The internet is a brutal place at times. To some, it can ruin someone’s well-being. To others, it’s a Tuesday. But the apps I just listed can have stuff that makes you question humanity. So which one of them has the most comments that shows you the worst of humanity? And feel free to share examples and your reactions
Reddit - Dunning Kruger: everyone thinks they’re experts in everything. Also psychotic mods.
Twitter - Nazis and Nerds: Anyone still on there for anything other than tech and some science news is either stupid or okay with supporting a Nazi.
Facebook - Anti-Vaxers and Pedophiles: the algorithm ensures that even the most hardcore science groups get flooded with anti-vax comments and intellectually disabled idiots.
Lemmy - Anti-Technologists: there’s a ravenous hatred for AI with zero consideration for how beneficial it is as a technology. Completely misdirected. Get pissed with the corrupt corporations and politicians selling out our privacy, content, land, water, and energy.
LinkedIn - Corporate sycophants and AI: want to talk about virtue signaling?
Find me an AI that wasn’t trained on stolen data by a power-hungry billionaire to make an excuse to buy up literally all the computers that humanity can produce while destroying social, political, and environmental conditions in order to corner the market and make us all subservient to their cloud for tasks we now depend on doing electronically, and it’ll be just fine with “AI”
🤔 would you though?
https://allenai.org/olmo
Are you fine with the US? UK? France? Germany? Japan? China? How about Electricity? Does you car run on oil? Do you use plastic? How about nuclear power? Do you eat meat? Buy stuff online? Fly?
If we start judging things on their past/origins you won’t be able to use anything and live anywhere.
I pirate content. I don’t give a shit about “IP”, or the concept that surrounds it. Also, open sourced models are about 6 months behind the frontier ones. This has been the case at least for the last 2-3 years. Sooo sorry, don’t care about “ooooh they used the content I uploaded on a public site for training”.
Thank you for agreeing with me… then… not?
Lemmy is basically just leftist Reddit in my experience. Otherwise, very very similar problems. The anti-technological development crowd is truly unlike any other though.
Lol wut?
The fediverse is extremely pro technological development.
The only tech that the fediverse pushes back against is gen ai for valid reasons such as how it is being implemented causing environmental, social, and economic harm.
Agreed, valid criticisms. Who however, is to blame? The science and the scientists behind it, the technology itself or the capitalists commercializing it?
A very valid set of criticism aimed at the wrong entities causes a lot of harm, does it not?
The tech itself is quite cool. IF implemented in a correct regulatory environment, it can do absolute wonders.
What should be the approach? Fighting for the correct regulatory environment or just shitting on the tech itself?
All of the problems are about how the capitalists are implementing it for commercial reasons. Shitting on the tech is the best approach because the capitalists are being given every exemption from taxation and regulation possible so it isn’t like we can wish for a magic regulatory environment to fix anything. GenAI should be treated like Meta’s glasses, tech being forced on everyone in the worst possible way and violating all kinds of rights and it should be banned for general use until such time that some kind of guard rails and regulation exists.
AIs out there saying you can spell poop with the letters in Wednesday. I don’t understand why we’re trusting it to do anything. Its a Google search bot farm, and we already know how shit Google is to use, why is a million searches through it better than 1? It can’t code for shit, each patch Blizzard has put out since AI is has gotten bigger, is worse. At its best it made funny will smith spaghetti videos, because of how shitty they were. Now it’s just a propaganda machine; Our lil digital Himmlers.