No one who is impressed with LLMs to the point they believe they should in any way be mistaken for intelligence must be summarily ignored and excluded from decision processes which affect anyone not similarly impaired.

LLMs are only AI as Accelerators and Amplifiers of Ignorance and Incompetence, with vanishingly scarce examples of Iteration and Insight.

Reminds me of when the stupid “Web 3.0” made up by blockchain freaks was supposed to be the future. Not every technology will be as widespread as the internet. The internet facilitates communication across the entire world and offers many advantages over phone, mail, and other forms of communication.

The use cases and advantages are clear, even if there was an overly eager hype cycle in the 90s. AI might have some uses, but a clear advantage has not actually been established yet, nor have the legal challenges been ironed out. Remember that the current iteration of AI would not have been possible without breaking tons of IP law, slurping up as much data as possible.

The difference is that AI is not morally repugnant to most people, and its harms are indirect, rather than direct

I am more mad about people saying “it’s improvng exponentially.” The rate of improvement is falling, if enything.

Bunch of people said it because sci-fi made them believe so, and then everyone else went along with it for some reason.

Either the exponent is 1/2 or people are just having shared delusions.

None of those things were new technology. The assembly line didn’t go away when people were angry about being laid off.

If you’re talking about a specific product of AI (“art” for example), you might want to make that clearer. If you’re talking about AI in general, you’re treating this one thing like it’s a reason to try turning back the clock.

The rational thing to do would be getting politically involved to get AI out of corporate ownership.

Well to be fair to the giant pieces of shit in positions of power all over the states they are trying to bring child labor back as well

I’d bet good money it’s the same people fighting to keep child marriage.

AI will eventually enable a society without wage slavery. Everyone will have enough and some extra. No one will need to work.
And there literally is no other option to get a society without the need to work. AI really is the only way.

I’ve found that when people I can clearly tell are intelligent suddenly sound like idiots, it’s usually because I don’t understand what they’re saying. It’s never because saying something I don’t want to hear suddenly turned them into idiots.

You’re really comparing the use of AI to actual slavery?

3 of the 4 panels are on topic, the smoking one I would say doesn’t belong. The topic is about labor exploitation. Slave labor was cheap brute force labor. Then it was banned. So people pushed for more child labor (not that it didn’t exist in parallel to slave labor, just not as utilized). Once child labor was banned from being the dominant labor exploitation there was also the rise of things like company script and company town. Also banned. For the past fee decades we have lived through globalism as the main method of exploitation, pushing for remote jobs from cheap labor countries and shipping factories overseas. Now we have AI. And we are seeing that for specific tasks it can be exploited for cheaper labor. Humanity will always find ways of exploiting cheap labor.

In 100 years this will be about cloning slaves and arguing that they aren’t real people. Capitalists will control the cloning farms and use the clones as exploitable labor. And in a short time after the exploitation of clones, they will argue that it is already here and there is no point in stopping it.

i find it funny smoking indoors is on the same level of bad as literal slavery 🤣

Only works with things that have proven efficacy. Like the car replacing the horse or electricity replacing various manual labour tasks, like doing laundry.

As much as I hate ai/llm’s, here we’re conflating new technologies with bad practices. This is a fallacy.

However much we hate llm’s they definitely aren’t going away anytime soon. You can’t make laws or policies to make ideas/technologies go away.

That was a very misleading comparison I think. There are obvious bad things related to AI but claiming it’s something similar to slavery ou smoking indoors is just crazy.

It would be funnier if they listed things that don’t exist anymore though.