I don’t count productivity or coding as a net good for what it’s worth. Fun, sure, but it’s truly incredible how the influx of AI hasn’t been used to create a more efficient way to distribute resources irl
Tech bros are a scourge on humanity and I truly wish for nothing but the worst for them
it has practical applications but like 90% of them are not in the fields it is being used in. we could train lumberjack robots and automated mining drones with this shit but that’s hard so we just decided to steal art and automate one of the few things almost all humans actually enjoy doing (yes there are people who enjoy cutting wood and mining but at least they’re not the majority of humanity)
honestly im not sure if automating labor in general is worth it. something about labor metabolizing human’s relationship with nature or something. and i say this as someone who hates work.
it would be great as a way to basically “cover” for disabled people though, allowing us to be a primarily non-automated society that also doesn’t have to make decisions about what sick or disabled people to care for (we could care for all of them)
edit: i changed my mind again (though the thing about getting resources to take care of all disabled people is still true ofc), I think automation is good but it needs to be designed by and controlled by the people who enjoy doing the things it’s automating.
This way it would function as an extension of people, like IRL qol mods, rather than a replacement, so instead of getting rid of labor which many people actively find fulfillment in, we just remove the parts people don’t like doing, and what those parts are would be decided democratically (and in many places not even universally, so what would be considered reasonable to automate would change from place to place etc, allowing people who want to do those things to just move somewhere else to a community that vibes with them more).
The way actual AI art functions now is as an extension of human artists, not a replacement. You can’t just wind up the algo and watch it go, not only does it require curation and inpainting and touch ups, but it also requires an artistic vision that can only come from an artist. Without an artist it just churns out bland content, inherently derivative and filled with errors.
My only problem with AI-assisted art is that people who don’t have any artistic taste, like managers, think that it’s good enough to replace artists. That’s not the technology’s fault, though.
The way actual AI art functions now is as an extension of human artists, not a replacement. You can’t just wind up the algo and watch it go, not only does it require curation and inpainting and touch ups, but it also requires an artistic vision that can only come from an artist. Without an artist it just churns out bland content, inherently derivative and filled with errors.
Yeah except… the latter thing you mentioned is what companies want, because they care more about profit than producing things.
Plus the “always just a recreation of existing cultural perspectives” thing is true too. There isn’t really a way around that in it’s current form. I think any tech nerds who are lefty should have the goal to implement more ways for artists to reinterpret and include their own views in what the AI is creating
it would be great as a way to basically “cover” for disabled people though, allowing us to be a primarily non-automated society that also doesn’t have to make decisions about what sick or disabled people to care for (we could care for all of them)
we’ve always been able to do that, we don’t need the power of A.I. to automate even more labor
They need this shit to take off and become a growth industry, they’re running out of places to put their money. Blockchain hype is dead and this is the new hotness, so everyone is getting on board and selling their bored apes to invest.
Crypto is back lmao, I think Bitcoin reached all time highs a few months ago
Bitcoin is ‘back’ but no one will ever buy into it the way they did back in 2020, people understand it works like a stock now. I can see it doubling in the next decade, so maybe a better ROI than the market, but I don’t see it, but there is no way we are going to see it going to million like people were talking about back in 2020. I could be wrong about that, but the vibes are not there.
Honestly I think it can and will be a revolutionary technology once certain enabling breakthroughs are made that allow it to interact more meaningfully with other systems without human intervention, and creating learning data sets that work for each use case with as minimal error chance as possible.
As always though, it’s capitalism that’s the real problem not the technology itself. Under socialism, we could be automating absolutely everything, saving up our labour power to deal with other problems and correcting the AI’s occasional mistakes, but under capitalism any use case will only be implemented because it’s profitable, and all the labour power saved will be wasted in the standing army of the unemployed working class.
Also under capitalism making sure that the AI is safe is very costly so the few of us that have to be sacrificed will be worth it for them to rack in the profits.
LLMs dont help productivity or coding, all it does is make it easier to generate spam. If anything it hinders productivity as good hours are spent making dumb powerpoints bc some McKinney vampires convinced management to “get out in front of this AI thing”
It’s funny how AI’s top priority is to do all the creative jobs, but no one seems to be in any rush to replace CEOs with AI. CEOs and shareholders alike are super expensive, why not them?
