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Fuck AI

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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 126 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats actually a great analogy. Its exactly like mixing up all the colors and expecting a rainbow instead of brown goo.

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was always such a confusing disappointment that vibrant colours inevitably devolved into turd brown. Entropy apparently does not spare our feelings.

[–] mech@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

There's another way of looking at it.
The dirt all around you contains all the colors of the rainbow!

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[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 81 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you wont drink the contents of the tray under the beer taps, you just hate beer. Its an infinite mashup of all the best beer ever made.

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The original is a gif lol, just search for gagging white cat

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago
[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

There are places in the UK that hold competitions organised by the local community/pubs, and this is the forfeit. One got banned. Dont think that the Haxey Hood do it, but its an example of what im on about.

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[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

I dunno, the bars I can afford to go to it's an infinite mashup of all the worst beer ever made

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Fortunately the trademark expired, so we can in fact call them dumpsters.

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. I make it a very annoying habit to never call these things "AI" and correct others if they do.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Timely anecdote!

Yesterday my son asked me what AI means, and if it meant something is fake. He's young so I didn't go into the LLM distinction, just defined how "artificial" means yes it's fake, and "AI generated" just means they asked a computer to make it.

It reminds me of when everything was "cloud cloud cloud!!!" It's just other people's computers!

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Serverless means there are no servers

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 points 2 months ago

It actually just means you aren't allowed to know about the servers, so when it turns out your application is running too slowly they can claim your application is poorly optimized and/or you're simply not paying them enough instead of the reality that they have you and 7,000 other people sharing the same kind of chip that controls a toaster.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are image generators like midjourney also LLMs?

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They are diffusion models with a language model to understand prompts. What all of the have in common is that they are generative AI.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

they are not Generative AI they are Slop Generators

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Again, they are not AI. We have not come up with an “AI” yet. What they are, are Machine-Learning, or “ML” models. They are not intelligent.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't imagine dying on this hill. People have been using the word AI to refer to things that aren't real artificial intelligence for literally decades. It's the phrase people use for when a computer does something that mimics intelligence. How come I never hear you people talk about how video game NPCs don't have AI?

"Actually, that character's programming is a form of virtual intelligence, not artificial intelligence."

~literally nobody in history

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

"virtual intelligence" just reminds me of Mass Effect

Also, a lot of the time NPC behavior isn't even virtual intelligence.

Stupid Goombas walking off a cliff lmao

(He says, while continuing to scroll when he should be going to sleep)

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

why should we stop using a term that has been used for at least a decade to refer to things much "dumber" than something like gpt 3.5

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"It was wrong before so now it's not wrong anymore"

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

if people use a word to refer to something for a long time, it means that that something is included in the words definition

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

If everyone uses a word "wrong" then it's not wrong, that's just what the word means now.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Because the name is corpo pr speak to make it sound better than it is. We should not be repeating their lies.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Guess language evolves, because a simple A* or Dijkstra pathfinder was AI just ten years ago. Machine learning too.

Also, ask people what "intelligent" / intelligence is and you get one definition per person.

Artificial intelligence doesn't need to be good, just artificial, IMO.

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[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

No
LLMs stand for Large Language Models
They both are generative AI, but that term also includes, as far as i know, vocaloid software too

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you love AI you probably hate art and expression...

If OOP actually loved art and expression, they'd be supporting actual artists making actual art, rather than putting their weight behind the no-effort jungle juice of art AI produces.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

AI cannot create art, so the whole discussion is kind of moot IMO.

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

really tho, chefs kiss. 🤌👨‍🍳💋👌

[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

as a fan of mashup culture the first argument is so weird. what makes mashup art interesting is the ability to recognise similarities the constituent parts and the artistry of merging them. ai art is more like a blender. you can make interesting things with the tech but it requires an actual artistic talent as well as careful planning both before and after. pouring in whatever will just net you beige goo.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

This. I do appreciate a good collage or remix/electronic music with lots of samples. And they're nothing like AI slop

[–] mech@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you don't like robots crushing people into paste, you just hate humans.
The paste is a mashup of all the best humans.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I love billionaire paste. It's the richest form of human paste.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

that reply is art

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

If you eat my refuse it will make you strong, don't listen to the haters.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Everything the tech bros are touching, dies

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Mmm, dumpster juice.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There is no "AI". Generated art is generated by computers created and programmed by humans.

Also art is subjective. Both these views are absurdly absolutist. Reality is gray.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dont think a computer can create art.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

as a child with watercolors I'd mix them all together and paint. mom always loved my pictures

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