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i hope nebula stays nice and clean

hey i’m running on solar and battery so no waste of electricity here ;)

but yeah that was it, i just noticed how here and on mastodon i read ‘ai is a scam’ and then turn my head and read ‘ai will take all our jobs’, makes for a nice whiplash effect

also it’s 4am here i’m going to sleep, appreciate the chat

Stock market chaos as China reveals secret snake oil refinery, threatening US snake oil monopoly.

https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/113901910776808096

Snake oil yesterday, magic beans today.

AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67977967

Going to hit 40% of jobs in 5 years the next

Is it magic beans and snake oil, eg. a scam or is it a legit threat, you can’t have both

we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america

“It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”

again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value (eg. magic beans) and going to take all our jobs

You can absolutely leave and fund a “good” company, good luck getting anywhere.

If the product has value then people will buy it*

Humans have always created jobs, we love em, can’t get enough of em, in a capitalist system if people want to buy human made goods and services and those systems are profitable then there will be jobs for those people

This isn’t a communist dictatorship where you will be forced to buy government sponsored AI produce and no other choice is given to you

*I assume the products would have little logos on them like “non-gmo, organic, human made and farmed fruits!” etc

But cars have always had value, we’re talking under an article that calls AI “magic beans”

How could magic beans which produce garbage enslave humanity under capitalism? Would you argue that cars which replaced horses as the primary mode of transport in a few years be called this?

You can argue that AI does some things badly, it’s still very very early on and the progress people are making is insane, like nothing I’ve seen before, but you can’t argue it is worthless and a giant threat to us at the same time, this is contradictory

That can’t be possible, if they fire all their workers and produce AI slop then we will simply start a new company with human workers that doesn’t.

This isn’t communism we can simply start a new business at any time for any reason, with or without AI

companies are getting ahead of themselves about the opportunity to fire human employees

But then if they produce garbage with AI people will buy the non-garbage product

Either it produces something of value or it doesn’t, if it’s producing garbage, lowering output, etc then it’s not a threat to our jobs because most people don’t like garbage, if it’s producing genuine value then it will be.

i have noticed that there are two competing narratives in the leftwingosphere:

A) ai is 100% slop garbage and a giant waste of electricity, pumping out garbage images with multiple hands and the text is nothing but hallucinations that can’t even count the number of r’s in “strawberry”

and at the same time

B) AI is going to take all our jobs and we will all be homeless and poor while tech billionaire CEOs turn us into slaves

few niche uses? it has heaps of uses that aren’t niche at all

https://aussie.zone/post/16417192/14017352

perplexity.ai is a better search engine than any current ones and that’s about as mainstream a use as you can get

What exactly is there to defend or deflect, LLM’s are useful for some things and not for others, this is well known

what the fuck is this shit