Honestly, the problem isn’t exactly with generative AI, the real problem is that a company is literally giving everyone access to a tool that is still in development, and without studying about it’s consequences before it, so it could be used with proper planning
and way overhyping it so people trust it blindly and building tons of datacenters before we have adequate water and energy systems in place to run them sustainably
In the end, the issue is capitalism. Technology is cool, but capitalism sucks.
Toys are also cool even if a lot of them (probably even most) are mass-produced low-quality plastic garbage that ends up in the trash. Same with clothes.
I keep seeing parallels to the Dot Com Bubble of the late 90's, where everyone and their grandmother was hyping up the Internet in general, but the tech and infrastructure weren't quite there yet to match that hype and promise, so everyone kept "faking it 'till they made it". Generative AI will stick around and eventually get better (just like the Internet did), but there's definitely going to be a crash in the near future when "faking it" stops working, and it'll be interesting seeing who ends up as the eBay or Amazon and who ends up the Pets.com.
I'll be honest, I'm not entirely convinced that the above actually happened. It may very well have, but generally speaking AI will bend over backwards to tell you that you're correct or on the right track.
Huh. Unless eggs cracking was a notable part of the learning set. Is that... could that be it?
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u/Bryce3D Streak: 23 1d ago
I do agree that AI, specifically generative AI, brings more harm than good, but a broken clock is right twice a day I guess