#machine learning chatgpt

[bitchesgetriches]

31% of employees are actively ‘sabotaging’ AI efforts. Here’s why

"In a new study, almost a third of respondents said they are refusing to use their company’s AI tools and apps. A few factors could be at play."

[river-taxbird]

AI hasn't improved in 18 months. It's likely that this is it. There is currently no evidence the capabilities of ChatGPT will ever improve. It's time for AI companies to put up or shut up.

I'm just re-iterating this excellent post from Ed Zitron, but it's not left my head since I read it and I want to share it. I'm also taking some talking points from Ed's other posts. So basically:

We keep hearing AI is going to get better and better, but these promises seem to be coming from a mix of companies engaging in wild speculation and lying.

Chatgpt, the industry leading large language model, has not materially improved in 18 months. For something that claims to be getting exponentially better, it sure is the same shit.

Hallucinations appear to be an inherent aspect of the technology. Since it's based on statistics and ai doesn't know anything, it can never know what is true. How could I possibly trust it to get any real work done if I can't rely on it's output? If I have to fact check everything it says I might as well do the work myself.

For "real" ai that does know what is true to exist, it would require us to discover new concepts in psychology, math, and computing, which open ai is not working on, and seemingly no other ai companies are either.

Open ai has already seemingly slurped up all the data from the open web already. Chatgpt 5 would take 5x more training data than chatgpt 4 to train. Where is this data coming from, exactly?

Since improvement appears to have ground to a halt, what if this is it? What if Chatgpt 4 is as good as LLMs can ever be? What use is it?

As Jim Covello, a leading semiconductor analyst at Goldman Sachs said (on page 10, and that's big finance so you know they only care about money): if tech companies are spending a trillion dollars to build up the infrastructure to support ai, what trillion dollar problem is it meant to solve? AI companies have a unique talent for burning venture capital and it's unclear if Open AI will be able to survive more than a few years unless everyone suddenly adopts it all at once. (Hey, didn't crypto and the metaverse also require spontaneous mass adoption to make sense?)

There is no problem that current ai is a solution to. Consumer tech is basically solved, normal people don't need more tech than a laptop and a smartphone. Big tech have run out of innovations, and they are desperately looking for the next thing to sell. It happened with the metaverse and it's happening again.

In summary:

Ai hasn't materially improved since the launch of Chatgpt4, which wasn't that big of an upgrade to 3.

There is currently no technological roadmap for ai to become better than it is. (As Jim Covello said on the Goldman Sachs report, the evolution of smartphones was openly planned years ahead of time.) The current problems are inherent to the current technology and nobody has indicated there is any way to solve them in the pipeline. We have likely reached the limits of what LLMs can do, and they still can't do much.

Don't believe AI companies when they say things are going to improve from where they are now before they provide evidence. It's time for the AI shills to put up, or shut up.

[gynoidgearhead]

we need to come up for a good word for ""AI"" that doesn't imply it's artificial or intelligent and highlights the stolen human labor. like what if we call it "theftgen"

(workshop this with me)

[tumbler-polls]

[herigo]

[queer-asinfuckyou]

The genAI hate is funny to me bc yall don't actually hate generative AI, you hate the way it's being used.

You know how spellcheck sucks now? And it's because they're doing all this genAI bullshit! If they just kept AI out of spellcheck it would be FINE!!!

Except here's the thing: old spellcheck was genAI too, it was just well built. When you got a new phone, you'd have to "train" it to stop correcting fuck to duck by hitting the x or deleting the correction and writing your beautiful swear all over again. The fact that it eventually stopped fixing your swears is because it was a piece of machine learning software that learned your texting and word choice patterns. That's generative AI, babey! The difference between that and what we have now is that the old system had rules built into it. It had a solid foundation of grammar and capitalization and when to expect a word in a sentence.

Well built generative AI is actually fine and dandy and useful, just like predictive AI. The problem is, as always, capitalism enshittifying everything.

[sag-dab-sar]

Clarification: Generative AI does not equal all AI

💭 "Artificial Intelligence"

AI is machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and more that I'm not smart enough to know. It can be extremely useful in many different fields and technologies. One of my information & emergency management courses described the usage of AI as being a "human centaur". Part human part machine; meaning AI can assist in all the things we already do and supplement our work by doing what we can't.

💭 Examples of AI Benefits

AI can help advance things in all sorts of fields, here are some examples:

Emergency Healthcare & Disaster Risk X

Disaster Response X

Crisis Resilience Management X

Medical Imaging Technology X

Commercial Flying X

Air Traffic Control X

Railroad Transportation X

Ship Transportation X

Geology X

Water Conservation X

Can AI technology be used maliciously? Yeh. Thats a matter of developing ethics and working to teach people how to see red flags just like people see red flags in already existing technology.

AI isn't evil. Its not the insane sentient shit that wants to kill us in movies. And it is not synonymous with generative AI.

