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Need a third button, ruin society to be pressing.
Wow, it turns out “Really convincing-sounding chatbot” isn’t as all-purpose as was hoped.
I mean, legit, it’s impressive how detailed and precise (and often wrong) it can get, but impressive isn’t the same as useful.
I guess AI image generation probably has made concept art mockups quicker for some.
Even using it for concept art is a bad idea in terms of creativity and the creative process and negatively impacts the end result.
An artist will have an easier time creating concept art than AI will have giving you an accurate representation of what you envision using keywords. If they turn to AI Slop instead for creative ideas, then the project they need concept art for never had a concept in the first place, and is doomed to fail.
An artist will have an easier time creating concept art
What about a writer?
I’ve never used it myself for such purposes, but I have a friend who generously uses AI image gen for his extensive constructed world, complete with a glossary and pages which link to each other. He doesn’t have the artistic talent (or time) to make a sketch for every one of his ideas, but he finds they ‘feel’ more complete and sit more ‘fully’ in his mind with an AI gen pic for each one.
I’ve threatened him with bloody murder if he goes to a public release without commissioning real artwork, but as concept art and placeholders, I don’t think AI gen is inherently illegitimate.
People who can’t find any use for it are those who are determined to hate it at all costs.
Cooking and weight loss alone is worth $20 a month for me and that’s just scratching the surface.
This is your grave, Microsoft. Keep digging it.
It’s wild to think that ‘actually being useful’ is considered a backup plan and not the starting point. Usually, you prove the value before you use all the resources, not the other way around.
The epitome of a solution looking for a problem. Microsoft and others have dropped almost trillions into AI. With nothing to show for it.
It is useful, if you have the freedom to use it when and how you want. Not when Microsoft says so.
They’ve already lost social permission by making us hate their OS. This wording feels the same as calling lies “alternative facts.” You just rename"hatred of our OS" with “lack of social permission.” God PR speak is so annoying
It absolutely makes no sense that a bunch of corpos can do whatever the hell they like all while the common folk are forced to pay for their stupidity.
The electricity is one example. Bullshit like this which is completely useless shouldn’t be a thing - All it does is severely impact the general populace all while the borguoise is blinded by false narratives whilst living beside their fat stacks of cash.
Today in “billionaire says the most blatantly evil and deranged shit ever publicly and no one cares”…
Bananapants.
Puts that in my pocket for later
I hereby revoke the social permission.
Social permission revoked. Please set the money piles on fire.
I see ai having 1 purpose
Help blind people
Image recognition is amazingly useful for blind people
There are a ton of useful use cases for machine learning, especially in the medical field. But the AI hype that all these datacenters are being built for isn’t about molecule folding and interpreting x-rays, it’s about chatbots.
In a similar vein, machine learning is also being used to improve cochlear implants
Banana pants for scale.
I think there are valuable, narrow use cases for AI as it currently is. It should not be released into the wild willy-nilly in some scheme by greedy, irresponsible billionaires to profit from. It should be strictly regulated and controlled, perhaps allowed only to researchers who are trained to use it responsibly. I imagine it would be useful for suggesting novel solutions to problems that people would eventually come up with on their own, but LLMs would present many more now for consideration. It could act as a hallucinating muse for people who understand its limitations and know the application well enough to know what to reject out of hand as wrong and irresponsible.
They could all lay themselves off
I’m quite a fan of AI actually for only the small things. I mainly use it for stock price projections, looking for earnings report and prospecting for potential stocks to buy. I still verify the information of course. But I still want the AI bubble to pop because it is soooo overrated and I could bet on shorting the crash.
The DotCom bubble burst in 2000 and lots of nonsensical companies went under. But it did not mean that the Internet was gone. It just mean that lots of people did stupid investments.
But it did not mean that the Internet was gone.
People thought the internet was a fad too.
lose ‘social permission’
So when was that permission given?
