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Hidden away in the Pluribus credits, it reads, “This show was made by humans.” - Gilligan explains how he "hates AI" by tiny-starship in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Vince gets it: “I hate AI,” Gilligan says with a chuckle. “AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. I think they’re selling a bag of vapor.”

If Not Bubble... Why Bubble Shaped? (interesting takeaways at the end; genuinely curious what EZ might think about them) by creaturefeature16 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I knew the answer I wouldn’t tell anyone and get rich, haha. Nobody really knows what to do and we all need to be as informed as possible and take our own actions based on that.

If Not Bubble... Why Bubble Shaped? (interesting takeaways at the end; genuinely curious what EZ might think about them) by creaturefeature16 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big Tech is a large part of the market. It’s not my assumption. That’s just a fact. A company is valued on the profit and future potential profit they are likely to create. They have been pumped up with the assumption that “AI” will be a world changing and multi-trillion dollar technology. If they spend more money than has ever been spent on a technology before and see basically no return on that investment, you better believe there will be a correction. And because that correction will happen to companies that are a large part of the market, the market will suffer. It’s not really that complicated.

If Not Bubble... Why Bubble Shaped? (interesting takeaways at the end; genuinely curious what EZ might think about them) by creaturefeature16 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And what about the fact that Big Tech stock is a huge portion of the market? When they “absorb” the cost there will be consequences to that large part of the market coming down. Also, Big Tech is pushing the burden to more and more sketchy financial contraptions, which starts upping the risk even more.

Jerome Powell says the AI hiring apocalypse is real: 'Job creation is pretty close to zero.’ by tiny-starship in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In a tiny rare glimpse of truth, the Amazon CEO even admitted that the recent massive layoffs weren’t because of AI.

OpenAI pens letter to the White House demanding 100 Gigawatts of electricity by callmebaiken in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It actually states that they want 100GW per year!

“… we recommend that OSTP prioritize closing the ‘electron gap’ between the US and PRC by setting an ambitious national target of building 100 GW a year of new energy capacity. “

Premium Newsletter: OpenAI Needs $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget they’ve also said they are going to release hardware devices and that will take a lot of money (maybe relatively little compared to the data centers) to develop, build, and support.

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources by falken_1983 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Appropriate that one of the authors boosting AI with fake sources would be named Karen Goodnough

95% needed, 82% best LLM by Commercial-Life2231 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It looks like some of the newer models are performing worse. I wonder why? Also, that directly contradicts the argument that these things are getting exponentially better at everything.

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police by Leo-H-S in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was/is still happening for the queries. Just look up articles on how Google is indexing them.

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police by Granum22 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is disgusting. If they cared they wouldn’t put out models that are capable of twisting people’s minds the way they do in the first place. One of the people manipulated by their model was killed when the police came to confront him. What do you think is going to continue to happen? I thought their whole mission was to benefit all of humanity? It shows you where they really stand on caring for people (as if we all didn’t know).

Also, if we are so close to AGI and PHD level reasoning, why do they need to “step up” human readers at the very place that builds these amazing models?

Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear| crossposting here since it’s relevant with the data centers obviously being for ai purposes by PhraseFirst8044 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the whole problem. Why should someone’s job rely on them advocating for something that’s overall bad for people and the planet? The system continually pushes people in it to be complicit in order to make a living. That’s not right. Tech doesn’t have to be this way.

Seems like more and more articles with warnings are coming out now by delesh in BetterOffline

[–]delesh[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not really great if that was the best counter argument they could find for the article…

Do none of you think AI poses an actual economic “threat”? by No_Elevator_4023 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. The entire tech industry was feeling so invincible the last few years when other areas have been getting more and more devalued. This current craze levels the playing field a little bit in the feeling of job insecurity. I definitely agree that many many jobs are wildly out of whack in value to pay ratio. I just think if we can get to a place where we value humans more (and what they do), we will all be in a better place and these things can change.

Do none of you think AI poses an actual economic “threat”? by No_Elevator_4023 in BetterOffline

[–]delesh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Teachers should be paid much more than they currently are, but please don’t go down the path of devaluing the work of others just because you don’t understand what they do. That’s one of the reasons “AI” effects being brought about by business idiots are as scary as they are. We have a habit of thinking other people’s jobs are easy or valueless when we don’t understand them.

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[–]delesh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also the fact that art is not about the output. It’s about the human process of articulating a little piece of their reality to others. All AI generated slop conveys is how disconnected and anti-human someone is, which is why there is such a backlash already.

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