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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Conversations I’ve had about AI turned out disappointing and left me feeling like I was the crazy one. When I try to point out the very real issues with the use of AI, like the unreliability of the answers/outputs, the unethical sourcing of data, the environmental impact, just to name a few; people look at me or flat out try to explain to me that I’m some sort of luddite opposed to the technological advancement of humanity. "You don’t understand, it’s nothing more than another invention like the telephone or electricity. People were also scared back then because they didn’t understand how it worked, but now everything’s fine " was all I got in return last time, after taking 5 minutes to detail exactly why the generalized use of AI is problematic. Everything I tried to explain ignored and brushed off with a “you’re just being hysterical” deflection. To me it feels like people who embraced AI are entrenched in their opinion and it seems a waste of my time to try to raise the concerns I have with them. Some seem moved by the greed of the effortless riches/solutions they believe AI will bring them, others just by laziness, as long as they don’t have to write their 5 sentences emails they don’t give a fuck about anything else. Other than waiting for it to turn to shit, and try to meditate the frustration away or something, I don’t really know what else to do at this point.



















  • Right. Do you feel like I need to justify myself about my life choices to express criticism and a bad opinion about generative IA?

    Generative IA is still a huge increasing drain on environnemental resources no matter how much of a hypocrite I may or may not be. I’m not knowledgeable but I assume that models run locally still have to be trained on huge amounts of data before being deployed.

    And this image is still shit: it wasn’t produced by a human mind and it is completely tone-deaf. I can’t tell if the portrayal of the character tries to go for “heroic” or “ridicule”. It could be made by an anti trump viewpoint as well as a pro trump one, it’s just that bad.

    IA models are still useless as answer boxes as they are unreliable and prone to “hallucinations”. Regarding content creation I think I they are an insult to the very concept of creativity, and the people using it for that purpose are polluters of creative spaces. So yeah, I do hate IA, very much and very openly. I just wasn’t aware I had to show some sort of credentials before being allowed to say something about it.