"AI" doesn't create, it just regurgitates and meshes. Everyone's saying it like it's a bad thing but I don't think so?
@levisan it is for a number of professions, and raises some serious questions about intellectual property.
Not that the movie studios and pop music industry haven't been doing their best, but it is almost almost guaranteed to be the death of originality or novelty of any kind (by definition.)
It is potentially the death, or a severe culling of designers, musicians (especially composers and producers), writers, editors, and so on.
If this had occurred in an age where people had taste, it would be a curiosity, but in an era where packages of coke emphasize elementary addition, it is a much bigger threat.
It remains to be seen what kind of "better" current engines might become, but I suspect that we'll either have an uncanny valley effect that separates the crap from the cream, or dumb everything down to make AI look competitive:
@jezza I don't disagree!
I guess what I'm trying to say is… is it really bad that it can't actually create something new, assuming the users know what's going on? Ignoring the mediocre-or-worse media being produced, but for other uses.
If only "we" can pivot "AI" away from being a thing being used for slop and focus on better uses…
@levisan given the timbre of the conversation, where people speak of AI as if it has agency, desire, and creativity, I don't think people understand that.
"AI" is also the wrong term, unless you mean Actually Indians. OCR is "AI", a proven and robust technology, but no one means OCR when they say "AI". No one says LLM to distinguish it, from, say, OCR... it's just "AI."
I'm not sure what use it (meaning mostly LLMs) has that it hasn't already proven itself abysmal at, from deleting user's hard drives to offering people deals that companies don't actually offer, to suggesting field telescopes as gun sites (all things I've seen in the last week and a half) it's just... not a thing.
The military's recent rollout of a specialized version of Gemini lead to crashes and lack of access even as personnel were urged to "integrate it into their battle rhythm", touting such amazing features for the soldier as... formatting documents.
To really make the LLM parlour trick work, like ELIZA of days past, it strokes the user and prompts them, mostly agreeing or affirming them. All the way to suicide, divorce, and erotic interaction.
I don't see what positive use it has, nor the justification for the energy, water, and space its consuming.
@jezza haha Actually Indians is great!
I’ve been saying I’ll keep putting “AI” in scare quotes until it politely requests otherwise for at least two years now…