Some changes, and Boosters vs Doomers - eviltoast

I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I’m not that frightened by it. It’s awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won’t completely upend society. I’ll have articles abound on AI hype, because they’re quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it’s way harder to fake actual evidence.

I also want to factor in people who think that there’s nothing anyone can do. I’ve come to realize that there might not be a way to attack OpenAI, MidJourney, or Stable Diffusion. These people, which I will call Doomers from an AIHWOS article, are perfectly welcome here. You can certainly come along and read the AI Hype Wall Of Shame, or the diminishing returns of Deep Learning. Maybe one can even become a Mod!

Boosters, or people who heavily use AI and see it as a source of good, ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE! I’ve seen Boosters dox, threaten, and harass artists over on Reddit and Twitter, and they constantly champion artists losing their jobs. They go against the very purpose of this community. If I hear a comment on here saying that AI is “making things good” or cheering on putting anyone out of a job, and the commenter does not retract their statement, said commenter will be permanently banned. FA&FO.

  • VerbFlow@lemmy.worldOPM
    4·
    7 months ago

    Original Desc: A place for all those who loathe machine-learning and its endorsement – and to document the knaves behind this dismal industry. Proud supporter of human artists. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.

  • Soluna@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    41·
    1 month ago

    I do want to understand, I am no “booster” by any means and I think on the whole AI is being used in some abhorrent ways, but I don’t think the technology is the problem I think the problem is it’s use to steal art and by corporations to cut people out of the picture, and I do think there are some beneficial applications of AI and that it is not unilaterally negative or evil. Just being used in a lot of shitty evil ways right now. Does that mean I am unwelcome here? Genuinely asking.

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
    32·
    6 months ago

    Fuck AI but imo community names are good to be little more productive. We will just circlejerk here hard lol which is not like bad in itself but hella boooring.

    Gimme a good debate with the ai bros I can watch on sidelines as smarter than me make arguments. Just warn/ban em if they are disrespectful

    But maybe that’s the purpose of whole rest of the tech comms…

    • VerbFlow@lemmy.worldOPM
      42·
      6 months ago

      The types of places they’re on are the mainstream sites (Reddit & Twitter), and I don’t want to go there unless I have to. I honestly think a big part of the push for AI isn’t popularity at all. Nobody really likes it that much. It’s purely oligarchs who try to make their product look good to investors, and who see it as a way to replace human workers immensely easily. I’m unsure where the cryptocurrency-using techbros come from, tho. Maybe they’re bot accounts held by very few people.