For those who don’t want to use Substack, the article is also posted here:
https://formerlytomato.codeberg.page/posts/shortposts/newsletter/chatgpt-black-box/
AI craze? No joke, my brother’s birthday is tomorrow. I asked chatgpt to create a cartoon of him, asked tropo to turn that into a 3d model and printed a model of him as a cartoon. A totally exclusive and awesome little model of.him. I’m sorry, I work in cyber and I still have my mind blown from the infinite possibilities and how much you can fast track a process. When I started High school we didn’t had Internet and Iphones and now I can have anything I imagine in my hands in 2 hours. Fucking awesome
Edit: Just want to add that this was not “praising bilionaires” it was just a comment abut how nice it is to see technologies evolve. I’m not american so I may be ootl here. sorry
If you could imagine it, you wouldn’t have to ask a robot to imagine it for you.
I also work in “cyber” and my mind only gets blown by how the infinite possibilities have been constrained to only those which generate profits for middlemen and how the only processes that get fast-tracked are the ones designed to squeeze more profit out of the same customer base.
Wow calm down fidel. You are taking this to a very political side. I’m not american btw. I’m talking about that it is awesome to see technology evolving so fast and bringing new things to our lifes. Maybe this is a political community and I was wrong to post here but This was not at all a political post
Everything is political, especially new technology. We can’t have a real conversation about generative models without talking about how they impair the creative process, devalue the very concept of art, and are themselves the product of mass copyright infringement, to say nothing of the economic bubble of their overinvestment or all the people being put out of work by asshole bosses who still think they can replace them with LLMs and GANs.
I do genuinely hope that your brother was delighted by your gift, but I’d be disappointed in my brother if he gifted such a thing to me. A handwritten letter would show more care and attention than a computationally-derived and automatically-fabricated figurine.
You’re out of your mind.
Yeah, he must be having a hard time.
Fair point I should try to be better about that. Just irritated that they made such a thoughtful gift so unnecessarily negative simply because you used a tool to help you that they don’t like.
Yeah I saw I posted in a political sub and regreted lol But at a certain point I stop getting angry and just get sad for them.
I’m sorry to hear that, if everything is political to you I imagine you must be experiencing a very hard life situation. I don’t have a reason to make it all political because in my country we have a lot of support from the Gov.
impair the creative process
Not for me. It was a tool to help me execute my creativity a lot like photoshop. I didn’t had to spend 3/4 days modeling.
copyright infringement
Well I don’t have a word here because I pirate shows, movies, book etc. Have you ever?!
asshole bosses
My boss can’t really do that in my country because we have strict labour laws and very powerful unions, if that is not your experience your country should vote better
I’d be dosappointed
well besides the fact that you suck the joy out of a fun gift, you are focusing on the bad side of tech but a lot of good can come from it. In the 90s we didn’t had DNA technology and new tech + great minds, turned it possible to identify dead bodies, find missing people and murderes, Identify disorders and other genetc problems, and not to mention CRISPR tech that literally cure some cancers and save people. We wouldn’t have all that with only bright minds we also need to support them with technology.
Again if you experience with new tech is so negative, and if “everything is political” to you may be that it’s not a tech problem but a life problem and I really am sorry about that, but again not everyone has the same life experience.
I’m sorry to hear that, if everything is political to you I imagine you must be experiencing a very hard life situation.
I fit the stereotype of the cynical old anarchist to a tee.
I don’t have a reason to make it all political because in my country we have a lot of support from the Gov.
So, you’re saying it is all explicitly political but you get to pretend that it isn’t because… why, exactly?
impair the creative process
Not for me. It was a tool to help me execute my creativity a lot like photoshop. I didn’t had to spend 3/4 days modeling.
Sounds to me like you missed out on 3/4 days of creating artwork and are allowing your creative skills to atrophy just like how people’s critical thinking skills deteriorate when they let LLMs do the thinking for them.
copyright infringement
Well I don’t have a word here because I pirate shows, movies, book etc. Have you ever?!
I’m a furry. We pay our artists very well for their work and get extremely pissed when corporations try to use it without permission or compensation.
asshole bosses
My boss can’t really do that in my country because we have strict labour laws and very powerful unions, if that is not your experience your country should vote better
For who? The only options on the ballot here are all anti-union.
I’d be dosappointed
well besides the fact that you suck the joy out of a fun gift,
One of my partners collects those cheap vinyl figurines that get made of everything. He has never once had fun with them.
you are focusing on the bad side of tech but a lot of good can come from it.
Ah yes, a lot of good can come from making more cheap, flammable tchotchkes to clutter up our houses with.
In the 90s we didn’t had DNA technology and new tech + great minds, turned it possible to identify dead bodies, find missing people and murderes, Identify disorders and other genetc problems, and not to mention CRISPR tech that literally cure some cancers and save people. We wouldn’t have all that with only bright minds we also need to support them with technology.
Lol, sounds like someone is wandering off topic.
Again if you experience with new tech is so negative, and if “everything is political” to you may be that it’s not a tech problem but a life problem
… Please re-read this thing you just wrote, because a “life problem” is exactly what politics is.
and I really am sorry about that, but again not everyone has the same life experience.
I already have to live in a society filled with people like you, you can tolerate a brief reminder that there are people like me. Just accept the fact that we do not share values and move on.
lol.
A-non-I, social media algorithms, etc.
Combined with the increasing complexity of software and operating systems, this creates a creeping mindset of “that’s just how it is, only other computers can understand it” or some such. Which I heartily disagree with.
All the more reason to advocate for Open Source Software.
