The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems.

[tidalflats@mastodon.coffee]

@tante @frank

https://dn710709.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheFeelingOfPower/The%20Feeling%20of%20Power.pdf
- Isaac Asimov, 1958

[musiquenow@todon.eu]

@tante

#SamAltman, #AlexKarp, #PeterThiel #MarkZuckerberg, etc MUST BE STOPPED!!!

#Tech #BugRech #BillionairesSUCK ##TechBillionairesSUCK #Grift #Capitalism

[bjb@fosstodon.org]

@tante

Not just "AI". I can't believe people rush to subscribe to taps where techbros siphon our money.

You want to call people? There's a subscription for that. You want to listen to music/watch movies? There's a subscription for that. You want to have a door camera? There's a subscription for that. You want to make dinner? There's a subscription for that. You want to edit documents? There's a subscription for that. You want to learn a language? There's a subscription for that.

[awkapuma@mastodon.social]

@tante

Clarifications to billionaires:
Water and electricity are not services, they are HUMAN RIGHTS. Without those two things, people go back to middle age and/or die.

The so-called "artificial intelligence" has NOTHING intelligent about it. Comparing a computer program to the human brain is a marketing and propaganda operation.

Rich people think Human Rights are just "services" they can cut off if you dont pay.
Sadly, they convinced many people that that is true.

[_chris_real@kolektiva.social]

@tante

Just the trouble I went through to watch that clip (gatekeepers who are easily challenged by consumers with demands, lol) shows you how they can't make this powerful, unless you pay for it.

It's like the encryption app that won't work unless all your friends use it—and they all don't.

Our strength in our convictions, leading to our purchasing choices, IS their Achilles Heel.

Lenovo just defaulted all their Thinkpads to Linux Ubuntu, all on their own, only as the result of consumer complaints about the latest Microsoft release.

[janantos@f.cz]

@tante I have a dream, AI can help us and can be helpful tool, but needs to be in hands of people not corporations. imagine something like distributed LLM running some federated way, allowing parcitipants to prompt for exchange of some small portion of compute time of their machine. Trained the same way. Project seti[at]home can be inspiration. And yep I know I have declare now myself as enemy of state and fediverse, but I truly believe this shall be way. We can eradicate AI datacenters, distribute energy usage cross world, save water and destroy that technobross seizure of our future.

[petesmom@kolektiva.social]

@tante
I cannot express enough how disgusting and inhuman I believe Sam's statement is. There needs to be an island for folx who have chosen not to engage as humans with other humans. That this is presented as a normal human being with a normal human thought is mind boggling.

[gary_alderson@infosec.exchange]

@tante how many tokens do you really need when they are practically free and you have some time to kill? they are already losing billions, the toxic combo of bill, sam, and elon has effectively killed any hopes of acting in good will or good faith with these guys. There are alternatives, i think it is going to take small biz a few years but viable alternatives will crop up that will alter opportunity cost, cut out the middleman #frank is dead #fair use LV

[ftranschel@norden.social]

@lritter @tante I think the answer to this question may put you in despair.

But don't fret; even good ol' Marie Antoinette already had an answer for that.

[omegapolice@hachyderm.io]

@tante They're already halfway done in some places. Some folks can't read, write, or do basic arithmetics without tool support anymore. Let alone summarize, argue, or conceptualize.

[ponygirl@mastodon.social]

@tante Click click...

[classwario@mastodon.social]

@ftranschel @lritter @tante despair aside (despair may be a luxury when compared to survival), I think you hit it on the head. Deskill to rent back skill but no skill means no money to buy back.

It’s like selling a home while you’re sleeping it.

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@tante

The love of money is the root of insanity.

This is exhibit A.

#AI #Insanity #Money

[not3ottersinacoat@mastodon.social]

@Petesmom @tante Your island idea is too generous. I'd be happy to see someone drag them out of their mansions and beat them to death in the streets.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@tante

Making money out of something that now is freely available and is stolen by them...
knowledge.

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@tante Rick Beato - of all people - made me much more optimistic this morning when he pointed out that far from "owning" the LLMs, all the tech bro companies will go the way of the big expensive music studios when everyone ends up doing it themselves on their own laptop. Excellent point well made, I think...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLnnoZPALI

[johncrowden@mstdn.ca]

@strayhorse @patrick_h_lauke @tante Beato. Interesting guy.

[ruston@mstdn.ca]

@tante The ones controlling the power want to ensure that those beneath them are uneducated and non critical thinkers. We are not progressing we are in fact going backwards.

[quasit@kolektiva.social]

@tante
Perhaps they will make it illegal to be educated. They could treat it as theft of the intellectual property of the elite. I suppose the punishment would be lobotomy!

[samiamsam@mastodon.social]

@tante

techbroligarchs really are fucking idiots

i have no fucking idea way anyone listens to any of them

*head desk*