Combating artificial intelligence with natural stupidity.

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  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlDrIvE cHaNgE tOgEtHeR
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    2 days ago

    If it’s entirely up to us to provide human rights to ourselves, and the huge proportion of people who can’t do that and therefore don’t have a supposed human right are brushed off as personal failures rather than systemic, then sure seems like human rights don’t actually mean anything.













  • Saw the title, was about to waste at least half an hour giving this my “quote most the article and lose my mind commentating on it” treatment, but it’s actually pretty reasonably written. Touché, Global News.

    I would still have liked to see them go into more detail on what the term “sugar” means chemically, though. To ensure readers aren’t confusing it for straight table sugar, AKA sucrose. That’s always a pitfall when terms have both a common language or layperson meaning and a more rigorous scientific meaning.


  • You can run a local LLM capable of assisting in software development for less energy than running a AAA video game. I’m not denying the environmental impact of the current AI landscape, but I kind of disagree that it’s intrinsic to LLMs as a whole, I think it’s more a symptom of capitalism and its disregard for sustainability causing everything it touches to have a high environmental cost.

    Also, nearly all modern computing has high environmental costs, certainly all cloud computing. I think instead of focusing on AI only, it would be more helpful to engage in a broader discussion on how computing can be made more energy efficient as a whole, and do proper cost benefit analysis of all things we use computers for, including but not limited to LLMs. We may well still conclude from that process that we need to stop using LLMs, in which case we should.

    If you’re against LLM use on environmental grounds (which I’m not disagreeing with), I submit to you that we should take the idea even further and things like gaming, video streaming, high frequency trading, social media, and any other nonessential computing should be on the same chopping block for the same reason. Applications of computing that we also use at scale with high environmental impacts, but that have been normalised and practically seen as a right by many of the same people against any amount of AI use (not saying that’s you, speaking generally). Why should AI be the only thing we raise concerns about if we’re to raise concerns? Doing environmental protection piecemeal by independently targeting single things and not the entire system has been shown time and time again to not work at best and make it worse at worst.




  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.mlChina Is About To Pop The AI Bubble
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    9 days ago

    China is good at compressing the existing models by stealing the answers they give you to make models that have equivalent performance that are way cheaper (plagiarism)

    Lol plagerism is when they take your shitty product and actually make it better apparently. Begs the question why China manages to succeed at this when Western companies that own the original product can’t. You’d think they’d always be one step ahead of those damn plagerising Chinese scum or at least would be able to do the exact same thing China does.

    Also if you’re calling plagerism on this I’m calling plagerism on all of AI. You can’t accept any generative AI while simultaneously pearl clutching when someone else plagerises your country’s AI. So pick one. Either we ban all AI for plagerising all of humanity or we don’t give a shit when one AI company plagerises another.