My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
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Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…
Because development of mechanical devices does not hype investors nearly as much
Put googly eyes on the robot and name it Steve. Tell investors it's intelligent. Tell them you can have sex with it. You'll have so much money.
Tell them you can have sex with it
CLANK CLANK CLANK
Crunch
YYYYEEEEEOOOOOCCCHHHH
You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters "AI".
It's one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.
Sometimes you're in the feelings phase, not the solutions phase.
I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.
I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.
Instead of just "All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies" or "All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution".
LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.
When someone can produce an LLM that doesn't use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.
Obviously, this doesn't include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.
Wait who doesn't already use Notepad++? It's even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already
Me because I use Sublime Text
Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.
TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.
I'm chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!
VSCode isn't foss (like Chrome)
People are allowed to want what they're comfortable with to not be riddled with llms
Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse's horseshit in my living room
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