@tinker @remenca I don't know who I cribbed this from,...

@tinker @remenca I don't know who I cribbed this from, but the best characterization of this I've heard is that AI is fine when it's used to help creative people do tedious tasks, not when it's helping tedious people do creative tasks.

Like 21 June at 14:47 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange

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@rateexportpilot @tinker

But again, this is not AI's fault, this caused because AI is employed according to capitalist greediness. But strangely, AI criticizists rarely mention capitalism. I do not understand it.

21 June at 14:49 | Open on mastodont.cat

Tinker ☀️

@remenca @rateexportpilot - But tech is never removed from politics or its use.

So you can't meaningfully discuss tech removed from how that tech is used.

Criticisms of AI are specifically criticisms of how they're being used right now.

21 June at 14:57 | Open on infosec.exchange

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@tinker @rateexportpilot

Exactly, but the problem is that the ones that misuse AI are never mentioned. And that makes no sense, at least if you want to solve the problem.

21 June at 15:02 | Open on mastodont.cat

MaxTheFox

@rateexportpilot @tinker @remenca @nyrath Yea, I wouldn't say it's AI *as a tech*... just what uses of it are being promoted by corpos.

I definitely wouldn't mind a robot maid to do chores for me while I write. Or even a text-editing AI to fix some of the jank in my writing (I'm ESL) or catch logical errors. But I have little use for *generating* content.

Alas, generating things wholesale is easier to sell, so corpos mainly promote that. That's the real waste.

23 June at 3:14 | Open on spacey.space

MaxTheFox

@rateexportpilot @tinker @remenca @nyrath I did see some people railing against automation in general in the wake of the AI craze. And I facepalmed so hard that I felt I almost got a concussion.

23 June at 3:18 | Open on spacey.space