• Brett@feddit.org
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    25 days ago

    “AI vegans”

    ffs, just publish an article with a single clownemoji for the same effect.

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      The big corporations desperately want AI to be popular because they’ve thrown literally insane amounts of money at it and still don’t know how to monetize it.

      There’s going to be a huge push to make it seem like everyone loves it and it’s weird not to use it constantly

      It’s going to go horribly and come off like that “fellow kids” meme, exactly like this headline

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          Ironically enough they’re the same trolls as the vegan drama.

          They don’t care about the topic, they just want to troll and they’ve been up/device banned from all the major social media, so they’ll always be here

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        24 days ago

        A good example were those Apple AI ads. So cringe. Google’s ads aren’t much better but at least Gemini works.

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        still don’t know how to monetize it.

        They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023. There’s also huge R&D potential in fields like genetic research and medicine.

        Profitability is another question though. Likely we’re waiting for advances in cold fusion or late stage renewable development for energy costs to go down enough.

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            Yes my second paragraph alleged as much. Not that you read that far of course.

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          AI having to wait on cold fusion for profitability is one of the funnier concepts I’ve heard today, thank you.

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          People pay for the “premium” because they believe the makers who said it can increase their profitability and make them money.

          My employer keeps trying to shove it down our throats too.

          They’re desperate to find anyway to make it reduce work, be cause they’ve already paid for it under the assumption it would let them cut staffing

          Now they’re finding out they got swindled, do you think they’ll re-up on AI?

          The AI companies offloaded how to monetize it to consumers and scared them into being left behind unless they discovered how to use it.

          It’s a short term bubble.

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        25 days ago

        AI in this form has been used for like 15 years, to generate trillions of dollars worth of value. I think you’re just talking specifically about ChatGPT and consumer-facing LLMs.

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    25 days ago

    It’s quite common for me to be annoyed, angry, or upset at a headline writer. Then there’s the feeling I got reading “Meet the AI vegans.”

    Whole new level.

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    24 days ago

    Abstaining from a thing does not make one a vegan. That’s not how any of this works.

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      It’s like how they put the word gate after something to say that it is a scandal involving the former word.

      Somesort of political scandal involving road maintenance? Oh yes well that’s roadgate then. Even though the Watergate scandal was in fact it scandal in the watergate hotel, rather than a scandal about water.

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        Someday we’ll have Gate gate, or maybe even another scandal at the Watergate complex, so Watergate gate.

        I can’t wait!

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      I mean, abstaining from animal products makes someone a vegan, right? If you abstain from AI products then it would follow that you’re an “AI vegan”.

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        It follows, but it is also feels like click bait.

        A definition of vegan is:

        A vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses no products derived from animals, as fur or leather.

        There is an environmental parallel, and it made me read the article to see what they were on about – so I guess it worked.

        To be clear, I am very pro environment (I live in it); I just feel like this is crossing the streams of related, but completely different movements, isn’t particularly helpful.

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        Abstaining from animal products is just vegetarian. Veganism requires an extremely strict adherence to a very specific set of rules concerning animals.

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      They are “journalism vegans”. They are choosing to abstain from actual journalism for clickbaiting, herd mentality, and personal lack of skill reasons.

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        It was short lived. It is often called the Grauniad because of poor quality typos etc. historically.

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          Got a source for the Guardian no longer using AGI? Given a ‘desperately trying to convince people that AI is cool’ title like this, discontinued use seems highly unlikely

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            I was referring to their credibility being short lived. I have no idea of their AGI usage. I’m still annoyed that when the UK Labour party had a left wing leader, they spent a lot of effort discrediting him. They’re usually crap on Israel/Palestine and have been historically pro-zionist on the UK site.

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    i wonder if they came up with such term to mock those who dont want to use ai and possibly actual vegans on the side.

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      They use to mock us with “Luddite” but the Technologists looked into that actual movement (rather than the caricature) and agreed, “yeah sure, like them”. That took the sting out of the pejorative, so they picked another mocked group to connect it with.

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      I just don’t use it because it’s shit and doesn’t do anything I need any better than I can do myself in the same time.

