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Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] brucethemoose 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Others on the social media network shared similar criticism about a perceived lack of balance in the guest list, including Dr. Margaret Mitchell of Hugging Face. "It could be beneficial to have an AI Oprah follow-up discussion that responds to what happens in [the show] and unpacks generative AI in a more grounded way," she said.

A lot of people don't realize there are two wars going on.

AI vs anti-AI.
Corporate API AI vs Open source, self hosted AI.

Given this is Lemmy, I would think a lot of us would care about the latter, but everyone (here, and elsewhere) only seems to care about the former, and are content to give Sam Altman a monopoly and destroy the planet with his crazy "outscale everyone else" ideas (instead of, you know, making AI more efficient and training it legally and transparently).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

training it legally

You seem to have quite the helping of trust for legal systems... 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah we do. But the AI communities here didn't really take off. Most people here just downvote everything about AI because they're tired of it. But there are some people who discuss that form of AI that people can run themselves, modify and participate.

[–] brucethemoose 2 points 2 months ago

I dunno. My experience on Reddit is that even bringing up the word "AI" in discussions outside of it will almost get be doxxed. I asked a TV fandom if cleaning up a bad release with diffusion models and some "non AI" filters sounded interesting, and I felt like I had triggered Godwin's law.

I did bring this up in AskLemmy, and got a mostly positive response, but I also felt like it was a tiny subset of the community.