💭 Generative AI

Generative AI does use these technologies, but it uses them unethically. Its scraps data from all art, all writing, all videos, all games, all audio anything it's developers give it access to WITHOUT PERMISSION, which is basically free reign over the internet. Sometimes with certain restrictions, often generative AI engineers—who CAN choose to exclude things—may exclude extremist sites or explicit materials usually using black lists.

AI can create images of real individuals without permission, including revenge porn. Create music using someones voice without their permission and then sell that music. It can spread disinformation faster than it can be fact checked, and create false evidence that our court systems are not ready to handle.

AI bros eat it up without question: "it makes art more accessible" , "it'll make entertainment production cheaper" , "its the future, evolve!!!"

💭 AI is not similar to human thinking

When faced with the argument "a human didn't make it" the come back is "AI learns based on already existing information, which is exactly what humans do when producing art! We ALSO learn from others and see thousands of other artworks"

Lets make something clear: generative AI isn't making anything original. It is true that human beings process all the information we come across. We observe that information, learn from it, process it then ADD our own understanding of the world, our unique lived experiences. Through that information collection, understanding, and our own personalities we then create new original things.

💭 Generative AI doesn't create things: it mimics things

Take an analogy:

Consider an infant unable to talk but old enough to engage with their caregivers, some point in between 6-8 months old.

Mom: a bird flaps its wings to fly!!! *makes a flapping motion with arm and hands*

Infant: *giggles and makes a flapping motion with arms and hands*

The infant does not understand what a bird is, what wings are, or the concept of flight. But she still fully mimicked the flapping of the hands and arms because her mother did it first to show her. She doesn't cognitively understand what on earth any of it means, but she was still able to do it.

In the same way, generative AI is the infant that copies what humans have done— mimicry. Without understanding anything about the works it has stolen.

Its not original, it doesn't have a world view, it doesn't understand emotions that go into the different work it is stealing, it's creations have no meaning, it doesn't have any motivation to create things it only does so because it was told to.

Why read a book someone isn't even bothered to write?

Related videos I find worth a watch

ChatGPT's Huge Problem by Kyle Hill (we don't understand how AI works)

Criticism of Shadiversity's "AI Love Letter" by DeviantRahll

AI Is Ruining the Internet by Drew Gooden

AI vs The Law by Legal Eagle (AI & US Copyright)

AI Voices by Tyler Chou (Short, flash warning)

Dead Internet Theory by Kyle Hill

-Dyslexia, not audio proof read-

[unspuncreature]

[image ID: Bluesky post from user marawilson that reads

“Anyway, Al has already stolen friends' work, and is going to put other people out of work. I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.”

beneath a quote post by user emeraldjaguar that reads

“Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” /end ID]

[stardustedknuckles]

I've had 12 hours to think on it and you know what? I don't think I was mean enough to the white boy last night who started up a conversation with me while I was taking photographs to eventually ask how I felt about AI. On pride no less.

[inkstars1138]

I want to say the whole shift to genAI blows my mind but tbh it does not. We've been moving that direction for years, what with kids actively plagiarizing stuff online, actively cheating, changing grades in thr system... and it hasn't been just that.

Look at Clip Studio adding in an auto color auto shading and symmetry function. Look at Photoshop actions. Look at the bezier curve tools. The people who want to look like a machine made it and then they can say "no I did". We literally spent decades trying to get people to take digital art seriously as a medium, and that it wasn't just "push a button and go' or "the machine does it for you" and look what they've done.

The knitters who the hate mistakes and humanizing elements that make a fiber craft a fiber craft and look I don't care if you want to make the finest piece of knitting you can, it's when you denigrate other fiber arts for looking like human hands made it. If people won't take it seriously because it *checks notes* "looks like an arts and crafts project (derogatory)" maybe the problem here isn't you, or the craft you're doing, it's THEM. You don't need to make perfect stuff. I am 1000% anti generative AI/genAI. I draw all of my digital art by hand. I write all of my stories and agonize over them and edit them with my own two hands, my brain, and help... from real actual people. I don't want to hear about how generativeAI and chatGPT are helpful, they are NOT. Sit down and LEARN. If you don't have time, energy, or brain power to learn? Then maybe that thing is not for you.

