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I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man I did not realize how dire the AI/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:
There's a lot more, but it's really making me feel crazy. Even if it was right 100% of the time, why are you paying thousands of dollars to go to school and learn if you're just going to plug everything into a computer whenever you're asked to think??
'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do
got a major pest problem this year actually
I'm a disabled and chronically ill writer. I can't write every time i want to. I can't use a keyboard or handwrite for disability reasons. The only way i can write is by typing in the notes app on my phone. This is also painful and i can write a few hundred words at most.
Isn't it interesting how i still wouldn't consider using AI to write my stories instead? If the only way for me to write my stories is by using voice to text and i can write only a single word everyday i still wouldn't choose AI
Fuck AI and fuck you for pretending to care about disability people just so you can steal art made by disabled people
AI ASSISTIVE is not what we are fighting against.
Its AI GENERATIVE bullshit that's stealing our jobs and passions.
There is nothing wrong with using AI to ask for a prompt or an idea (I.e., asking ChatGPT for a writing prompt). There IS something wrong with asking AI to write a book, printing out the response, and publishing it, claiming that YOU wrote this word for word.
Because you didn't.
When you ask for a writing or art prompt, you're giving yourself a TOOL. A TOOL to help your brain imagine something. You are able to use the prompt as a basis for a story or image that YOU spent time and energy and imagination to create.
But if you ask AI to generate something, all you're doing is thinking of a prompt and throwing it at a robot to make "art". It takes a few seconds.
AI is robotic. For now, it has no soul.
I'd rather have a work of art made from a prompt given by AI but realized by a human than a work of "art" made from a prompt given from a human but realized by AI.
This is not my point at all. AI is hugely problematic in many many ways. One of them being that it steals from people. ChatGPT is not an exception.
The point of this post is not "Don't say you made it when it's AI". The point is that you should not be using AI. There is no reason to use AI. If you need prompts there are countless of writing and prompt specific blogs on various social media that you can look through.
Don't use AI. All AI is stealing from people. From actual artists and writers.
There's no good excuse to use ChatGPT for anything, including writing prompts, which incidentally is still generative AI.
Soul, or lackthereof, isn't why AI like this is bad.
It's built and trained on the theft of work other people actually put thought into, including prompts, and it's disastrous for the environment, which is pretty significant given we're in climate crisis.
It's also already collapsing around itself.
Writing is difficult when you're disabled, just like everything else. The last thing I need or want assistance with is using my words to tell my story.
And given the horror stories of disabled tech being 'repossessed' by companies going bankrupt, being surgically removed or just rendered redundant, AI and its tech bros are the last thing I want anywhere near our community.
As the others on the thread said, I do not want LLMs/generative AI anywhere near my community. I also really hate that some pro-generative AI orgs keep trying to use our community as a "shield" to hide the fact they're ableist. To sum it all up:
Of course list is not exhaustive. I'm sure others will think of other things that harm our community that I didn't list above.
Point is, LLM/Generative AI is a scam by tech bros to flood the world with shit and make it harder for us to find one another and create community with one another. It's a thrift for them to get a fast buck at the expense of everyone else. I hate that they are trying to force it down our throats.
That's an incredible gift for an otter to give! I bet it's thr favourite stone of one of the two (they keep it in their pocket and apparently some hang onto their favourite for their entire lives). They use the stone to crack open shells they can't manage with their teeth or claws.
An otter giving away it's stone is quite the sacrifice!
Of course there's a chance this wasn't one of their's, and instead a stone they quickly found to use as a gift and even if that is the case (though I think it less likely), it's still an important gesture knowing how important stones are to them.
I...uh...nice story but it starts with a river otter who magically morphs into a sea otter, and changes locations several times.
Pretty sure the sea otter at the end is at an aquarium and has been trained to bring things to the keeper.
I don’t know if this is like an AI thing or what but I have been seeing a TON of these fake animal rescue videos lately.
I was sent a particularly ludicrous one of a turtle being saved from a shark then supposedly bringing the person who saved it a jellyfish as a thank you?? Something that a severely wounded turtle would simply never ever do? And I saw it shared by lots of animal savvy folks on my feed! Wild how the turtle also changes species mid-video and no longer has wounds to the shell.
Crazy stuff man. Don’t let your desire to be heart-warmed override your skepticism. It’s important to think critically about the animal behavior that is presented in these videos.
I don't care about data scraping from ao3 (or tbh from anywhere) because it's fair use to take preexisting works and transform them (including by using them to train an LLM), which is the entire legal basis of how the OTW functions.
To be fair some of us don't object to our works being used because "OMG my style! my copyright!" My style is not that unique.
I want to do my part to sabotage the production and refinement of LLMs because I hate LLMs.
Okay I mean this very seriously because you and I have talked over the years and we both know we're not stupid: why do you hate LLMs?
Most of the time when people talk about why they hate LLMs what they mean is that they hate how LLMs are being used, and I can absolutely agree that there are a lot of LLMs being used really badly. Please know that I am mentally inserting the "el problema es el capitalismo" meme here.
But the Goblin.Tools magic to-do list is the function of an LLM (that is a website full of free tools created for people with ADHD; it is run on donations by a developer with ADHD who created this tool to help other people).
Replit, the IDE I was using for my most recent coding class, uses an LLM-based AI tool to suggest corrections to your code and highlight errors, teaching baby programmers to recognize errors without having to comb through long programs by hand or relying on having a more experienced programmer nearby to help you figure out where you're fucking up.
There are definite problems surrounding the use of AI search engine results or replacing customer support positions with chatbots, but saying you hate LLMs because OpenAI is kind of shit is sort of like saying you hate web browsers because Google sucks. An LLM is a tool. There are different models trained on different data sets.
So what I'm frustrated by in a lot of these conversations, and what I'm asking you, is "is it the tool you're upset with, or how it's being used, and if it's the tool: why?"
What bothers me are the misconceptions people have about it. It's like they say a film of Clever Hans (a horse who could follow cues from the audience or its handler, used to perform math and other tricks) and announced that henceforth, everyone who needs a calculator should get a horse.
It's a horse. That's it. At its *best*, it tells you the answer you want to hear. But most horses have no skill in this and trying to cram them into applications is dumb.
I am tired of and irritated by the pro-horse hype.
I'm absolutely right there with you about being tired of the pro-horse hype.
"AI" has very few practical applications for people who aren't already using it and quite a lot of impractical applications for people who have been misinformed about its capabilities, which is an awful lot of people because there are a lot of companies making a lot of money lying about its capabilities right now.
ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:
I don't know, how about switching it off?
Have you tried turning it off, and not turning it back on again?
imagine if you had a death note and you used an ai image generator to make a persons face and then asked chatgpt to assign them a name and then you wrote that name in the death note and the image was slowly but surely destroyed by jpeg compression (the equivalent of a heart attack for images)
Apparently they're selling post content to train AI now so let us be the first to say, flu nork purple too? West motor vehicle surprise hamster much! Apple neat weed very crumgible oysters in a patagonia, my hat. Very of the and some then shall we not? Much jelly.
Eaglet o written. Beach fork bagel is a bmw. Hockey fire of the nine flare golf runner
it seems that the most terrifying impact of AI on the Internet is that ninja pirate monkey laser-posting is going to be in vogue again
Wasing the needing of High Imperial!
Jangle was da dump da do? Fawheezy!
Pssst if you have ublock: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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