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Alt text: A rocket engine attached to a train. The rocket is labeled "AI" and the train labeled "Enshittification train".

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (2 children)

AI's most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years

Always the plan, funnily enough. They didn't necessarily know what they'd need the data for, just knew it was valuable and should be sucked up and saved until the opportunity presented itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Check out the latest episode of the excellent podcast “Search Engine”… Very much relevant and very much terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can I just make a special note of appreciation that this image is not itself AI generated. *golf clap

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

I've never used an AI image generator, so why start now? lol. Though I did use Google image search to find "train with rocket on it" which probably does use ML under the hood to classify images. So it's not completely devoid of irony lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Another benefit of the deGoogled movement and moving to more FOSS alternatives is that you're largely immune to these sort of things!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

LLM coding AI is a really useful tool, not enshitification. They're also entirely optional. Way different then shoving it into random products and services without consent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Should be the enshittification yacht (Nestle logos NASCAR style). Runs on water.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

A handful of already obscenely wealthy people will get vastly more wealthy and we'll all be stuck with the shit "products" they've ruined with AI... Totally not a broken system we have.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Go fast and burn the customers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Bullet train to the brain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ai has potential in databases.

[–] Willy 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

for/and levels of health science never imaginable.

let's not forget tnt was both a great and awful invention. I know this is different but there is no putting the genie back in the bottle.

ai will be the new normal for as long as there is normal. all y'all saying its stupid or a fad are like the people who said the same at the beginning of the net.

speaking of which, without the net we couldn't have ai. or at least LLMs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Willy 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does that mean? Sorry, I’m sincerely curious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

my attention refuses to read your comment

[–] Willy 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does that mean? Sorry, I’m sincerely curious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Its the equivalent of putting his hands on his ears and screaming childish babbling to drown you out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

it takes me multiple attempts to read it.

[–] Willy 0 points 6 months ago

AI will revolutionize health science in ways previously unimaginable.

Let's not forget that TNT was both a remarkable and terrible invention. While this situation is different, there's no turning back now.

AI will become the new normal for as long as there is a "normal." Those dismissing it as stupid or a fad are like the skeptics at the dawn of the internet.

Speaking of which, without the internet, AI—especially large language models—wouldn't exist.

[–] Willy 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah. It’s not well written. Should have had AI correct it. Follow-up coming soon.