the down side and you bring up clippy 2.0 ???

Where are the MANY exemples ? why are LLMs/genAI company burning money ? where are the companies making use of of the suposedly many uses ?

I genuily want to understand.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's like saying "asbestos has some good uses, so we should just give every household a big pile of it without any training or PPE"

Or "we know leaded gas harms people, but we think it has some good uses so we're going to let everyone access it for basically free until someone eventually figures out what those uses might be"

It doesn't matter that it has some good uses and that later we went "oops, maybe let's only give it to experts to use". The harm has already been done by eager supporters, intentional or not.

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can run a small LLM locally which I can talk to using voice to turn certain lights on and off, set reminders for me, play music etc.

Neat trick, but it's not worth the headache of set up when you can do all that by getting off your chair and pushing buttons. Hell, you don't even have to get off your chair! A cellphone can do all that already, and you don't even need voice commands to do it.

Are you able to give any actual examples of a good use of an LLM?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Like it or not, that is an actual example.

I can lay in my bed and turn off the lights without touching my phone, or turn on certain muisic without touching my phone.

I could ask if I remembered to lock the front door etc.

But okay, I'll play your game, let's pretend that doesn't count.

I can use my local AI to draft documents or emails speeding up the process a lot.

Or I can used it to translate.

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want to live your life like that, go for that's your choice. But I don't think those applications are worth the cost of running an LLM. To be honest I find it frivolous.

I'm not against LLMs as a concept, but the way they get shoved into everything without thought and without an "AI" free option is absurd. There are good reasons why people have a knee-jerk anti-AI reaction, even if they can't articulate it themselves.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not expensive for me to run a local LLM, I just use the hardware I'm already using for gaming. Electricity is cheap and most people with a gaming PC probably use more electricity gaming than they would running their own LLM and asking it some questions.

I'm also against shoving AI in evening, and not making it Opt-In. I'm also worried about privacy and concentration of power etc.

But just outright saying LLMs are bad is rediculous.

And saying there is no good reason to use them is rediculous. Can we stop doing that.

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