The post itself is making fun of r/LeftistForAI, but then I veer into the comments and there’s a lot of “AI would be good actually if weren’t for capitalism.”
First of all, people seem to be under the impression these so-called “AIs” can do a bunch of things they cannot do, which is really frustrating.
But my critique of the thing is so much more fundamental:
Anything worthwhile or interesting, whether it be written words, music, a game, whatever, is characterized by someone making an effort. Like they actually tried, they actually thought about it. They tried to look at the big picture as well as the details. Decisions were made about many things, should this be this way or that way? Things were tried, sometimes thrown out, sometimes kept. Someone went over it again and again.
Prompting a fucking LLM, or music generator or whatever, to just make a thing means that doesn’t happen. Why would I engage with a thing that the “creator” didn’t even bother engaging with?
Is nobody else feeling this way? They’re all just missing the forest for the trees! WTF is going on?
I think that’s directly tied to the “feed it everything and the kitchen sink” approach of the general purpose, household name AI. It’s a brute force way of training the AI, and running that analysis on such gigantic data sets inevitably means huge power draws.