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submitted 1 day ago by trompete@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

The post itself is making fun of r/LeftistForAI, but then I veer into the comments and there's a lot of "AI would be good actually if weren't for capitalism."

First of all, people seem to be under the impression these so-called "AIs" can do a bunch of things they cannot do, which is really frustrating.

But my critique of the thing is so much more fundamental:

Anything worthwhile or interesting, whether it be written words, music, a game, whatever, is characterized by someone making an effort. Like they actually tried, they actually thought about it. They tried to look at the big picture as well as the details. Decisions were made about many things, should this be this way or that way? Things were tried, sometimes thrown out, sometimes kept. Someone went over it again and again.

Prompting a fucking LLM, or music generator or whatever, to just make a thing means that doesn't happen. Why would I engage with a thing that the "creator" didn't even bother engaging with?

Is nobody else feeling this way? They're all just missing the forest for the trees! WTF is going on?

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[-] Krem@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People always get upset when I talk about my AI usage as a teacher, but I teach ELL high school students and any given year I have at least three languages in a hour, not to mention different combinations of at least three languages in an hour. Translating material is way easier with LLMs. My school bought me a better MacBook so I can use offline local models now. My official stance is push for offline local model adoption and data centers in space.

i must be fatally irony poisoned because this to me is almost indistinguishable from a "bit", but apparently it's a real person's real opinion

oh no there's worse stuff

The left cares so much about AI because leftists are mainly in the Professional Managerial class stratum of the working class who are most under threat by AI. (intellectual labourers and shit). It's a class and position defensive reflex, not an actual analysis. Telling them this makes them very upset because it exposes the self interest.

It's also why the more manual labouring working classes, often conservatives, don't care about AI and even enjoy it, it doesn't threaten their work.

It's only a class analysis of Marxism that can rise above it and see that it's a progressive technology being abused for profit not people.

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One interesting thing is it can reconstruct ancient languages by pattern matching. Hello fully reconstructed Proto Indo European.

fuck you it can. stembros can't comprehend language or history, it's all math and puzzles

Genuinely, anti AI leftists are just reactionary luddites without a Marxist class analysis

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A peak inside the minds of decrepit ex-Chapoids 10 years later. Who thought they were gonna get some social democracy bennies. May Brooklyn burn!

[-] trompete@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah that one takes the cake.

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