tal comments on Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’

[–] tal@olio.cafe 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I have to say that the basic concept of having Meta pay human adult content performers to perform to teach an AI about sexual performance would be kind of surreal.

"So what do you do for work?"

"I'm an exotic dancer."

"Straight or gay establishment?"

"Err...I perform for an artificial intelligence."

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

Joanna Maciejewaska

I expect that Joanna would not be enthused about humans stripping for machines.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

While I understand the meaning behind the quote, the quote itself doesn't make any sense.

AI isn't necessarily generative image systems, that's just one category of AI. Currently there are no commercially available robots and the ones that do exist can't do domestic chores with any degree of reliability.

It's a lot easier to get AI to generate images than to get it to make your bed. So the quoter is demanding it do the hard thing, rather than the easy thing.

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[–] tal@olio.cafe 3 points 1 year ago*

Yeah, in all honesty, it's not really my ideal as a quote to capture the idea. Among other things, it's comparing what is for the quoted person, household tasks and employment, whereas I'd generally prefer employment vs employment for most of these.

And for the quoted person, the issue is that AI is doing work that we tend to think of as potentially-desirable, rather than in the context I'm writing about, where it's more that science fiction often portrays AI-driven sex robots that perform for humans (think Blade Runner or A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)), but doesn't really examine humans performing for AIs.

Still, it was the closest popular quote I could think of to address the idea that the split between AI and human roles in a world with AIs is not that which we might have anticipated.

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[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

can't do domestic chores

My robovac is pretty good at domestic chores, no LLM involved tho. My dish and clothes washing machines also do a better job than I could by hand, and only require me to load and unload them.

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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

Yeah. That quote is really based on ignorance.

Form the recent paper by Open AI on how GPT is being used. 1.6 percent use it to 'write fiction', image generation is less than 5%.