Beep boop, keywords detected. Yes indeed

Damn you caught me

Try explaining that last one to someone over the phone

The only use I see of these VPN’s are for pretending you’re in a different country. Like if you’re in the UK and want to visit some spicy websites without sending them a picture of your face.

By fidelity for an hour to try and get it right you can save 5min of reading the instructions

Brave of you to use AI on Lemmy

You’ll probably het down voted because of the AI = Bad mentality here.

Even though you’ve used it in a useful way to provide a transcript, which if people read instead of watching the video would probably save electricity

*Me about to jump off a bridge and end it all.

Me: Dammit even here?! Sad stranger: What?
Me: Nevermind it’s fine, you jump first I’ll wait

Lemmy moment

A lot of software devs also use it to find the right syntax for something, or to add more unit tests etc.

LLMs are very useful, thats just a really you have we accept, I wish it was never invented, but it’s here and it’s here to stay.

I myself find it very useful, I tried to deny ot at first but you have to accept reality

Do you ever use Wikipedia to look up something that is in your library?

By your logic a lot of Wikipedia is useless, you can just go to a library and look up the information in books.

LLm’s provide an actual useful service, else people wouldn’t be paying to use them.

Pretending it isn’t is rediculous.

With that logic we should all stop watching YouTube and Netflix because it’s so damaging to the environment (much more than AI)

What I’m saying is when it comes to climate change we should be focusing our energy where it matters.

Most countries still burn coal, we should be angry about that, AI is insignificant compared to that.

AI is however a massive privacy and copyright issue, there we can focus on regulation

I might get crucified for saying this on Lemmy

But I don’t see the energy issue as a real issue. I feel that is just the AI = Bad mentality looking for reasons to hate AI

If you compare it to other things, it’s a drop in the bucket

• 1 kg Beef = 60kg CO2 - source
• 1000km Return flight = 314kg CO2 - source
• 1 Bitcoin transaction = 645kg of CO2 - source
• 1000 AI prompts = 3kg of CO2 - source including training

Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of reasons to hate AI

Before I probably get attacked for these valid points, I just want to say I’m not Pro-AI (look at my history) There are plenty of valid reasons to be Anti-AI like Privacy, Copyright and many more, but the argument for the environment is a very weak one when you compare it to other things we aren’t as upset about like flying.

Any technology can be good or bad depending on how it’s used. The way corporations are shoving AI in anywhere they can, and stealing peoples content to train them etc. is bad. So is the privacy concerns.

But LLMs aren’t necessarily bad, and can be good depending on how they are built and used.

I was the one who posted the ‘AI = BAD’ meme. And while I do think Lemmy is overly Anti-AI, and have some very poor arguments that they should stop using because it discredits us.

There are also many valid arguments to be Anti-AI like Privacy etc.

What drove me to the ‘companies be like’ meme was this
WTF is AI doing in my beer?

Is this a joke? 😅

One job

Yes, but how would his ~13 year old friends get into a strip club?

And even if they did, probably only his close friends know what his mom looks like, and likely won’t even recognise her in that setting

How is his ~13 year old friends going to go to a strip club?

And even if they did, the vast majority probably doesn’t know what she looks and even if they did there is a good chance they wouldn’t recognise her

This was the move The Substance for me.

The first bit was alright, but I really regretted watching it towards the end