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Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer (www.youtube.com)
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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The website that she refers to in her video, and the massively wrong verbiage in the paragraphs proceeding, is definitely not "AI Slop", this is a pretty common thing to see in mass website farms from India.

Go ask chat.openai.com to explain GLTF and GLB to you, and it's not going to have any of this weird grammatical error shit; it explains GLB pretty succinctly, because it's a widely discussed subject.

Unfortunately, sooooo many people are worried about AI, that they're attributing anything and everything to it now. These types of grammatically broken websites existed before any kind of useful LLM text generation, and they'll continue to exist afterwards as well. But they are not AI-generated.

AI hallucinates and generates jibberish when you're asking it to generate text about edge cases and knowledge bases which aren't commonly talked about. This is not one of those examples.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

AI hallucinates and generates jibberish when you're asking it to generate text about edge cases and knowledge bases which aren't commonly talked about.

I've had AI give me examples which were could've been right but were wrong in the given context. I don't find it too difficult to believe it could use details from one file format to supplant knowledge for another.

Go ask chat.openai.com

(The current version of) ChatGPT may not be the ai used to generate these articles.

The website that she refers to in her video, and the massively wrong verbiage in the paragraphs proceeding, is definitely not "AI Slop"

That's may be true for some, but the hourlong podcast 'discussion' on the file format was definitely AI generated.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

AI is just a tool. But like any tool, it's immediately misused by greedy capitalists for making life worse for everyone that isn't them.

The problem is capitalism, not AI.

[–] ReCursing@lemmings.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What a fucking stupid clickbait headline

[–] Sheldan@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A description of the decision to choose the words is contained within the video. 1:05:18

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Over an hour into the video. Not going to be seen by anyone who doesn't already buy in to the headline.

Ironically, I just asked an AI to tell me what the video's justification for the title was.

The speaker clarifies that they are using the terms "parasite" and "cancer" in a precise way to describe generative AI. ● Generative AI is parasitic because it relies on human communication and creativity for training data but simultaneously erodes and destroys those very things. The speaker compares it to a parasite that drains resources from its host without offering any benefits in return. ● Generative AI is cancerous because it spreads rapidly, replacing authentic human content with AI-generated content, and dealing with it will likely be difficult and have unintended consequences. The speaker acknowledges that addressing this problem, much like chemotherapy for cancer, might inadvertently harm "healthy cells" as well.

The speaker chose this title to emphasize their serious concerns about the negative impact of generative AI on human creativity, communication, and the internet. They believe generative AI is harmful because it deceives users by presenting AI-generated content as human-created. The speaker clarifies their word choice to preempt potential criticism and ensure their message is understood.

[–] ReCursing@lemmings.world 0 points 4 days ago

Thank you for that. Having read it, I stand by my previous assessment that it is fucking stupid. That's utter bullshit and belies a complete failure to understand art or art history (which is kind of refreshing I suppose because the luddites are usually vocal about their lack of understanding of the technology and subtle about their lack of understading about art history)

[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No it's not. Just learn how to use search instead of doing it like it's only for software developers. It's not 1999 anymore.
"glb file specification" on duck.com links directly to this.
https://registry.khronos.org/glTF/specs/2.0/glTF-2.0.html.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

".glb file specification" gets that as its first hit on Google, too. OP was just being incredibly lazy and ironically was expecting the search engine to figure out what she wanted without telling it explicitly.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

AI is the enshitification of everything it touches.

[–] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Not necessarily

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 days ago

It is a tool like any other... corpos trying to shove LLMs into everything. People building careers on hype.

[–] cikano@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Very good video, I despise generative AI slop

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

The video is completely incorrect in what it's pointing out as being "AI Generated". The person in the video is a moron.