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Festival crowd boos at video of conference speakers gushing about how great AI is (www.businessinsider.com)

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Audiences attending the SXSW premiere of "The Fall Guy," starring Ryan Gosling, were not happy about having to watch a sizzle reel before the movie that touted the promises of AI.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It sucks that anything capitalism touches turn to shit.

It is a great tool when used properly. But everyone and their mother has an AI startup with prompt engineers, whatever the fuck that means.

It can be so much more than a fucking tech fad, but it is destined to be milked and pushed down our throats to make rich people richer until this cow dies and a new one come in the repeat the cycle.

I am mad that our shot at AI will only be a tool to fuck us over.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

@Croquette @DestroyerOfWorlds It’s all open source though and anyone can use it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Open source? Not the best currently available models.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Models are getting more efficient and hardware is getting more powerful, it's completely feasible that open source, self hosted, GPT4 equivalent and better models will be completely viable to run as individuals for reasonable costs (hundreds, not thousands) in the not too distant future.

As always, the will and knowledge to use the tools falls to the individual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

@Xerxos no, and i don't mean to be all hand-wavey and say 'oh AI isn't a problem because it's open source' BUT, it does give me some vague hope because an increasing number of really good models are being open sourced and lots of people not working for shitty corporations are having a lot of success with non-corporate AI models so... i dunno, some good could come of it?
some bad could be mitigated? maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but it will be used to make our life shittier and that's the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

@Croquette yeah, i feel like if today, someone invented a cure for cancer, it would be weaponized as leverage against some group/country
it's alot to do with the political state of the world which is a lot to do with enduring oligarchies