If you think I am trashing people who use genAI congratulations you are correct. Also if you think I am against the bezier tool, you are correct! What I hate about it is that it has become the EXPECTED way to produce art, so when people who have human errors in their art that is considered gross and unacceptable. People new to art are so afraid of their human mistakes, that instead of learning to draw, they turn to genAI and bezier tools and symmetry to achieve things they didn't learn. And don't talk to me about it improving things for disabled people. I have been in the art community LONG before genAI and symmetry tools and I had MANY disabled friends who drew (most in the traditional art field). Two different friends blind in one eye, people with disabilities that gave them tremors, people with severe EDS, people with chronic fatigue and chronic illness. And you know what they did? They adapted. Used mirrors and various disability aids and adapted their difficulties INTO their art. They improved over time. Which is what you're supposed to do. genAI takes all of that away from you. You can lol about how you produced a fic in five seconds, but what has it gotten you? Aside from garbage. There's no high when you finally type "The End" into your text field. When you say "yeah I freaking did it". When you go back and read it and go "damn I really wrote that". genAI takes the high away of putting your pencil, your stylus, your brush, whatever tool you have, down, you finished. You colored that. You drew that. Who cares what it looks like, you DID it. That is a high, and you're missing it. For a machine. So you can say "I couldn't do it, but I made the machine do it haha" God I remember when we made fun of how shitty machine produced stuff was. When we laughed at machine translation, when we laughed that the early AI chatbots, when we laughed at how creepy they were because they wanted to sound human. If you want to cheat? Do it without the computer. Do it without the machine. Go copy shit out of a SparkNotes like your predecessors did. You wanna cheat? Write all the answers in tiny words on an index card. Otherwise, put your back into it. LEARN. Y'all really are not afraid of dementia or Alzheimers and you SHOULD be. LEARN SHIT. Every time you do something with genAI, you are losing part of your brain. You wanna be smart? LEARN.

What I'm saying here is that we've basically gone the inverse of cyberpunk, we're not replacing our bodies with machine parts and keeping the human brain because flawed though they are, they're what makes us, us... we've kept our meat prisons and replaced our brains with machines and that's disappointing. Not to be all fucking Bear Grylls about it but LEARN. ADAPT. OVERCOME. Do what everyone did before this shit existed, and do it your damn self. If anyone comments on this and wilfully misunderstands WHICH KIND of AI that I am talking about, despite me actually specifying, I will eat you with butter and salt. None of you genAI and chatGPT supporters have watched Terminator (1984) and it shows. GO WATCH IT. And you know what? Watch The Matrix (1999) too. Learn to fear the machines. (fuck it watch Terminator 2 also)

[noosphe-re]

What does ChatGPT stand for? GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. This means that it learns what to say by capturing information from the internet. It then uses all of this text to "generate" responses to questions or commands that someone might ask.

7 things you NEED to know about ChatGPT (and the many different things the internet will tell you.) (BBC)

[kingly-genderfluid]

Well.

I have a shit relationship with my dad. He openly expresses how AI can AND WILL, replace writers.

Which is horrid, considering that his “straight catholic and cisgender female” daughter is currently working on a book of their own.

he invited me for dinner, and conversation got…

heated.

mom and little brother stayed out of it-wisely so.

so he openly tells me, “Look, I can openly type out a prompt, and Chat GPT will just write it for me.”

I should have kept a cool head, but I yelled. I think a neighbour heard me.

I kept shutting down his remarks about how my writing wouldn’t matter because of AI.

so. I’m at war. A very. Very. Important war. For the future of all writers, and artists alike. If I don’t start shutting off this thinking from my own home, the world will begin believing that AI can solve HUMAN PROBLEMS. AI leeches off what humans create. What we worked so hard to do. The hours we took to make people cry, get angry, or be happy.

AI doesn’t even pay workers. AI can’t comfort someone with ALGORITHM. AI can’t do anything without someone already having done it. AI can’t make anything relatable, because it’s a BOT. Since when do BOTS, feel HUMAN emotion.

sometimes the information isn’t even right.

So I’m at war.

I support the writers guild.

I support ANY struggling writer, going against the current of AI.

Fuck it, we ball.

kids who love to write-AND IVE SEEN THESE KIDS WITH A BURNING PASSION FOR THE ART OF LANGUAGE, I WAS ONE OF THEM TOO-they are about to get their dreams to make someone see their vision, their imagination, stripped away from them. Because of bots.

they can assist with creativity, maybe. Fixing up a few mishaps in grammar. That’s all they’re good for. You can’t make a movie without the vision of a human behind it.

watermark your arts.

I don’t know how to protect your fan fiction, but we’re going to do our best.

This is my mini war.

might be a bigger one.

who knows ;)

[tilbageidanmark]

A.I. Disney Punk Baby

[nixcraft]

caption this 😂

[affairsmastery]

Chinese startup DeepSeek's AI Assistant has surged past ChatGPT to become the top-rated free app on Apple’s U.S. App Store. Powered by the advanced DeepSeek-V3 model, praised for rivaling even the most advanced global AI systems, the app's rapid rise is shaking assumptions about U.S. dominance in AI innovation.

Despite U.S. export controls on advanced chips to China, DeepSeek leveraged Nvidia's H800 chips with a reported training cost under $6 million, sparking debates on the effectiveness of these restrictions. Founded in 2023 in Hangzhou, DeepSeek has become the first Chinese AI model to gain significant praise from Silicon Valley for matching, and potentially surpassing, top-tier U.S. AI models.

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