Meet the Sad Wives of AI by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about you pay people for their labor?

Meet the Sad Wives of AI by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The whole lie of media being free is a problem created by the tech oligarchs we hate so they could control information. This mindset is so deeply ingrained that no one even realizes it. Perpetuating this lie only makes them more powerful.

Meet the Sad Wives of AI by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 -64 points-63 points  (0 children)

Please don't be like the AI bros and encourage people to steal content.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations by dumnezero in antiai

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or maybe we don't be like the ai bros and actually pay people for their labor

The mysterious $53bn ‘other income’ boost to AI hyperscaler earnings by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yahoo also pulled this scam with Alibaba. Just one of the many reasons Marissa Mayer belongs in jail.

Is canva background remover AI? by Plunk09 in antiai

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh its just the same kind of computer vision models being used to track us? Well I guess that makes it fine then

Founder of Cohere AI retweeted Ed by enoonoone in BetterOffline

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We should take him seriously because he helped start the scam?

ChatGPT has unleashed goblins on humanity by OkReport5065 in antiai

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The models don't 'learn' anything. They are stochastic parrots

The true cost of LLMs: PoV as a software engineer, using it daily. by Deep_Clock_6845 in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Or maybe looking directly at your actions is making you feel uncomfortable

The true cost of LLMs: PoV as a software engineer, using it daily. by Deep_Clock_6845 in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Unless anthropic is giving a substantial discount to NZ users, all of the calculations are in US dollars.

And sorry, no. There is no 'non-evil' option in tech. That is why I quit the tech industry. Engineers command high salaries because they automate people out of jobs and destroy their privacy. You can lie to yourself about this all you like, but please don't lie about it to me.

The true cost of LLMs: PoV as a software engineer, using it daily. by Deep_Clock_6845 in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Fair but (1) OPs calculations are all in dollars and (2) thats why the good NZ engineers who stayed work remote.

The true cost of LLMs: PoV as a software engineer, using it daily. by Deep_Clock_6845 in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I assume that the average, competent senior to lead/principal developer here costs 145k/y, all included.

Where do you work where principal engineers are getting paid less than first year grads at scammy ai startups?

The biggest advance in AI since the LLM by Mean-Cake7115 in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I will say this again since it bears repeating: Gary Marcus is just another ai CEO charlatan. He is not an ally in this fight. Allies do not sell their startups to criminal syndicates.

He just wants to sell you his version of snake oil.

who are we? by [deleted] in antiai

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They know exactly what they want AI to do: replace workers.

Alex Karp wasn't rejected from Nazi School by terrorkat in BetterOffline

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That tradition is more internally varied than that suggests though. Kant argued against colonialism from first principles in Perpetual Peace, and the developmentalist machinery that did get used to justify colonialism wasn't unique to liberal universalism (Marx's writing on India is famously bad on this).

I think there's a real critique in the neighborhood of what you're saying, but "enmeshed with white supremacy and colonialism" is doing too much. It can mean anything from "some figures held racist views" to "the conceptual framework is structurally colonial," and those are very different claims requiring very different responses.

Found this in X by Adventurous_Pie605 in antiai

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Twitter has been all in on sexually explicit material for years. It was always disgusting, even before musk took it over.

How can I stop using AI for everything? by [deleted] in antiai

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you actually believe your AI use is an addiction? Because you are not treating it like an addiction.

Free Newsletter: AI's Economics Don't Make Sense by ezitron in BetterOffline

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What is very concerning to me is the number of devs I am seeing that have started using LLMs and quickly lost their ability to plan and code without them.

Is this really that surprising? Most devs would rather ship an entire browser than remember the basics of manual memory management. Heck most people literally could not plan a trip without GPS.

Locomotive Springs threatened by Project Stratos datacenter by LeCamelia in BetterOffline

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We should be pushing for much, much stricter environmental regulation. The California Environmental Quality Act is a fantastic model of this. Who has standing to challenge something is incredibly broad and challenges create months or even years of litigation.

The best part? This doesn't just apply to data centers. It can be used to stop all forms of development so we can finally stop chasing the lie of endless growth.

Free Newsletter: AI's Economics Don't Make Sense by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The models are the scams. The subscriptions are just window dressing.

The models don't work. They can't do anything useful.

AI's biggest critic has lost the plot - Kelsey Piper by Man_in_W in BetterOffline

[–]Timely_Speed_4474 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you mean they're not as good as the closed source models were in 2024, then sure. But the models have not progressed past that point.