I always hanged around non-mainstream forms of social media. The main issue with that is that the lack of “normies” soon transforms them in bubbles where extreme or controversial ideas are normalized.

If you say so.

I think that today some people live in an internet bubble reinforcing each other’s ideas without anyone saying “maybe you are exaggerating”. It’s true in general, not just for AI. When I talk with RL friends who are not such “internet nerds” as me, their views are much less black and white than mine… and I’m not remotely as black and white as some people here.

Back in topic, would you be that negative if AI’s issues were addressed and solved? Because they will be addressed and solved. It’s a basic business need to minimise costs (energy, water) and solve legal disputes (copyright).

First, mobile phones were extremely common in 2005 (20 years ago), even I had one, and I was literally a child.

My mistake, I meant modern smartphones.

I wonder if there were people in the 80s and 90s (when mobile phones were actually rare, but becoming more common) who felt the same pure, visceral disgust for them that I feel for LLMs.

Disgust no, but it was something for people in business, so non-business people could be ridiculed. Also consider that the equivalent of social media was the pub at the corner so those who may have had a “visceral disgust” didn’t have a chance to find others with their extreme vision. People were more moderate on average without the modern internet bubbles in which any crazy idea finds a club of supporters.

Ironically you just said that artists are wrong to be concerned.

I see your point. Assuming that in the future we will consume content as we do today, you are probably right.

My point is a bit different though: things will change. Famously in the 70s somebody didn’t see the point of having a computer at home because nobody would need the stuff that computers could do in that period. Then needs changed, new needs came, computers evolved, and now we have computers even in our pockets. With AI it will likely be the same.

with art the living standard is already effectively “maxed out”

Quite frankly, it’s not. Now “video on demand” means that you can sit on your couch and start the movie when you want. Tomorrow it may mean that you will also decide the content. Another sequel of Star Wars? Sure! A new season of Game of Thrones? No problem!

Moreover, AI is being used to create products and also in scientific research. It’s already improving our standards.

Yes but it should disappear back into the direction of many smaller websites and more privacy, not in the direction of all of that texture being totally consumed by LLM generated search results and everyone further congregating on a smaller number of sites that collect every iota of data possible.

My guess? AI will kill the cheap stuff, but internet will not change much overall and surely not rapidly.

maybe it’s cause the models are beginning to consume their own slop.

That’s going to be a huge issue indeed because synthetic data contains bias and it’s proven that produced biased models.

Although you’re not wrong, you should consider that what’s normal for you today fucked somebody’s job yesterday.

Small time artists are fucked

Textile workers have been fucked by machines, same for anyone working with horses was fucked by cars, and mass production fucked more of less any job that existed before… or not? Those jobs still exist today, they are just less prevalent and often a well paid niche.

Internet search is fucked.

The internet we know today with SEO and ads-driven businesses had been around for 20-30 years max and it is now a dumpster on fire with all the user tracking that has been put in place. We won’t miss it should it disappear.

Absolutely correct.

One random example: where I work, CVs are being filtered by an AI before they are opened by a human reducing the volume to a 20% of potentially good candidates. In that 20% there is always someone to hire, so it doesn’t matter if a good candidate is lost in the AI filter. Failing to optimize the CV for AI literally means being left behind.

Hive mind.

It is unimaginative

Can you make an example of something 100% original that was not inspired by anything that came before?

The short answer is copyright theft, energy consumption, and job displacement. While all those issues are 100% correct, there is also a huge unspoken factor of “you must be against it otherwise you are a brainwashed idiot” because, let’s be honest, the hive mind is real.

Most of the modern no-AI luddites fail to understand that AI has been around for decades in various forms and this is just the last, most visible incarnation. It is here to stay, and it will grow as well. At this rate of adoption, in a few years it will be as normal as having a mobile phone (they weren’t around only 20 years ago).

My humble prediction is that all the concerns around AI will be addressed with time by better hardware, better cooling mechanism, better energy production, different jobs that will leverage AI instead of competing with it, and surely also the copyright will find a new balance (just like MP3, Napster, and Spotify did not kill the music industry).

By the way, AI doesn’t spy on you. An AI model is immutable once it’s trained. The software using the model is spying on you, but that’s true for any scumbag-driven software you use. It is essentially the same typing your secrets in Google Docs or in ChatGPT.

.ml and shit talking communism.

Actually the worst appears to be hexbear that I blocked entirely.

Quite frankly I don’t care much. I actually enjoy being exposed to different views, and I can ignore extremism quite easily.

It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of “experts” absolutely sure that the future is communism and “stupid you brainwashed fool” if you don’t get it.

Apple has an history of resisting surveillance and that’s true. However, it’s subject to regulations, they lower security in some countries (see UK), it’s based in the US which is definitely not encouraging, and… it may just end becoming like Google in the span of a few years.

That said, I prefer Apple to most of the other brands.

Maybe now they have a chance to demonstrate that these filters don’t work.

Plus: shady managing of the network connections that could lead to mass surveillance, poor E2E encryption, and now a partnership with Musk.

Yes. It works.

Just the regular browser. It just works.