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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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[–] Asetru@feddit.org 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness.

No. It isn't. First and foremost, it produces a randomised output that it has learned to make look like other stuff on the Internet. It has as much to do with consciousness as a set of dice and the fact that you think it's more than that already shows how you don't understand what it is and what it does.

AI doesn't produce anything new. It doesn't reason, it isn't creative. As it has no understanding or experience, it doesn't develop or change. Using it to produce art shows a lack of understanding of what art is supposed to be or accomplish. AI only chews up what's being thrown at it to vomit it onto the Web, without any hint of something new. It also lacks understanding about the world, so asking it about decisions to be made is not only like asking an encyclopedia that comes up with answers on the fly based on whether they sound nice, regardless of the answers being correct, applicable or even possible.

And on top of all of this, on top of people using a bunch of statistical dice rolls to rob themselves of experiences and progress that they'd have made had they made their own decisions or learned painting themselves, it's an example of the "rules for thee, not for me". An industry that has lobbied against the free information exchange for decades, that sent lawyers after people who downloaded decades old books or movies for a few hours of private enjoyment suddenly thinks that there might be the possibility of profits around the corner, so they break all the laws they helped create without even the slightest bit of self-awareness. Their technology is just a hollow shell that makes the Internet unusable for all the shit it produces, but at least it isn't anything else. Their business model, however, openly declares that people are only second class citizens.

There you are. That's why I hate it. What's not to hate?