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        “Hey why don’t you use this tool you don’t need? It does the thing worse than you do and also fucks up the planet in the process!”

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    I’m choosing to abstain because it’s shit. The ethical things are just a bonus. It produces inaccurate information and bland soulless images.

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    What bullshif us this?

    A. I vegan is a nonesence title.

    How about " people who don’t want the world to end even faster tell corps to fuck off"

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      I also try, but it is invoked on my behalf. For instance, at work if I make a pull request now multiple AI bots are summoned to give an analysis of my code changes. It’s extremely verbose and annoying, and I think basically nobody reads it because all it does is just spam the comments section with way too much text.

      I vehemently hate OpenAI, ChatGPT, et al. At least it’s funny when it summarizes my changes as significant improvements that improve code maintainability. I guess getting glazed by the bot in a way my manager can see is helpful to my career? Though honestly he probably also doesn’t read that shit. So glad all this energy is wasted for nothing.

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      I hate this attitude from people who don’t even try things before saying they are not missing out. Try AI! You have to experience the head bashing, head scratching time sink, after which you do a manual search anyways. It is a marvellous wonder how bad modern “cutting edge” tech can be.

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        They may have come to this decision through experience.

        Having used it a bit, I find it’s like someone a bit stupid with a lot of time on their hands, but no knowledge, saying “I’ll learn everything you need to know from Google and write you an answer”, just speeded up a lot. And just as frustrating.

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      Just wait until you have an employer tell you that you need to write up a summary of how you used AI in your every day activities to save 25% of your day to work on other activities.

      You’ll use AI to write the summary and then soon discover that your employer is a tool and is paying more than double your salary to keep that AI around to do literally nothinf 98% of the time it exists.

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    I applaud folks like this - they make a choice and stick with it. No “I’ll never use AI to generate art but I vibe code to save time” hypocrisy. No “I use it to help me with maths, but I’d never use it to steal artistic work”.

    Just straight up “it is an environmental hazard, it is unethical, not engaging”. Should be called “AI Ethicists” rather than “AI Vegans”.

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      Starting it with “AI” is already misleading. Whatever the noun is should be preceded by “Anti-AI.”

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        I dunno, the use of AI Ethicist fits as they’re not against the concept of generative AI as a whole, they’re against unethical generative AI (in terms of stolen training data and environmental harm).

        If the world transitioned to a post-IP (intellectual property) society (as we need to), with AI eating less power, then AI Ethicists are unlikely to object.

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        I’ve personally sworn off writing code with any if statements or static values, my webpages hallucinate differently on each refresh 💟

        My desktop is a bit allergic to any art made my humans

        — A.I. Vegan

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      Yup, these things are still garbage for >90% of all applications people are jamming them into. Breathed a sigh of relief when my company CEO said he doesn’t see us using AI for more than can center routing for at least the next several years.

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      Every last bit of it? What is your stance on use of AI for tasks such as data analysis of massive sets for scientific research, or procedural automation of massive operations?

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        AI doesn’t exist, machine learning algorithms can be useful and are used with no controversy, generative bullshit is basically useless.

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          You’re using a lot of very loosely defined terms with a lot of certainty. Machine learning is AI, we just usually apply it to the more simple versions of it. Where do you personally draw the line? I fully understand the plethora of risks, downsides, and injustices that can potentially be involved in the matter, but I legitimately don’t understand the extremist level hatred that some people express to anything that could hold the title of AI. To me, it parallels with someone saying that they hate ionizing radiation. Frequently, it’s also bad, and your entirely reasonable to try and avoid it on a daily basis, but it also has many uses that are beneficial and life-saving.

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    Im also a gun vegan, a car vegan, a facebook vegan, an exercise vegan (unfortunately), a windows vegan, … just not actual vegan.

    I feel like thats a bad way to use the word vegan.

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      Yeah… It’s just abstaining from something. Veganism didn’t invent that. Dumb headline

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      It’s an incredibly stupid phrase. Like, mind-numbingly stupid. “I’m not gluten free, I’m a bread vegan.” Idiotic