Gregory's Server@bedast It’s tricky because you’re certainly right about the amount of video with no captions, and the unfair inaccessibility of that. But translation AI is exactly the same tech as “generative” or “LLM”, it is statistical modeling. It is not different in any way, including errors and fuel and water demands. It’s like vehicle engines and tires: they do a tremendous amount of good every day, including for accessibility, but they also have terrible side effects that warrant complaints.
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 @sbszine @Moss Honestly, in my opinion, any AI inference that is not able to use on-device or edge compute is not ready for mass usage by the public. There’s multiple AI and AI-adjacent tools that I use that have no reliance on cloud compute for inference or decision making. For example, my insulin pump’s operation to keep my blood glucose near target. This runs on a device the size of a pager.   Also agree on its tremendous value for a11y. There is however also the surveillance capitalism aspect. Imagine every device with a microphhone or a camera able to phone home tiny compressed and encrypted trickled of plaintext data, containing our conversations and description of social settings. Nightmarish dystopic esp. given all the dystopic stuff we already have. So in the balance there may be fundamental freedoms A11y is directly addressible need vs. long-termis externality.  @smallcircles @Moss @bedast This has nothing to do with the above post. Its also untrue. This is just useless fearmongering. Well, in one thing you are correct.. my toot is not replied where it should. It is out of context, sorry, dunno how come. As for the fearmongering.. I wish I could share your handwavyness on the danger, but thinking how technology will also be applied is nothing more than prudent. It is already astounding what is done and possible in the adtech and surveillance biz, and it is freaking Wild West territory for decades now. @Moss @v0idness @bedast @smallcircles there’s a subreddit, with the title and topic “Stallman was right”, that gathers lots of cases where a little bit of being a little bit more paranoid or cautious would have avoided lots of loss, pain and injustice, mostly derived from unjust software and hardware lockdown. @pablo_martan @Moss @bedast @smallcircles Stallman is a necrophile and a pedophile lmao, he was wrong @pablo_martan @Moss @bedast @smallcircles also stallman cares more about corporate profits than the common good of people, GNU/FSF was made for corporations not people. |
@bedast @Moss If it's done on device that should address the water issue at least.