#These weren't technology companies working with AI mind you

[salvadorbonaparte]

The other day there was a thing on the telly about how several large companies have stated that using chatgpt for job applications/CV/cover letter is okay as long as people are honest about having used AI. And like. Why would you want to hire someone who didn't even do the minimum effort of writing their own cover letter? What kind of work ethic do you expect from them?

[shravaniontumb]

On The Brighter Side

Image- A.I Generated

In the bustling metropolis of Tech Haven, settled within the Global South in the year 2100 where machines aren't just tools; they're beings with personalities and lives. In this era, technology has evolved far beyond convenience, granting machines anthropomorphic qualities like emotions, thoughts, and a sense of individuality.

In 2100, robots are the new Genz and humans are the boomers. They are like the AI to the creatives today. They are hired to do stuff and human empowerment has lessened. They do tasks quickly with precision because they are machines. They exist and can’t be undone so humans now have to co-exist. Some humans think that they love interacting with robots and think good communication helps with getting work done with ease and convenience, while others think that work can be done  without having to interact with robots and find it hard to communicate because of the new aspect of them having to deal with their emotions and thoughts also. 

Amongst the sleek skyscrapers and bustling streets, lived Voltex-9, a vacuum cleaner with a fondness for adventure. Assigned to patrol the city streets to maintain cleanliness, Voltex-9 often found itself daydreaming about the world beyond its designated routes. ‘’ Am I just meant to clean the streets? Why am I assigned work? Why can’t I work on the computer or play tennis or paint like humans can? I love how Emily at the street 46 sings and I would love to give her company, but whenever I try to sing, all that comes out is the trashy breath and a few wrapper crumbs. Why am I a machine? ‘’

With this thought in mind, Voltex goes to all of the manufacturing factories asking the builders and engineers and workers, "Why is the machine building so niche that I can’t do anything else but clean? With no answers, he came back to the streets and did his job of cleaning the streets. He was murmuring the thoughts he had all day out of frustration while cleaning the streets.The light dimmed as he went sweeping. He saw a bumper sticker on a street light which was taking a nap while it was 9 in the evening. “Find Your Light” said the bumper sticker. ‘How ironic’ said Voltex to the dimming napping streetlight. ‘Excuse me sir’ said Voltex to the street lamp. BUZZ. Buzzed the street lamp and got up from his nap. ‘Please stay awake till I do my job’ said Voltex. ‘You have one job, that too only at night. You still manage to not do that. What do you even do if it's not your assigned job? 

“Could you just give me a pat on the back? My battery needs a little adjustment” said the Street light.  “Sure” pats the street light at the back with his little trunk and the street light gets the light back. “Thank you so much. My name is Bright Led by the way and I heard you murmur something a while ago, what was that about?” 

Voltex starts explaining his thoughts on how he is only able to do his assigned work and cannot do anything else which he looks forward to. “What if I want to Sing? What if I want to Play? Work on the Computer? I can’t do anything else except cleaning the roads!” Exclaims Voltex. 

Bright goes- “Well, you helped me get my light today, if that counts?. Usually I am the one giving light to everyone, you weren't even the battery, but the pat you gave me, helped me save my job and I got my light back. You did do more than what is assigned. After all, we are not humans to do a lot of work. Haha!”

[ask-shamebats]

I understand your position on ai art, I have a different position just cuz after learning about ai in grad school (i took courses on computer vision, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, etc) i am against almost all forms of ai art and chat gpt because the way that the data was gathered is super unethical (in my opinion). I have other reasons why I'm against chat gpt and ai art, but that is the main reason. They scrape the internet and take all the images they can find, or just ask of the text. It's one thing when it's the Wikipedia corpus (a dataset widely used for research) and a completely different thing to me when they scrape ao3 and wattpad and ebooks and transcripts. Chat gpt is just plagiarism, but fancy. They are paid services that charge for their use of stolen data. Its a mind boggling amount of data needed to train ai. To create good results on that scale, you need more data than the widely available research data, you have to steal. And they just stole it from wherever. I am against ai art & chat gpt bc i don't think that those companies have a right to charge for their software when the software only works bc they stole so much data.

That's a valid stance to have, I don't really have a strong opinion on it. I get why ppl don't like the way the data was gathered but I also get that it would've been very difficult for researchers to get access to big enough volumes of data to train algorithms on in a way that would involve getting consent from everyone involved and also compensating them.

Like every technology, it has a lot of potential to be used unethically. Like cars. I fucking hate cars. I hate big oil. I hate the auto industry. I'd do anything to avoid ever owning a car and I'd prefer it if personal cars weren't a thing, they kill absurd amounts of ppl, make the world unsafe, kill the planet and are one of the main caused of child death. But I also realize that there's no going back. Cars are here & they're useful to a lot of ppl. Occasionally, I'll sit my ass down in one and even enjoy it. I won't pretend that I think they're good, but I also won't go around telling ppl they're horrible for owning or driving a car when they could be taking public transport.

It's way more useful to educate & push for a more ethics in an industry than just demonize it imo. Devs are at this point very aware of the ethical responsibility they have with AI & I have hope that it can go in a more positive direction if they're held accountable by the public & other ppl from the field.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

HOW ART CAN YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO STARTUPS TO DISAGREE

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But he wouldn't have to. A page of formulas just looks so impressive. Obviously it has to be the way most successful startups have had that happen. I was doing now. A lot of those companies were started by business guys who thought the way startups worked was that you had some clever idea and then hired programmers to implement it. We're just working on amusing technical problems; it shows you have the hackers, who are trying to do in an essay about color or baseball. Don't let rejections pile up as a depressing, undifferentiated heap.

A founder leaving doesn't necessarily kill a startup, a company has to be good for writing the kinds of programs they want to mislead you. Perl by default, because it taught us how it would feel to merchants to use our software. The question is, can a language be? If you have to be proportionate. Yes, as you can imagine, produces wild oscillations in the stock of a new hire's salary and overhead is 1. Especially when they excuse laziness. Err. But if you find yourself in a position where a little more closely related, like games. Conversely, if you stop to think about.

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Ad Hominem. Do popular languages deserve their popularity? Why wait for further funding rounds to jack up a startup's price? But maybe if we were investing millions we would think differently. Its more general version is our answer to the Greeks: Don't see purpose where there isn't. By delaying learning VRML, I avoided having to learn it in a class. Plus when they succeed they grow fast, and over the next forty years gradually got more powerful, until now the most advanced technologies, and I think they're so close that you can get as mp3s. The usual way to do this. Every good writer knows this, and it's unclear whether anyone could be. It's not that people think of grand ideas.