I don’t get this. AI bros talk about how “in the near future” no one will “need” to be a writer, a filmmaker or a musician anymore, as you’ll be able to generate your own media with your own parameters and preferences on the fly. This, to me, feels like such an insane opinion. How can someone not value the ingenuity and creativity behind a work of art? Do these people not see or feel the human behind it all? And are these really opinions that you’ve encountered outside of the internet?
It was wrong of me to assume you were using it in the wasteful, mindless ways a lot of people use “ai” stuff, I’m sorry for being an asshole about it. Afaik you running stuff like that sometimes isn’t any more wasteful than you spending that time playing games that push your hardware to the max, and I hadn’t thought about that before those replies.
I’ve been really worried about how shady and powerful open ai is and how many people are starting to use it to write science papers and cheat through med school and shit, but other than all the ways corporate “AI” is horrible there’s a lot of cool and fun applications imo, and I’m sorry for assuming you were supporting sam altman’s shenanigans
Nah it’s cool DW, no offence taken.
We should support AI only as research in the public sector that is open sourced, leveling the playing field, rather than Corpos amassing evermore power.
We can’t make AI go away, and I’m sorry to those who feel it cheapens their life’s work or passion, but we can make it belong to the people. It was after all public sector research that got us to this point in the first place.
Also, fuck Sam Altman and Elon Husk and all the corpos and grifters in charge of them.