The underlying purpose of AI
The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill, while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.”
— Joseph Browning via Facebook (10 July 2024) cited by jeffowski on Mastodon & Twitter
It's impossible to say if AI is bad or not, like drunk driving
Every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this @dril tweet :
A famous 2014 tweet from @dril, that reads:
drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
GenAI as the One ring, forged by evil and corrupting every one who tries to use it for Good
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Is AI Profitable Yet? (NO)
Tracking the debts and profits of frontier AI companies.
Vibe Graveyard
A catalog of startup disasters, vibe-coded humiliations, and "slop"-ey executive decisions that blew up in production. Let the ghosts that haunt the Vibe Graveyard be a reminder of why real developers are worth more than your entire token budget combined.
L'histoire de Tim le Crayon
Un prof met des googly eyes à un crayon et le fait parler devant ses élèves, puis, soudain, brise le crayon en deux sous le regard choqué des ses élèves. Moralité : l'IA n'est pas douée à faire semblant d'être consciente, les humains qui l'utilisent sont excellents à projeter de la conscience sur de l'inanimé.
Georges Clooney is an actor
George Clooney is an actor.
Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.
Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.
This is a post about LLMs.
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Can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if Al does?
Every company with AI.
Vidéo parodique du comportement des entreprises qui forcent l'IA partout, et de la réaction de rejet des consommateurs. Le fait que les humoristes (ici Eleanor Morton) s'emparent de ce sujet est un indice d'à quel point ce comportement est perçu comme fréquent.
AI Needs Your Help
Site parodique expliquant qu'il faut arrêter de boire, et d'utiliser l'électricité pour que l'IA puisse avoir de l'eau et de l'énergie. Inclus des poster parodiques traduits dans plusieurs langues.
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
Parody of AI marketing pitches, but with microwaves
If genAI could really deliver anything valuable, they wouldn't be selling it to YOU
"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."
AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver parle du slop, et montre des vidéos de vrais gens qui ne réalisent pas que le slop c'est de l'IA et pas la réalité. Il évoque le pillage des artistes, et le fait que les gens qui font du slop viennent de pays pauvres