Fuck AI

That is also very true!

Make nazis afraid again

Shunning people is actually a very helpful societal tool.

If it was only done by moral people to immoral people, sure.

As it strands, it's done by popular people to different people. Which is very different from the first one.

Please, just leave that actual nerds alone.

Tech bros exploit nerds.

Actual nerds would be fighting back.

I love that shot so much. I love that he empties the can first, and then throws the whole thing in. There’s a reason this is my favorite movie.

Okay but creative expression and creating something out of nothing is effort, time, and practice.

The amount of effort, time, and practice may vary but it’s still obviously present in actual art.

Using generative ai to create content is devoid of even the slightest amount of effort put in.

Yeah, it's not so much about the difficulty or the practice, it's in the innate lack of precision that AI offers to manifest any meaningfully specific artistic vision. Whatever vision the creator might have has to be compromised to accept the closest match AI could come up with.

Creativity is one part, but knowing the artist put in tremendous effort on making it adds a crucial piece on it.

But tying effort, time or practice to art is absolute bullshit.

Agreed.

Effort, time, and practice can be important to the art itself. Filmmakers love long one-shot scenes because it's an impressive technical achievement and the end result is often made more interesting because of just how it was made. There are authors and sculptors and filmmakers and composers who created masterpieces that were only made possible by the decades of experience they've accumulated. For example, Tolkien's pre-LOTR career is a fascinating look at how he eventually acquired all the tools to be able to create a compelling narrative in a world he created.

But it's by no means required, or always better, to have the high effort or high skill option over a lower effort or lower skill artwork. Sometimes additional effort is a waste, or counterproductive. Sometimes there's beauty in the low skill or constrained or rushed option.

Art is a creative process, and any of the little factors can matter, but very few of the factors always matter. It's a "you know it when you see it" thing.

The issue with 'AI' is that it is so broad.

So we have Generative AI and other AI.

So when you talk about developing disease treatment, to the extent that AI is involved, it's not Generative AI, some other machine learning techniques, with limitations. E.g. AlphaFold is pretty good at predictions for some proteins, but will fall apart for certain classes. Useful with limitations.

When you have help diagnose, then maybe you are in generative AI territory, and maybe useful to help find medical research that is relevant the doctor could not have kept with on their own, however it shouldn't be a crutch, and getting caught up in trying to get an answer out of LLM can be just as bad as trying to get a sane answer out of it for anything else. So maybe useful if the Doctor's think it's supremely stupid but it did manage to identify actually relevant source material for an unrecognized problem. Other than LLM, then maybe the more 'traditional' AI approaches can help with things like quick check on imaging that might have otherwise been skipped (if we actually had enough quality, labeled stuff for asymptomatic problems in scans, which I don't think we do). Might be able to identify more complex patterns in bloodwork, but again, would have to be trained in nuanced ways I don't think we are equipped to do.

Prevent crime is a tough one. I don't think I've seen anything resembling success above and beyond a human understanding of crime frequencies in an area, which is generally self-evident by looking at a map of incident reports without an AI saying anything. I know they tried to predict recidivism based on data about a subject, but that was a colossal failure.

The general conundrum is that generative AI is unreliable and not generally more magical than a pretty dumb human taking a look at fairly obvious visualizations. You need use cases where you have some potential improvement that wasn't worth human attention prior. For example, hypothetically, if you needed to search for a literal needle in a haystack, an effort that human-wise wouldn't be worth it, an AI approach could help you maybe find it. It might identify a hundred straws of hay as needles and may even miss the needle entirely, but there's at least some chance it brings the problem down to practical reach of a human, so long as it's not that important if the needle can't be found anyway.

Also, mashing "the best stuff" together is not a good thing.

If I work on a Detroit assembly line, putting wheels on Cadillacs. And I have the idea to steal me a car from the factory, but so I do not get caught I take one piece a time. I figure I will have all the parts by the time I retire. Now, up to now my plan went all right

'Til we tried to put it all together one night

And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong

The transmission was a '53

And the motor turned out to be a '73

And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone

So we drilled it out so that it would fit

And with a little bit of help with an adapter kit

We had that engine runnin' just like a song

Now the headlight' was another sight

We had two on the left and one on the right

But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on

The back end looked kinda funny too

But we put it together and when we got through

Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin

About that time my wife walked out

And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts

But she opened the door and said, "Honey, take me for a spin"

So we drove up town just to get the tags

And I headed her right on down main drag

I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around

But up there at the courthouse they didn't laugh

'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff

And when they got through the title weighed 60 pounds

I got it one piece at a time

And it didn't cost me a dime

You'll know it's me when I come through your town

I'm gonna ride around in style

I'm gonna drive everybody wild

'Cause I'll have the only one there is around

Ugh! Yeah, Red Ryder

This is the Cotton Mouth

In the Psycho Billy Cadillac come on

Huh, This is the Cotton Mouth

And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there Red Ryder

You might say I went right up to the factory

And picked it up, it's cheaper that way

Ugh!, what model is it?

Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58' 59' automobile

It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67, '68, '69, '70 automobile

I think that's the Threads UI.

Capitalism commodifies everything.