"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_. Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost?
OpenAI wanting the US government to take 5% is not "democratization" or something, it's a bailout. OpenAI can't get the money from private investors or the stock market and needs the hole in their budget filled so they are trying to take US tax dollars.
> The use of AI Coding Assistants in software development is as of now widely regarded as industry best practice That is exactly why software development as an industry is such a shit show and explicitly not engineering.
It's weird how every little automation is an "agent" these days. Weird LLM that tags your uploaded photo: Agent. A sequence of filters and pipes in a shell: Agent. Pre-saved prompt: Agent. "AI" burns through terms quicker than even crypto did.
Exports control on Anthropic's current model just shows what a dumb kind of suckers the US government is these days. They fell for Anthropic's false advertising and the ban just makes Anthropic's model look more capable than it is.
Just read that Estland is planning to give "AI"-Agents E-IDs comparable to the IDs people get. The fact that "AI" as a narrative is used to undermine human rights and dignity in order to allow even more creep of non-democratic technology into our lives is really undeniable these days.
Just occurred to me: When you _SEARCH_ you want to _FIND_ _AN EXISTING THING_. Like the idea of adding "generative" into that literally makes no sense.
So now I read the Bregman "We need to embrace AI" piece and seriously? That's the best that capitalist centrism can provide? This is obviously heavily edited by "AI": The whole non-sequitur structure, the lack of actual arguments. Pathetic.
We sometimes fall into the trap of distinguishing art from "AI" slop based on the effort and work the artist put in. But of course that's not fully it: You can spend a lot of time iterating with an LLM and it's probably still not art.
(I know it's not the intention but seeing someone post something cool here about anything and then seeing the "AI hater" Tag just makes me happy. Like every person with an interesting perspective of fascinating hobby carries that tag.)
