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Counterpoint: the right is missing out on artistic intention

I’m excited about AI and LLM’s. I just use them locally via LM studio so that I don’t end up locked out of any of it u find useful.

Translation: we want everyone, no matter the political ideology, addicted to our slop machines.

You can basically ignore somebody out of their sheer stupidity if they try to lump the NYT in with the “left”

This argument is made from the position of someone who is deep in the cult. They actually believe that this tech is somehow world shattering and anyone not bought into the cult, who just thinks the models are interesting tools with some useful applications, rather than magical, is crazy.

good enough for Taylor Lorenz though. She is losing it.

‘Why isn’t everyone else as excited as the cursed collection of neoliberals, fascists and tech bro bootlickers?’ Shouldn’t be surprised they were able to prompt an article out of that.

I read it and kept waiting and waiting for to explain what it actually was and….you know the rest.

Complaining about "spicy autocorrect" is fair, to a degree. It should be "spicy autocorrect localized in an n-dimensional vector matrix". But that doesn't make it any more intelligent. He also conflates a potential bubble with dismissiveness. Tulips are real, the values assigned were not.

Thats an early entrant for the stupid sentence of the year award.

Can we also revel in the supreme arrogance of an article which argues that the burden of proof is on neuroscientists to prove how the fucking human brain works, rather than….I dunno….the shitty LLMs that hallucinate all the time?

OMG there's a huge fucking difference!

Same energy

The obsession with trying to anthropomorphize ai is such a sad thing to watch happen.

You think me crazy for preferring the wire mother from the soft mother??? But fool that you are, you fail to recognize how useful the wire mother is, at predicting the next time I'll be (ouch) jabbed and scraped by my wire mother.

behold: cognition

They shit on the humanities for years and cut funding and now look at where it got us.

This is just Altman Redux bsky.app/profile/adje...

Lol!

It's just incredible how these people who know nothing about education or psychology or neuroscience keep throwing this out there.

suddenly trying to locate that article penned by an economist who opened with "so it turns out The Left was totally right about poverty and the destruction of wage growth, but they were shrill and annoying, so i ignored them for 20 years"

I am the left, and I'm saying AI has limited uses as an enhanced (but unreliable) search feature, and for cheating in school. I am also saying that these things ain't worth $ billion. I AM THE LEFT AND I SAY THESE THINGS

bsky.app/profile/fubs...

Understood, thanks. I was worried there were some pro-AI Doctorow takes I had missed but it sounds like he basically just finds voice transcription useful

I mean I don't see him as a supporter: "AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." and "It is a way to create tech debt at scale."

These people can't engage with substantive criticism so they've just tared everyone as "the left" who all have a single philosophical hang up. Meanwhile, you've got pretty much everyone who isn't in tech genuinely pissed because this LLM rollout, for lack of better word, is ruining everything.

I'm a bit of an EMP fan, does that count?

Trying to shame people into using your product is certainly a novel marketing approach.

Plenty of technologies that I’m excited about as a person of “the left”, thank you very much. High speed rail, microgrids, non-fossil power generation, superconductors… need I go on? I’m just pissed that we are throwing so many resources into a bottomless pit that will consume the things i love!!

Yes, that article is quite bad, and now that I'm reminded of it again I'm realizing it's horribly awful, and then again come to think of it it's also thoroughly ghastly and possibly very terrible.

Isn't Bernie Sanders talking a lot about regulating AI? The left talks about regulation, the right talks about deregulation (and I guess they "engage" with it, because they support using it) I don't really understand what he wants the left to do

AI is wrong all the time. In my lowly profession of perfume importing and retail, where details matter- it’s wrong more often than not. So much so, that I finally swore off Google Chrome and search. Ultimately, they are stockpiling compute and storage infrastructure to surveil us. That’s clear.

sorry, we're ceding to the right the debate about it being a threat.. how, exactly?? I don't need to use AI to see the many aspects of the societal fabric it threatens!!

These guys telling us that we're "missing out" on AI told us that we were missing out on NFTs, the metaverse, play to earn gaming, crypto memecoins, smart pins, and way more BS. Some of them have already given up and are pivoting to telling us that we're missing out on prediction markets though.

ITER is cool the same way the LHC is cool

3d printing, CnC lathes, laser welding and so all are all very new tech that allow for industrial grade single unit production. If we ever actually abolish commodities they would be the things that let you custom make everything to meet demand

and vaccines!