FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Personally, I don't think there is a solid plan. Any plan. They are throwing very expensive spaghetti at the wall, mostly undercooked, and little sticks. They are the gamblers at the roulette table betting the house on double zero.

Proven usefulness is rare. Helping people with disabilities leading a more independent life is one of those. Are those the folks with deep pockets? I think film making will include this in one way or another. Does that justify building all these data centers and the costs attached? The only area where I would say to hell with the costs is if this can help in the fields of medicine or pharmacology but I don't think they have proven usefulness there satisfactorily. So who will pay back the insane debt this pie in the sky is baked with? Answer: anybody, as far as the so-called-AI peddlers are concerned. But that wasn't the plan. That's probably already pivot plan T at this point. It's not built for normies, but it's marketed towards them, out of necessity at this point. To the detriment of overall ability to think critically and for the environment.

Don't call me Shirley.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's like with planting trees. The best time was to plant some 50 years ago, the second best time is now. But it is too late in many ways.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 20 points 2 months ago

This is basically an ad. Also, if you auto-filled in an area you maybe shouldn't strip the meta data that indicates that you used a model to do that.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this post written by a chat bot or did you just format it to look like it was? Either way, not great choices if you ask me.

Shitty flyers have always existed. A lot of humans are no better at this than the machines.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 32 points 2 months ago

Nothing fills my heart with such joy as negative Meta headlines.

The Yahoo!tech writers went on a deep dive and watched a YouTube video.

Yahoo!tech digging deep for a story there.

I recognize that this is perhaps the motivation of the tech's peddlers right now. It's not a foregone conclusion that this is what's going to happen.

Just from an economic angle, they need somebody to pay for all of this. It isn't self sustaining. If we have no more jobs, no more artists, and all live broke, hand to mouth, who is going to pay for all this processing hardware they bought on credit, let alone the services they try to push on us that don't work? Until they can plug us in like in the Matrix there's still hope.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I am in Japan where they have just discovered a cartel of ice cream manufacturers pushing up prices. Supply and demand. This is capitalism, baby!

This is a lawsuit, right? It'll go through a few judges' hands on appeals and what not and by the time the companies get their slap on the wrist in 2-5 years they will have made so much money it doesn't matter.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's well worth it if you ask me. The school children can sit in the dark and hot/cold (delete as appropriate) so Bob in Idaho can generate a 30 second video of Yoda dancing to Wannabe in the style of Studio Ghibli, which he will look at once and then never again.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Alibaba picking up Anthropic's fair use strategy?

Edit: is there an argument for letting the US ruin its economy and environment to train all these models and then just swooping in before it turns into a mild madmaxian hellscape to distill and/or extract the knowledge? Beats having to do this on your own, doesn't it?

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