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My understanding is most of you are anti AI? My only question is....why? It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness. No joke the AI in sci fi movies is worse than what we actually have in many ways!

Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely anti "AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap". If that's what being Anti AI is.....to that I say Amen.

But simply not liking a privacy conscious experience or utilization of AI at all? I'm not getting it?

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[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lol, you're getting downvoted just for asking, that should sum up the whole argument.

The hate is real here, and IMO most of it is unjustified. There are a few good points that are made:

  • Training data was not ethically sourced. Can't get around that, it just wasn't. It was legal-ish, but it wasn't moral. Image generators especially, the art was not willingly given - but IMO if you aren't taking work out of their hands I don't have a major issue with it.
  • Same as your issue, AI is being shoved everywhere embodying the "If you're a hammer everything is a nail".
  • Privacy concerns as you've talked about, and security.

That being said, I don't have any issues with using it at home, local LLMs, and I'll even say I use it daily to help with coding. I've been coding for 20 years and I have to admit it does help, if you know when to use it. It has sped me up considerably.

[โ€“] WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Ya why the hell am I being down voted ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

That is how much Lemmy hates AI, even a discussion about it that expressed any degree of positivity is bad.

[โ€“] jarvis@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

My guess is you're being downvoted because you claim AI is the coolest invention since the internet, but ironically you present that claim to a corner of the internet instead of inside the safety of a prompt window. Some may find this ironic because instead of asking the "almost resembling consciousness" to generate an almost resembling answer, you opted to consult a primary source instead. Some folks might see this as the behavior of someone so close to figuring it out...

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Other commenter is right, and it's exactly why I don't give much credit to Lemmy's general opinion on AI. If it's so bad that even the discussion around it has to be downvoted, then I don't think they're arguing in good faith. Personally ChatGPT has helped me immensely with my work. It's not the world-changer everyone swears it's going to be, I'm fully out of the hype train - However only a fool would say that it has no value at this point. If engineers are refusing to use it, they're going to be left behind. The real job loss will be for those who refuse to use it altogether. Solid engineers see it as a new tool in their toolbelt and use it as such.

[โ€“] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely correct.

One random example: where I work, CVs are being filtered by an AI before they are opened by a human reducing the volume to a 20% of potentially good candidates. In that 20% there is always someone to hire, so it doesn't matter if a good candidate is lost in the AI filter. Failing to optimize the CV for AI literally means being left behind.

This reminds me of something I heard: AI isn't going to take your job. The person who knows how to use AI is going to take your job.