Fuck AI

AI in others fields, like medecine, automatic subtitles, engineering, is fine for me. It won't give bad habits, it is well understood by its users, and it is truly benefical, as in being more efficient to save lifes than humans, or simply being helpful to disabled people.

I think the generative AI tech bros have deliberately contributed to a lot of confusion by calling all machine learning algorithms "AI".

I mean, you have some software which both works and is socially beneficial, like translation and speech recognition software.

You have some software that works, and is incredibly dangerous because it works, like facial recognition and all the horrible ways authoritarian governments can exploit it.

And then you have some software that "works" to produce socially detrimental bullshit, like generative AI.

All three of these categories use machine learning algorithms, trained on data sets to recognize and produce patterns. But they aren't the same in any other meaningful sense. Calling them all "AI" does nothing but confuse the issue.