Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
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Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
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I think it may he more productive to get people to use alternative ai products that are foss and/or respect privacy.
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You got downvoted because Lemmy users like knee jerk reactions and think that you can unmake a technology or idea. You can’t, Ai is here and it’s forever now. Best we can do is find ways to live with it and like you said, reward those who use it ethically. The Lemmy idea that Ai should be banned and not used is so unrealistic
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You seem to misunderstand the ire;
AI in its current state has existed for over a decade. Watson used ML algorithms to beat Jeopardy by answering natural language questions in 2011. But techbros have gotten ahold of it and decided that copyright rules don’t apply to them and now the cat is out of the bag?!? From the outside it looks like bootlicking for the same bullshit that told us we would be using blockchain to process mortgages in 10 years… 10 years ago. AI isn’t just here to stay it’s been here for 70 years.
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ML technology has existed for a while, but it's wild to claim that the technology pre-2020 is the same. A breakthrough happened.
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Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.
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Agreed. The only thing that has really changed is how much hardware we can throw at it. ML has existed more or less since the 60s.
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Breakthroughs are not a myth. They still happen even when the process is iterative. That page even explains it. The advent of the GAN (2014-2018), which got overtaken by transformers in around 2017 for which GPTs and Diffusion models later got developed on. More hardware is what allowed those technologies to work better and bigger but without those breakthroughs you still wouldnt have the AI boom of today.
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I posted it because you claimed none of that happened before 2020.
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I never claimed anything besides that breakthroughs did happen since you claimed, which is objectively true. You claimed very concretely that AI was the same for over a decade, aka it was the same in at least 2015 if I'm being charitable, all of these things were researched in the last 7-8 years and only became the products as we know them in the last 5 years. (Aka 2020)
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You are clearly only reading the parts you want to read. Have fun.
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The absolute irony
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