I needed to read this rant this morning, thank you. I’m blinking in disbelief that someone would think that China competing with the US over who has the biggest AI would somehow convince the US to not have AI. Huh?
I appreciate you so much, I don’t know what’s going on with my Internet but when I clicked on the email the text was slow to load and it really looked like your whole message was just “Fuck AI” as the title, and that’s it. and I giggled and thought, yeah, that really is all that needs to be said. But I’m glad the rest loaded so I could read it. I needed to read this this morning.
I did think Ryan Grim's take on Deepseek is interesting and worthy, but yeah we don't yet know the repercussions, and it's not the capitalists who will experience the worst.
AI is not intelligent. It is the product of brute force applied by a massive network of power hungry nodes utilizing statistical inference. Most of the effort is applied to copyrighted work in a manner that makes a mockery of the concept of fair use.
What is somewhat enjoyable is that Deepseek is a more elegant application in terms of resources which shows our tech bros to be quite a good distance from godly.
However, as Nathan Bear points out, the future of Deepseek is to consume more resources. Its ravenous growth will be a severe impediment to preserving the existence of our species. A slow walk to doom is as disastrous as the faster paced one of Stargate.
It’s not intelligent and I think most human beings have a weird visceral reaction to it because it doesn’t feel natural at all. My senses can tell something is wrong and it makes me feel icky.
I tried to watch a sci-fi movie named Project Gemini from 2021 or 2022. I think the actors are real people, but they used AI for the dubbing so the lips move to match the English words (Russian actors) but when I went on Wikipedia only two of the actors listed in the movie were linked to other films they had been in. I suppose it’s possible the rest of the cast has never been in anything ever but I think it’s more likely they weren’t real.
I only made it five or 10 minutes into it before I had to turn it off because it made me feel icky.
A couple weeks ago YouTube suggested a music video called “deny defend depose” or something like that, and it was 100% AI. Not just the video but the actual music itself. It felt icky, but more than that it just felt flat and empty.
Music moves me in ways I don’t realize unless I’m paying attention as I’m listening to it, there was no way that music was going to move me in any way at all.
I’m just afraid for the day that I don’t feel uncomfortable when I see it, when it can fool me enough that I don’t realize it’s AI.
TMI is reopening for this?! They only just decommissioned it! (And almost killed the surrounding area for the second time, including me, if the Netflix doc is accurate.) I don't know what's worse, massive dirty energy expenditures or going back to unsafe "cleaner" energy that makes radioactive waste we don't know what to do with, all in the name of this horrible tech.
I fucking hate AI. I hate being forced to use AI to 'stay competitive' in my job (content writing) and producing shitter content as a result. I hate that colleagues who resist the pressure to adopt AI will be squeezed out of the industry (and I hate myself for not resisting that pressure). I hate that it's taken what little pleasure and creativity there is out of my job. And I hate that this is the state of play in just the third year of widespread AI adoption in my industry: the future of content generation is shit content written by machines – and quite possibly read by machines too.
AI is shit, no one likes it, no one wanted it. It is a symbol of a decadent, trivial culture where misanthropic billionaires make millions by torching the planet and making everyone else's life miserable in the process. Throw it in the fucking bin!
There’s a lady who does videos on TikTok and maybe YouTube about hair care, her name is Abby something. Anyway about a month ago she realized that some Chinese company selling some scam hair curler had taken her videos and altered them with AI to make one to promote their product.
She only found out because people bought it thinking she was recommending it and then they were contacting her I’ve upset about it because it was a scam. At the time she made the video I think it was even still up, that’s identity theft and if I stole her identity the police would come for me and I would be indicted. But I guess you can’t indict a computer, and nobody’s going to go to China to arrest whoever did it.
But I’m sure capitalism loves that they can now make videos of people and they don’t have to pay the people. So much winning.
AI is already causing floodgates to open, leading to a massive increase in the availability of inexpensive and reasonably well narrated audiobooks. There is a treasure trove of important publications that nobody buys but might well listen to as low-price audiobooks. Many of those have been published and sold at prohibitively high prices by academic publishers. I want to read Historicized Fear, but it sells for $83, and maybe sells a few copies if the authors or editors force students to buy it. AI can bash down the doors of academic publishing elitism.
Mainstream publishers have countless interesting out of print books that they would never pay a reader to narrate, but the cost of an AI narration is approaching zero, so they might consider it.
AI is already showing diagnostic capability superior to physicians, so it should lead to an enormous improvement in medical care at very low cost.
Fifty doctors, a mix of attending physicians and residents, participated in the study; diagnoses were based on evaluations of medical patient cases. All in all, Chat GPT-4 got a 90% score for the diagnoses it delivered; the doctors on their own got average scores of 74%.
Extreme agree. Throw it into the fire of a thousand hot suns.
I needed to read this rant this morning, thank you. I’m blinking in disbelief that someone would think that China competing with the US over who has the biggest AI would somehow convince the US to not have AI. Huh?
I appreciate you so much, I don’t know what’s going on with my Internet but when I clicked on the email the text was slow to load and it really looked like your whole message was just “Fuck AI” as the title, and that’s it. and I giggled and thought, yeah, that really is all that needs to be said. But I’m glad the rest loaded so I could read it. I needed to read this this morning.
