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i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks. this happened on lemmy but i saw people getting downvoted for saying that genAI in its current state is harmful to the environment. i saw the old bullshit of how ”i use AI for art because i cant draw”, it was crazy. i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much. so can everybody pls affirm you dont support that crap.

another user straight up admitted that they use AI as a friend and to gn to... i dont care how much we have in common ideologically, i cant support you gning to chatgpt and thinking its your friend...

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[–] AltMaarri@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The maximalist "anything using any kind of neural network math is exactly the same and is equally bad in all cases" position is nonsensical

Does that position exist outside of twitter, though ?

When GenAI-critical people say "AI", they almost universally mean LLMs (and sometimes also diffusion models / multimodal ones). And in fact they usually mean "LLMs as sold by the VCs". LLMs themselves do have a few legitimate use cases (for perhaps 0.1% of the target population they're currently being sold to, but still).

They do not mean machine learning in general - which is awesome, extremely useful, and has been in widespread use for decades now. Including traditional neural-network-based classifiers.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

Does that position exist outside of twitter, though ?

It's the standard reddit position and you can even see it in this thread. Like some people genuinely do not understand that there are categorical differences between the shitty chatbots making everything worse at scale just to make things worse and some dork that's just being annoying by posting the weird dream his computer had as if anyone gives a shit.