I want to let people know why I’m strictly against using AI in everything I do without sounding like an ‘AI vegan’, especially in front of those who are genuinely ready to listen and follow the same.

Any sources I try to find to cite regarding my viewpoint are either mild enough to be considered AI generated themselves or filled with extremist views of the author. I want to explain the situation in an objective manner that is simple to understand and also alarming enough for them to take action.

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      Generative AI isn’t really useful except for slop.

      It’s kind of a cool idea to use it for finding unknown chemicals and stuff like that, but for media and most other uses it’s been a travesty

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        23 hours ago

        Generative AI, sure, seems to be hard to find anything remotely useful for that (+the environment impact etc is stupidly high).

        But neural networks are used everywhere in research, fast, cheap (a 2k€ graphic card can do it) and better than any other machine learning.

        I’m not disagreing here, just pointing out all AI is not bad.

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          21 hours ago

          Neural Networks are Machine Learning

          I think a lot of the things we used Machine Learning and LLMs for are good ideas, but we were doing that before we slapped them together and called it AI

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            19 hours ago

            Or people stopped calling machine learning AI, and tried to hype the NN with it. Then switched AI to language models and generative networks.

            I mean Deep blue was AI back in the day, and so was pathfinders 🤷🏻‍♀️

            Anyway, I’m not arguing with you.