That's lovely thank you for saying that. Two words probably was enough
I did think Ryan Grim's take on Deepseek is interesting and worthy, but yeah we don't yet know the repercussions, and it's not the capitalists who will experience the worst.
I’ll check it out, thanks!
It was written by him on Substack, but doesn't look like it was through Dropsite News, called "Deepseek just proved Lina Khan right"
thank you for this offering
AI is not intelligent. It is the product of brute force applied by a massive network of power hungry nodes utilizing statistical inference. Most of the effort is applied to copyrighted work in a manner that makes a mockery of the concept of fair use.
What is somewhat enjoyable is that Deepseek is a more elegant application in terms of resources which shows our tech bros to be quite a good distance from godly.
However, as Nathan Bear points out, the future of Deepseek is to consume more resources. Its ravenous growth will be a severe impediment to preserving the existence of our species. A slow walk to doom is as disastrous as the faster paced one of Stargate.
It’s not intelligent and I think most human beings have a weird visceral reaction to it because it doesn’t feel natural at all. My senses can tell something is wrong and it makes me feel icky.
I tried to watch a sci-fi movie named Project Gemini from 2021 or 2022. I think the actors are real people, but they used AI for the dubbing so the lips move to match the English words (Russian actors) but when I went on Wikipedia only two of the actors listed in the movie were linked to other films they had been in. I suppose it’s possible the rest of the cast has never been in anything ever but I think it’s more likely they weren’t real.
I only made it five or 10 minutes into it before I had to turn it off because it made me feel icky.
A couple weeks ago YouTube suggested a music video called “deny defend depose” or something like that, and it was 100% AI. Not just the video but the actual music itself. It felt icky, but more than that it just felt flat and empty.
Music moves me in ways I don’t realize unless I’m paying attention as I’m listening to it, there was no way that music was going to move me in any way at all.
I’m just afraid for the day that I don’t feel uncomfortable when I see it, when it can fool me enough that I don’t realize it’s AI.
Uncanny valley.
Was just about to type that. BINGO!
1000%
Sometimes we really do need to say FUCK THIS SHIT in all caps, and I am here for it.
Thanks Nate 💙
I couldn't agree more!
TMI is reopening for this?! They only just decommissioned it! (And almost killed the surrounding area for the second time, including me, if the Netflix doc is accurate.) I don't know what's worse, massive dirty energy expenditures or going back to unsafe "cleaner" energy that makes radioactive waste we don't know what to do with, all in the name of this horrible tech.
I fucking hate AI. I hate being forced to use AI to 'stay competitive' in my job (content writing) and producing shitter content as a result. I hate that colleagues who resist the pressure to adopt AI will be squeezed out of the industry (and I hate myself for not resisting that pressure). I hate that it's taken what little pleasure and creativity there is out of my job. And I hate that this is the state of play in just the third year of widespread AI adoption in my industry: the future of content generation is shit content written by machines – and quite possibly read by machines too.
AI is shit, no one likes it, no one wanted it. It is a symbol of a decadent, trivial culture where misanthropic billionaires make millions by torching the planet and making everyone else's life miserable in the process. Throw it in the fucking bin!
That's poetry. Well put 🙏🏼
There’s a lady who does videos on TikTok and maybe YouTube about hair care, her name is Abby something. Anyway about a month ago she realized that some Chinese company selling some scam hair curler had taken her videos and altered them with AI to make one to promote their product.
She only found out because people bought it thinking she was recommending it and then they were contacting her I’ve upset about it because it was a scam. At the time she made the video I think it was even still up, that’s identity theft and if I stole her identity the police would come for me and I would be indicted. But I guess you can’t indict a computer, and nobody’s going to go to China to arrest whoever did it.
But I’m sure capitalism loves that they can now make videos of people and they don’t have to pay the people. So much winning.
human consciousness just as useless.
you're obsolete. throwing a tantrum about it makes it even worse.
well said, FUCK THAT SHIT!
AI is already causing floodgates to open, leading to a massive increase in the availability of inexpensive and reasonably well narrated audiobooks. There is a treasure trove of important publications that nobody buys but might well listen to as low-price audiobooks. Many of those have been published and sold at prohibitively high prices by academic publishers. I want to read Historicized Fear, but it sells for $83, and maybe sells a few copies if the authors or editors force students to buy it. AI can bash down the doors of academic publishing elitism.
Mainstream publishers have countless interesting out of print books that they would never pay a reader to narrate, but the cost of an AI narration is approaching zero, so they might consider it.
AI is already showing diagnostic capability superior to physicians, so it should lead to an enormous improvement in medical care at very low cost.
Fifty doctors, a mix of attending physicians and residents, participated in the study; diagnoses were based on evaluations of medical patient cases. All in all, Chat GPT-4 got a 90% score for the diagnoses it delivered; the doctors on their own got average scores of 74%.
Luddites will oppose it, of course.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3609002/study-chat-gpt-is-better-than-doctors-at-diagnosing-illness.html
What DeepSeek demonstrates is that the big money players created a hype bubble, which they will cash out on regardless of how anything goes now.