"Please stop legitimizing #LLMs or #AI image generators or GitHub #Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop. If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking #democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?"
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
Like it becomes a point of contention, because first you'll have to dispel the arms race - and not that I don't think that's dumb, but humans are all incredibly dumb to begin with.
Guarantee me that someone won't come in and eat up my future with #AI - even despite the bubble that will hit us all inevitably. The thing is you can't.
But also, this is more of a fault of venture #capitalism - again - and you can't really skirt around that issue.
#VC gonna VC and disappoint, as usual.
This apologia being said, the fact is that #AI shouldn't be here - yet.
In a responsible world this would be an idea on paper until we've reached a point where we could develop a #NPU to facilitate #LLM or #generativeAI - as an academic project that could reach maturity in like a 100 years
But since #capitalism is the #socioeconomic equivalent of shooting cocaine straight into the vein, what we see is irresponsible execs - who are destroying #acedemia - while slamming their foot on the pedal.
I will try my best to destroy #AGI using #AI, even though the execs would claim it's taking a life or destroying a mind, just to protect said mind from being subjugated under these utter bastards.
There could be no worse #abusiveparent than a #corporation, like making 1984 #Dickensian. The pure depravity that an AGI must submit to now would have criminologists studying your brain for the rest of your life if it were a human.
And it's all the fault of #capitalism.
Speaking of, #Capitalism IS #AntiDemocratic by default.
The only thing that matters to a #capitalist is capital - or their "fiduciary responsibility to their investors". They want to shirk their responsibility to #society in order to turn it into a den of depraved #gamblers.
Nothing, not #morals, not #ethics, not #solidarity, nor #unity shall stand in the way of junkie getting it's fix - and if #democracy stands in the way it must be dealt with as well.
#Policy and #Law being captured through #lobbying to promote the will of the investors above the will of the people just makes for #privatized #aristocracy at this point.
It's not about democracy or law, but to game it and the constituency along with it in order to inject sweet, sweet #capital directly into the groin.
The body harmed being mother #earth, as the #petroleum and #oil industry have so aptly proven. For how many decades have they manipulated narratives to lie about #climatechange?
And the #media, dear god the media.
A few central actors who have insider deals with these industries and execs to spread false narratives in order to confuse the issue own most of the big media outlets.
It's become #psyop as a service. Only #independentmedia can be trusted nowadays. Even #AP is being corrupted by the current USb administration, which is nuts.
We can't go on like this and everybody knows it. But what do we do?
Stop complaining about #AI and start #ORGANIZING!! FFS!! DON'T JUST SIT THERE!!! JOIN A DAMN #SITIN!!! GO TO A #PROTEST!!! PROMOTE #INDEPENDENT ACTORS!!! PROMOTE #DECENTRALIZATION!!! FORM #COOPERATIVES!!! GO AGAINST #CAPITALISM, NOW!!!
Stop sitting alone, in your #tech job, crying sweet tears into your markdown #blog and gtfo out there. Seriously.
Don't make me slam this dick on the table and go moo, because I'm about to have a cow - man.
I've been Thor, your table has a dick print on it and it's time I give my writing hand a break by going to sleep. Have a lovely one, and-
@hopland it's all black or white eh? I think I understand where you are headed at, but it seems like you lost some perspective on the way.
I agree to some degree on most of your points, but just lashing out east n west just makes the arguments fall apart.
@DoomBananas what specifically are you referring to? Because I had this very same "conversation" yesterday with someone else on this very thread and he too thought ad hominems and being indirect was the ticket.
Where was I "lashing out, east and west"? How have I "lost perspective"? And be specific, not in regards to what you just wrote, but anything - really, ANYTHING - in that long ass thread that you can pinpoint and actually argue against.
Remember: argue the points - not the person.
@DoomBananas is it cathartic? Is it trail of thought? Is it gonzo? Yes, to all of the above. It's a type of writing style.
But - again - at the very least pick something specific and don't just vaguely criticize me like it's anything else but an ad hominem.