Ironically you just said that artists are wrong to be concerned.

maybe it’s cause the models are beginning to consume their own slop.

That’s going to be a huge issue indeed because synthetic data contains bias and it’s proven that produced biased models.

Absolutely correct.

One random example: where I work, CVs are being filtered by an AI before they are opened by a human reducing the volume to a 20% of potentially good candidates. In that 20% there is always someone to hire, so it doesn’t matter if a good candidate is lost in the AI filter. Failing to optimize the CV for AI literally means being left behind.

Hive mind.

It is unimaginative

Can you make an example of something 100% original that was not inspired by anything that came before?

The short answer is copyright theft, energy consumption, and job displacement. While all those issues are 100% correct, there is also a huge unspoken factor of “you must be against it otherwise you are a brainwashed idiot” because, let’s be honest, the hive mind is real.

Most of the modern no-AI luddites fail to understand that AI has been around for decades in various forms and this is just the last, most visible incarnation. It is here to stay, and it will grow as well. At this rate of adoption, in a few years it will be as normal as having a mobile phone (they weren’t around only 20 years ago).

My humble prediction is that all the concerns around AI will be addressed with time by better hardware, better cooling mechanism, better energy production, different jobs that will leverage AI instead of competing with it, and surely also the copyright will find a new balance (just like MP3, Napster, and Spotify did not kill the music industry).

By the way, AI doesn’t spy on you. An AI model is immutable once it’s trained. The software using the model is spying on you, but that’s true for any scumbag-driven software you use. It is essentially the same typing your secrets in Google Docs or in ChatGPT.

This is just great 👏

Isn’t it wild how so many Americans do not understand how tariffs work?

.ml and shit talking communism.

Actually the worst appears to be hexbear that I blocked entirely.

Quite frankly I don’t care much. I actually enjoy being exposed to different views, and I can ignore extremism quite easily.

What about the insider trading of all Trump’s circle?

Even worse then: no point in imposing tariffs to encourage local production.

Please remember that every time he announces something, even if doesn’t happen, the market fluctuates. If you know in advance, you can profit. The Trump administrator is constantly committing insider trading.

No. He uses directly the White House account on X for that BS.

It can be toxic here too. I had my misadventure with a bunch of “experts” absolutely sure that the future is communism and “stupid you brainwashed fool” if you don’t get it.

Didn’t the Americans impeach Clinton simply for hiding that he got a blowjob?

How can you tell it’s sarcasm when the POTUS himself says stuff like that?

and why would you need them back

Exactly! What’s the endgame here?

The only explanation I have is that in his (and Musk’s) mind all intellectual jobs will be replaced by AI, and the US will need to shift everybody to manual jobs to assemble stuff. It’s so stupid and dystopic that it may even be true.

Except that even if you buy 100% American products, those selling them may not. When inflation happens, it happens for everyone.

Unless of course you talk about the perfect MAGA in a self-sufficient farm in the middle of nowhere, with a tinfoil hat and a cork in his ass against alien probes.

Wait until MAGA-fans will find out how tariffs work.

…oh yeah, that implies being able to do math.

That’s true. Tariff will likely decrease the demand of some products that have an elastic demand. The result will be that Americans will pay 15% more for all the products, for some they will buy alternatives (where they exists) or less, and Europe will need to increase the market in the rest of the world for the share of products that cannot be sold anymore. In the short term it will likely hurt Europe too, but in the long term the impact will be basically only on the US.