Even for people who generally like the function of AI (which seem to be fairly rare here) the absolutely obscene climate impact and implications for peopes jobs and livelihoods, privacy breaches, and general internet enshittification is surely reason enough to be against it.
It has its uses but it feels like more of a 10-20% productivity boost when used effectively, not the 500%, “lets have openclaw replace my whole company!” kind of BS being pushed by AI companies.
If it is a productivity boost for you, it is at the cost of someone else who will have to proofread and test everything you do. LLMs (and genAI) are useless.
The jobs thing i don’t understand, its the distribution of productivity gains that’s the issue, why we keep voting for the same politicians ensuring it goes to the wealthy is the real mystery.
Oh, I absolutely agree. But currently, the people in charge of making those decisions have demonstrated moral bankruptcy and will absolutely ensure the productivity gains funnel to the top. Until that changes, AI impact on jobs will likely be devastating.
And I’m all for changing it. It’s just going to be a long and/or violent process.
Productivity gains are not across the board, and is a subject of scrutiny and debate.
But what AI really has done is basically redistributed American wealth to a smaller group of people, and therefore a smaller pool for the US politicians to focus on satisfying. If there is an AI bubble pop, what market watchers suspect is there’s actually no other American sector to mitigate what is otherwise a recession.
That I why I like small, specialized, locally hosted AI. Runs acceptably fast and quite on my gaming PC, it’s private, and I can give it knowledge is small doses in specific topics and projects.
Even for people who generally like the function of AI (which seem to be fairly rare here) the absolutely obscene climate impact and implications for peopes jobs and livelihoods, privacy breaches, and general internet enshittification is surely reason enough to be against it.
It has its uses but it feels like more of a 10-20% productivity boost when used effectively, not the 500%, “lets have openclaw replace my whole company!” kind of BS being pushed by AI companies.
If it is a productivity boost for you, it is at the cost of someone else who will have to proofread and test everything you do. LLMs (and genAI) are useless.
The jobs thing i don’t understand, its the distribution of productivity gains that’s the issue, why we keep voting for the same politicians ensuring it goes to the wealthy is the real mystery.
Oh, I absolutely agree. But currently, the people in charge of making those decisions have demonstrated moral bankruptcy and will absolutely ensure the productivity gains funnel to the top. Until that changes, AI impact on jobs will likely be devastating.
And I’m all for changing it. It’s just going to be a long and/or violent process.
Productivity gains are not across the board, and is a subject of scrutiny and debate.
But what AI really has done is basically redistributed American wealth to a smaller group of people, and therefore a smaller pool for the US politicians to focus on satisfying. If there is an AI bubble pop, what market watchers suspect is there’s actually no other American sector to mitigate what is otherwise a recession.
That I why I like small, specialized, locally hosted AI. Runs acceptably fast and quite on my gaming PC, it’s private, and I can give it knowledge is small doses in specific topics and projects.