Post B7dyvyeub49S6ZJiKW by ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world
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 (DIR) Post #B7dysQr1pD7iORIHfk by benroyce@mastodon.social
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       @emilymbender i despise AI because of its energy waste, its abuse of source material it rips off without attribution, and how it concentrates power with these amoral techbros who can use it for all sorts of malicious goalsbut i always wondered if AI could be a standalone thing, something you ran yourself, at home, so there is no exposure to manipulative outside agendas, if i would have the same objections. assuming sane power usage and respect for creators. and assuming complete privacy
       
 (DIR) Post #B7dysR82nwjbFDFsC8 by nzlemming@mastodon.nz
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       @benroyce You can do this now, with the open source models that run on a local machine. But while they're freely released, they were still trained much the same way at source.  @emilymbender
       
 (DIR) Post #B7dysRLryXnFw5iukC by benroyce@mastodon.social
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       @nzlemming @emilymbender yeah that's a problem
       
 (DIR) Post #B7dysRa37p8Ue4MEqW by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       @benroyce @nzlemming @emilymbender Yup, this seems to be the catch, when you ask people where their training data comes from they either don't know or won't say.Also, even if they somehow used entirely home-made ethically-obtained training data, it is still destroying the user's brain through lack of mental exercise and burning the planet as the "training" process uses a lot of energy.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7dysRnAL3czIkUiI4 by benroyce@mastodon.social
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       @FediThing @nzlemming @emilymbenderyupthat's the dominant topic with #AI:it makes us dumbwe talk of extending people's abilities with AInowe lose abilities (or never gain them)our brain atrophies like unused muscledependent upon a piece of silicon that doesn't care at best. at worst, with corporate AI, works agendas on us, and, not distant scifi but soon, abusive psyops on uscages on our brain that know us better than we know ourselves, and our brains too flabby to even notice
       
 (DIR) Post #B7dysS4BJnEs9WSIoS by Beltliner403@mastodon.online
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       @benroyce @FediThing @nzlemming @emilymbender The vibe around #ArtificialIdiocy reminds me of that old joke —“Come the revolution, Misha, you will eat strawberries and cream!”“But Grisha, I don’t *like* strawberries and cream.”“Come the revolution, Misha…you *will* eat strawberries and cream.”
       
 (DIR) Post #B7dyvyeub49S6ZJiKW by ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world
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       @benroyce @FediThing @nzlemming @emilymbender Exactly. When Sam Altman said he wanted intelligence to be a commodity that people rent off him, he didn't mean "intelligence" in the sense that police and security services mean it. He meant our ability to think.He and these other Silicon Valley freaks envision a future in which everyone is utterly dependent on their agents to accomplish any task that makes cognitive demands on us. The tech broligarchy want to infantilize and enslave all humanity.