(edit: I kind of regret posting this image for reasons described below, but I'll leave it up for context.)

Generative AI can have a lot of great uses to detect and prevent unethical content online. Particularly CSAM. Some forms of it are already used to protect some of your favourite lemmy instances.

If you're only looking at the tools everybody can get a hold of, I agree. I think if you look a bit further, you will find medical diagnostics that can hopefully top human detection scores and that's worth pursuing as well.

I don't see any good reason why the general public needs to have access to most of the models today. Most people just play around with it - and I don't see the value there. When we get the final tally, we will have made the climate crisis worse and caused droughts with all the thirsty data center consumption. All so Alexa can remember what you said two queries ago and you can animate your childhood teddy in the Ghibli style.

This is patently incorrect. Using it to identify and remove NSFL content, which would otherwise require humans to be psychologically tortured in order to review, is also an ethical use-case.

It's been helpful in summarizing YouTube transcripts for the video alt text

Well you just gonna use it but maybe not tell people who you want upvotes from about it or something, it’s not a huge problem

The problem isn’t “is it moral” the problem is “is it good?” And it just isn’t that good.

I have like 10 game ideas that I want to play myself, waiting for when it finally gets good.

For example a Silo simulation game like dwarf fortress adventure mode story generator with 1000 residents of a silo all interacting with each other and causing periodic events like rebellions and such. Another one is Star Wars galaxy 2D simulation with all the trading and ships and sort of sid meyers pirates feel. Basically once there is a franchise I like I want to create a game about it, sandbox style and interact with the world within

I don’t really have time or patience to dig over through quirks of unity ecs dots though. Not yet anyway. Maybe it is even more of ecs problem in itself because it is such a construction site with tons of depreciated and in-2-months “outdated” features. It needs to be finished by unity first I guess