All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking
All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking
What OpenAI and similar companies want to achieve is for us to literally let them think for us with their AI, for them to "think" the ideas for us, reason for us, make the decisions for us, and be the creative and intellectual engine of humanity. "For world domination?", no, just for profit.
They want to make us dependent on their services so they can then charge us a fortune for their regurgitated ideas. Cuz at this moment the only way to make insane amounts of profit is to take away form us all that we want and need. Our labor, our attention, our reasoning, Everything.
"Welcome, My son.
Welcome to The Machine
What did you dream?
It's alright,
We Told You What To Dream"
There is a very small subset of humans that understand why LLMs are our doom. The vast majority is riding the next hype train to hell.
We absolutely need to decapitate for profit media or we're dead.
I used chatgpt only for a month after it's release. Then never used it
That's the way đź‘Ź
Nah, they want you to believe that their product is thinking so they can get cut from gov money by pushing their products there. This way they no longer have customers, but tax payers doomed for product that works like shit.
This has been happening LONG before AI. AI is just the newest version of it
It's also not the first or only 21st century technology that is or was waaaaaaaaay overhyped.
First it was the Blockchain
Then it was the Cloud
Now it's Artificial Stupidity.
Dunno, "the cloud" is still a thing. It's basically normal operation to use cloud servers from Amazon or Microsoft or whatever. Everyone is using Google's Cloud to store their private photos and emails and appointments and contacts.
And with Google's integration of AI into search and phones, Microsoft's integration of AI into Windows and just the sheer volume of porn you can produce, AI is also here to stay, whether we like it or not. Not to mention the legitimate uses in science.
And it's not like AI is getting any worse. We can do stuff with it that was simply unthinkable merely ten years ago. Give it another ten years and it will be almost perfect.
Someone pointed out that capitalism loves subscriptions and rentals. They can sell you a widget, sure, but then they only get money once. If they can rent you a widget, then they get money forever.
AI is a path for rent skills to people. You don't need to learn to write python or learn Spanish. Just pay for LLM access. Rent the skill.
It is extremely dystopian.
Unfortunately, most people don't care about much of anything. You could tell them, with undeniable proof, that every AI search kills a puppy, and most people would be like "well puppies die anyway and I always use Google, so..."
That would be the case if corporations owned all the LLMs. However, it is possible to run open weights LLMs locally on your one hardware.
It's possible to buy music, too, but most people rent it from spotify. Most people aren't going to do the comparably hard thing of setting up their own LLM.
And even if they did run their own well tuned, ethical, LLM to write letters for them, that still leaves us with the problem of "people aren't developing core skills like writing"
Rent the Skill for sure. If this is the skill you are expected to be an expert or at least experienced you would avoid it as much as possible to avoid being dependent.
I'm a moderate user for code. LLMs are not smart, they're pattern machines. Anyone who cedes critical thinking to them without due diligence, gets what they deserve, and likely didn't really have much in the way of critical thought in the first place.
These companies are all trying to figure out how to monetize their latest juked benchmark stat and create something with actual value equivalent to the billions in investment they've thrown into processing. The industry is awash in startups dong the same thing 90000 ways. Human lust for money and power is the most nefarious thing about it all.
Yes. That is the Theil model for social engineering. To do it via suggestion in AI.
Bot responses so trends are assumed where there are none. Movements even.
Suggest one answer or idea over another with ChatBots.
No longer do you have to search through enshittified Google, just tap the AI at the top to find the answer for you.
But why did the AI choose that answer, for you?