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submitted 3 days ago by opiumfree@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks. this happened on lemmy but i saw people getting downvoted for saying that genAI in its current state is harmful to the environment. i saw the old bullshit of how ”i use AI for art because i cant draw”, it was crazy. i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much. so can everybody pls affirm you dont support that crap.

another user straight up admitted that they use AI as a friend and to gn to... i dont care how much we have in common ideologically, i cant support you gning to chatgpt and thinking its your friend...

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[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much.

Yeah that's an extremely shitty thing to say, unironically. You're throwing sex workers under the bus to dunk on AI gooners. Come up with a better insult. Fuck off if you disagree with this part. Sex workers are workers.

i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks.

I'm anarcho-communist, anti-capitalist, pro-ecology, anti-colonial, and against the notion that we need or want truly intelligent machines...but I am pro-mathematics and pro-liberatory-technology. If we had introduced these tools sustainably, as a strictly voluntary choice, as a tool for the workers and not as a cudgel to destroy people and ensure worker precarity, as a tool and not a simulation of slavery and a simulacrum of the most obnoxious parts of capitalism, at a scale and rate that the ecology could support...these tools would be beloved by the people who benefit from them, and invisible to everyone else. Put simply: the monsters (capitalists and their allies) ruined a good idea, once again.

As other users have pointed out, machine learning and its derivatives have had, and will continue to have, liberatory applications. It is unfortunate that the artificial "intelligence" community gave their work that name, and I think we should reject it.

But I refuse to give the capitalists a monopoly over the use of mathematics!

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In my experience, academic LLM use is typically models made by the researchers themselves that run on computers at the university rather than data centers. The main issues of plagiarism and environmentalism mostly don't apply. That may be changing in the current environment, though.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Google CoLab is offered to students (1 year feee, IIRC) and all my professors hopped on that bandwagon at that point.

All homework or projects were done in CoLab, and you had a pretty sizable amount of tokens to get your work done as well.

I don't blame my profs too much though, before they switched to CoLab, we would have these dumb fuck saudi royalty pieces of shit hold up class and make the professor troubleshoot why their shit wasn't working, even if they had an entire week before class to figure it out on their own.

They would do it with everything like struggling to set up their IDE. The most egregious was when the M1-chip MacBooks came out, the university said for our program we needed a windows machine with X cores and X threads using intel or AMD (mainly for virtual machines). These kids thought the requirement was optional, bought the brand new macs that couldn't run VMs, then took up multiple weeks of class time trying to troubleshoot with the professor.

He couldn't even fail them because educational institutions in Amerikkka pass anyone if they have enough money / complain enough.

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