non_burglar comments on Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Corey Doctorow isn't speaking to you, he's speaking to the many, many people who have been fooled by the ai craze.

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And often I wonder, how many people have been fooled, and how much of the enthusiasm and over the top fantasy is astroturfing by a few people incentivized to sway public opinion?

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[+] TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works -10 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

And how much of the doomerism is a campaign to keep the common man from using a revolutionary tool for, well, revolution, by alienating those most likely to do revolutionary things with it?

Once you look at the actual numbers for pollution, water usage, etc it becomes very clear that the issues are vastly overstated. So, why?

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's one for the fooled side.

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[–] TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

Yeah. I guess we'll see.

EDIT: you should go on claude's reddit and look at all of the tools people have built to keep companies and politicians accountable, to renegotiate billing, to improve their lives at the expense of capital. Or you can just go on thinking you're right!

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[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

Fuck reddit but i have a friend who automated fooa requests with claude, sent foia requests to every county in the state and has all the tracking and everything automated. Only thing he needs to do is review the emails before they get sent. It's amazing and he's bring transparency to every corner of the state using ai.

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[–] TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

Yeah I personally use it to analyze public data bases for fraud.

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 point 1 month ago*

I keep comparing the datacenter numbers to Bitcoin - only BTC, not all of crypto, is still using more electricity than AI. That may change in the future, but JFC people, where was the outrage about the global Ponzi scheme?

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