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AI = Fascism
(lemmy.nz)
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Ecologically, it's binary: bad
Economically, it's binary: bad
In actual practice, in the broad strokes, it's not binary, but leans hard toward bad.
There are specific things, it's good at, that are very low token/power
If my 2070 could handle any models with tool use, I could do a lot of it at home.
While I'm doing DevOps work, I keep a window open of what i'm doing, what choices i'm making, i gave it a RO harness to access the stuff i'm working on so it can check me for errors and enumerate security concerns.
When i'm done architecting something, I have it fully document what, where, how, why and add in any security concerns. I then have that stuffed in a repo for my sucessor and any devs that need to understand what I did.
it 95% going to fuck over humanity and pay the oligarchs. The remaining 5% can't justify it's existence, but while it's there, i'm going to use it. They're not paying me more, it can at least remove shit work from my plate while it's available.
Economically it’s only bad because of the capitalist system we live in.
Even ecologically it could also probably be not so bad considering what we could get out of it.
I’m with you on the last bit. I use it a ton at work as a software dev with some devops work
Honestly feels like a firing offense if people in this line of work haven’t incorporated into their workflow at this point. But politically it will fuck is over, once again because it’s owned but a couple of fascist minded dudes