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Do not use ai
(lemmy.nz)
cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world/p/1758477/using-fascist-technology-to-fight-fascism-still-promotes-fascist-technology
Using fascist technology to fight fascism still promotes fascist technology.
AI as a term is essentially vaporware. The ways that it's being used to describe real, useful, and frankly niche technologies, that people rightfully find good and useful, and to describe the consumer facing slop machines that swallow an entire lake just to make a shitty image of an anime girl with 3 tits, is purposeful so as to poison the well, and make discussion about the subject more difficult.
Nah. The math is all the same, the models can be the same, it's all just the application. We don't like AI applied to bullshit capitalist profit driven goals, but those exact same models are being used to tangibly improve the world in other applications.
It's like saying hammers are evil because people can murder people with hammers, which is ignoring the entire industry of construction workers. It's just in the case of AI, it's way more powerful than a hammer, so the implications are much larger depending on the application.
AI means, and has always meant, artificial means of doing what before computers seemed only possible with real, human intelligence. Another good way of looking at it is algorithms for problems for which it's not practical to explicitly write an algorithm to solve.
It's meant this since Turing. That's a remarkable foresight if it's "purposefully poisoning the well."