@Pavel said in AI Megathread:
@Faraday said in AI Megathread:
The LLM doesn’t know whether something is true, and it doesn’t care.
I know this may seem like a quibble, but I feel it’s an important distinction: It can’t do either of those things, because it’s not intelligent. It’s a very fancy word predictor, it can’t think, it can’t know, it can’t create.
(This very obvious rant is not directed to anyone in particular but I still feel like it needed to be said…)
Neither can a computer. It can’t think, it can’t know, it can’t create any more than an AI can. It can’t get nearly as close as AI can. But every person here still uses computers. No one’s given up the machine and accessories filled with toxic metals that have been clawed from the earth as quickly as possible without regard for the environment it might be disturbing for the purposes of profit. Metals that are so valuable they mean the potential end or continuation of wars that kill hundreds of thousands with body counts that go up every day that possession of these metals aren’t agreed upon or bargained away to stop the death and dying. Metals that will go into these computers we all use that will likely return to the earth to sit in a landfill forever with parts that will never biodegrade in exchange for being of limited, non-thinking, non-knowing, non-creative use for just a few short years.
Everyone here also uses the internet with all the filth and hate and disgusting things that can be found online. Darkwebnuffsaid. The same internet that contributed to the death of newspapers and the decline of journalism as well as people’s recognition of truth and facts. The same internet that allowed Amazon to put countless small businesses out of business across the world. But no one here has stopped using that. Everyone is still contributing online to the companies that track and store massive amounts of information on as many people as possible on servers around the globe that devour energy like a bottomless pit and exude heat like a hell-connected furnace, then weaponize that information for profit and political leverage so intense it can turn elections in the most powerful country in the world, very specifically by weaponizing fear and hate and turning those dials up to 11 on people’s internet feeds to sway votes with no regard for what those people might do with their fear and hate outside of the voting booth.
How is it that AI is the problem?
You can’t be serious.
Please.
One might think you are being just a tad too…
Critical.
But okay. Rant done. Get on your computer and tell me on the internet how AI is so problematic you won’t use it.
I’m totally listening.