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Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at the end of
I know this sounds pretentious (which is quite ironic), but this is something I've noticed about the internet. You never read about what someone does, only what they say. You hear politicians claim that they'll fix the economy, or celebrities make speeches about what they feel like, or what "message" a fictional movie has being discussed over and over, but none of that matters, because it's all saying and no doing!
https://archive.is/aQtDc
I don't know how else to put it. Despite being born in the 2000's, I've seen incredibly old laws still being on the books, enacted by robber-barons, and I have no faith that the law is a good thing. However, I unfortunately am diagnosed with PDD-NOS Autism and ADHD, so I need help with time management, and that would get inthe way of piracy, making unauthorized fangames, &c.
If this doesn't belong here, please tell me.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/research-shows-more-than-80-of-ai-projects-fail-wasting-billions-of-dollars-in-capital-and-resources-report
The AI industry is fraught with failure.
https://stardropsmh.github.io/sonic-and-the-fallen-star/
The Official Website for the Sonic and The Fallen Star Fangame
I recieved a comment from someone telling me that one of my posts had bad definitions, and he was right. Despite the massive problems caused by AI, it's important to specify what an AI does, how it is used, for what reason, and what type of people use it. I suppose judges might already be doing this, but regardless, an AI used by one dude for personal entertainment is different than a program used by a megacorporation to replace human workers, and must be judged differently. Here, then, are some specifications. If these are still too vague, please help with them.
a. What does the AI do?
b. What is the AI used for?
c. Who is using the AI?
This was really tough to do. I'll see if I can touch up on it myself. As of now, Lemmy cannot do lists in lists.
I was originally going to put this into the Log, but it might be unwelcome.
You want a way to rattle image-generation Boosters? Most of the arguments they use can be used to defend Googling an image and putting a filter over it.
AI Boosters use a standard motte-and-bailey doctrine to assert the right to steal art and put it into a dataset, yet entice people to buy their generated images. When Boosters want people to invest in AI, they occupy the bailey and say that "AI is faster and better than drawing by hand". When Boosters are confronted with their ethical problems, as shown above, they retreat into the motte and complain that "it takes tons of time and work to make the AI do what I want". Remember this when you find Boosters. Or don't, since I doubt the sites where they lurk are worth your time.
First of all, this c has absolutely skyrocketed in the coming years. I made it in a panic. (I was worried that AI would bedazzle everyone, everyone would be onboard, and it would ruin everything forever.) Although a lot of what I feared didn't happen, I'm still glad to have made this thing.
I don't know if this sub is going to be brigaded by Boosters like it was early on, or if they'll try some sort of cyberattack, but the reason I appointed so many moderators was because I was worried that Boosters would come in, try some bad-faith tactics, and screw over any resistance against AI.
I now realize that having a pro-AI "camp" is misleading. Adopting any new technology must prove itself to be worth its cost. There have been patents, like Flexplay, or Tetraethyllead, that are not worth their cost. What Boosters are saying is that, if you oppose the use of Flexplay of Tetraethyllead, you are in an "anti-Flexplay" or "anti-Tetraethyllead" camp, and if you can't come up with a convincing argument against it, you should just accept the technology.
Since it's been a while since my last log, and the c has changed, I don't think this will be brigaded.