The punchline is at the end:
For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.
Some shit that a new grad in journalism would’ve been doing
Frankly, I don’t see the problem with using AI for styling text.
Well, you are kind of Hexbear’s resident LLM evangelist.
I think there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made, but most of the problems stem from our fucked up economic system as opposed the tech itself. In my view, people end up focusing too much on the wrong thing here.
The first chatbot (ELIZA) creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, wrote a book called Computer Power and Human Reason where he argued that we shouldn’t be so ready to accept technology that have extremely
nativenegative moral and ethical consequence. It’s a good book and very relevant for something written in 1976.Frankly, I don’t see what these extremely negative moral and ethical consequences that are inherent to the technology itself are.
It’s extremely expensive to use this tech and the benefits are negative. It’s only being propped up because capital thinks it can destroy labor with it. Also, these models are being used to put enormous surveillance into the hands of capital.
That hasn’t been true for a long time now. You can literally run models on your laptop. Meanwhile, AI being used for nefarious purposes by capital is a problem of being ruled over by capitalists not of technology. Do you suggest we just stop all technological progress because technology will be inevitably abused by capitalists?
There’s all the psychosis for one, and that reliance on them makes people stupid
That’s a problem inherent in the fucked up society capitalism built that alienates people. Has fuck all to do with AI.
native?
I don’t see what’s wrong with the Baby Crushing Machine, only with how people use it
Capitalism is the baby crushing machine direct your anger there.
Its already shown that people who rely on LLM’s quickly lose any literary and critical thinking skills they had. And they aren’t as easy to get back as to lose them. Frankly, I don’t see whats so hard about writing, but maybe thats me?
I’ve seen these studies as well, but some people never had good literary skills. Not everybody is a good communicator, and not everyone has time to invest in developing these skills. If a tool can help with that I don’t really see a problem here.
but some people never had good literary skills
This is a fault of our shitty societies and what they value, not some kind of biological essentialism. And people don’t have the time to invest in these skills because of our shitty society and what it values. “Ai” only makes people worse at these basic skills that our ancestors fought and died for us to have. And people are willingly giving them up. I don’t think as leftists we should be applauding technology designed to make us more ignorant.
I mean nobody has time to invest in being good at everything. Everybody has specific things they find more interesting than others. It’s not just about our shitty society preventing people from investing in these skills. I fundamentally disagree with the notion that technology makes us more ignorant.
styling
extruding
This technology doesn’t actually work though, and all these companies are just falling for hype… right?
If it works 10% as well and only costs 5% as much as an employee, they’ll still use it because that’s technically making them money.
In the first part of Capital, Marx among other things described how and why machines replaced skilled artisanal weavers work. The resemblance is so uncanny it’s so scary.
Therefore the consequences are already predictable. Mass poverty, displacement of well paid jobs by children and women, so today by dirt cheap third world work.
Maybe Liberals will finally Vote hard enough in 2028 and save all of the remaining 100 jobs in America.
Tech will probably not be replaced by AI but it will be outsourced to India(mostly).
AI = Actually Indians, every time
The AI is outsourced itself to India!
AI causes unemployment. Got it. We should ban it then.
Capitalism causes unemployment.
Got it. We should ban it then.
We really should.
I’m gonna lose my job to an illiterate computer
MFW porky’s so cheap he thinks it’s too costly to even pay people in experience.
Trump being the Hoover analog is kinda funny.
