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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound
[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]
Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]
Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]
Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]
Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.
Sigh. This comic is as delusional as the rambling of Sam Altman about AGI.
AI is a tool and despite all its shortcomings not a disease. It’s important to wrestle it out of the hands of the techbros and give it back to the people.
But it’s going to stay and no yelling at the clouds will change it.
It’s also a fundamental misunderstanding of why people say “there’s no going back”.
Practically anyone with a gaming computer can download Ollama today and run a decent open source model and do stuff locally, download it, take their computer offline, then use AI without touching any billionaire’s SaaS products.
You can get some productivity out of those models. You can use LLM, generate images, use computer vision, get help coding with local offline agents. It might not be as clean as using some of the paid tools and closed source models, but they work.
And that’s what people mean by, “there’s no going back”. What the technology does is going to keep being a thing. It might dissipate a bit as the bubble pops, but it’s not going away just like it’d be weird to try and make the internet technology go away at this point, even after the dot com bust.
It doesn’t mean we can’t regulate data centers and their construction. It means the technology is developed and open source and usable by practically anyone, and the tooling will stay around.
Exactly. I run some local models on my graphics card for fun and honestly, those things getting kinda good.
But I guess if you’re on Lemmy, have a hateboner for LLMs and are full in your media confirmation bubble, then you probably don’t care. A bit disappointing, I always thought the metaverse is full of people that are interested in new things. I really can’t blame them however, the techbros do a good job to push everyone away from their technology.
99.99999999% of people (ie, normies) have no clue about any words you are saying, will blindly keep using shitty chatbots shoved in their faces (while generating lazy slop that poisons the internet/our brains), all while destroying land/earth to build data centers to push us to full fascist surveillance state.
thats the problem. Bobby Linux on his local ollama is of 0 concern.
Destroy all data centers.
Somebody voted you down, let me upvote you for balance.
Well I say: put the development of AI in the hands of academia and put regulations in place for the building of data centers. Consider environmental impact, force the use of renewable energy and prevent hardware shortage on the market. Let companies and organisations host their own models. Ban the use of phones in schools and shift the weight of exams in colleges and universities to oral questionnaires that confirm the student actually knows this stuff.
Yeah lol. That could be done in Europe, I’m skeptical about the US.
Please send me some looted hardware if you are destroying data centers.
Very much agree.