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…
There’s a couple Hexbear users that are into it, but they tend to focus on the open models and running them locally. Overall consensus here is that gen AI is very bad.
I recognize the uses of it when implemented in some beneficial way, but understand the need to remove the enormous negative externalities. A sort of anti-luddite yet still sympathetic to hating the machine kind of person. I hope the bubble bursting destroys its use as a fact checker and fake-friend though. That shit is way worse than useless and the externalities are the greatest in those realms.
The return of a good search engine is the only thing that will destroy it as a fact checker.
It’s still wild to me that Google had something good going then it just stopped working
There wasn’t enough engagement with a good search engine, so they made it worse. Gotta get those engagement numbers up.
Capitalism is when you make a thing stop working. And the more the trust decays the more capitalist it is. And if the only reason people work is the threat of violence, that’s fascism!