Fuck AI

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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.

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I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence.

I also want to factor in people who think that there's nothing anyone can do. I've come to realize that there might not be a way to attack OpenAI, MidJourney, or Stable Diffusion. These people, which I will call Doomers from an AIHWOS article, are perfectly welcome here. You can certainly come along and read the AI Hype Wall Of Shame, or the diminishing returns of Deep Learning. Maybe one can even become a Mod!

Boosters, or people who heavily use AI and see it as a source of good, ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE! I've seen Boosters dox, threaten, and harass artists over on Reddit and Twitter, and they constantly champion artists losing their jobs. They go against the very purpose of this community. If I hear a comment on here saying that AI is "making things good" or cheering on putting anyone out of a job, and the commenter does not retract their statement, said commenter will be permanently banned. FA&FO.

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Alright, I just want to clarify that I've never modded a Lemmy community before. I just have the mantra of "if nobody's doing the right thing, do it yourself". I was also motivated by the decision from u/spez to let an unknown AI company use Reddit's imagery. If you know how to moderate well, please let me know. Also, feel free to discuss ways to attack AI development, and if you have evidence of AIBros being cruel and remorseless, make sure to save the evidence for people "on the fence". Remember, we don't know if AI is unstoppable. AI uses up loads of energy to be powered, and tons of circuitry. There may very well be an end to this cruelty, and it's up to us to begin that end.

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47841834

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33364857

Surprise surprise

BREAKING NEWS: AI IS STILL GARBAGE🔥🗑️

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HarperCollins sent an offer of $2,500 for a three-year license to feed Kibblesmith’s book to an unspecified “large tech company” AI.

HarperCollins claimed that “several hundred authors” had already agreed to the deal. As Kibblesmith’s agent put it: “there is concern that these AI models might one day make us all obsolete.”

Kibblesmith declined, calling the offer “abominable.” He told the AV Club regarding HarperCollins: “It seems like they think they’re cooked, and they’re chasing short money while they can.”

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Let’s be happy it doesn’t have access to nuclear weapons at the moment.

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In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults, Google's Gemini responded with this threatening message:

"This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please."

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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

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This morning I was searching for vegan options for hide glue

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/dr-jekylls-hyde-glue-the-vegans-alternative/

I ended up in that page which I think it's a joke. So then I searched for that in Amazon.

This morning on my work computer I get this Dr. Jekyll thing provided to me by Microsoft's AI driven shit blaster.

You tell me WTF. My phone is not connected to my home computer and my work computer is not connected to either. How the fuck do they figure out the connection. And why? Like I totally I'm not interested in this particular story guy or even the fake glue that was the start of the joke.

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It can be and will always be used as a subject of art, at the very least and unconditionally... The best thing we can do as a collective is try to isolate it in order to make it „learn itself“. Or make it non nonexistent, which will be pretty hard.

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The photograph in Arthur’s article showed what had happened in a particular street. Taken with a telephoto lens from an upper storey of a building, it showed a chaotic and almost surreal scene: about 70 vehicles of all sizes jumbled up and scattered at crazy angles along the length of the street.

It was an astonishing image which really stopped me in my tracks. Not surprisingly, it also went viral on social media. And then came the reaction: “AI image, fake news.” The photograph was so vivid, so uncannily sharp and unreal, that it looked to viewers like something that they could have faked themselves using Midjourney or Dall-E or a host of other generative AI tools.

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What a wonderful piece of Linux propaganda 😁. Look at this piece of shit spying on me at work doing who knows what that it needs more than one process.

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Meta has historically restricted its LLMs from uses that could cause harm – but that has apparently changed. The Facebook giant has announced it will allow the US government to use its Llama model family for, among other things, defense and national security applications.

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