Showerthoughts VerbFlow • 1 week ago • 97%

I know this sounds pretentious (which is quite ironic), but this is something I've noticed about the internet. You never read about what someone does, only what they say. You hear politicians claim that they'll fix the economy, or celebrities make speeches about what they feel like, or what "message" a fictional movie has being discussed over and over, but none of that matters, because it's all saying and no doing!

Enough Musk Spam VerbFlow • 1 week ago • 93%

I made this myself on GIMP with some wallpaper

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 3 weeks ago • 97%

www.tomshardware.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19178497 > [RAND Report - The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed](https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html)

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 1 month ago • 66%

I recieved a comment from someone telling me that one of my posts had bad definitions, and he was right. Despite the massive problems caused by AI, it's important to specify what an AI does, how it is used, for what reason, and what type of people use it. I suppose judges might already be doing this, but regardless, an AI used by one dude for personal entertainment is different than a program used by a megacorporation to replace human workers, and must be judged differently. Here, then, are some specifications. If these are still too vague, please help with them. a. What does the AI do? 1. It takes in a dataset of images, specified by a prompt, and compiles them into a single image thru programming (like StaDiff, Dall-E, &c); 2. It takes in a dataset of text, specified by a prompt, and compiles that into a single string of text (like ChatGPT, Gemini, &c); 3. It takes in a dataset of sound samples, specified by a prompt, and compiles that into a single sound (like AIVA, MuseNet, &c). b. What is the AI used for? 1. It is used for drollery (applicable to a1 and a2); 2. It is used for pornography (a1); 3. It is used to replace stock images (a1); 4. It is used to write apologies (a2); 5. It is used to write scientific papers (this actually happened. a2); 6. It is used to replace illustration that the user would've done themselves (a1); 7. It is used to replace illustration by a wage-laborer (a1); 8. It is used to write physical books to print out (a2); 9. It is used to mock and degrade persons (a1, a3); 10. It is used to mock and degrade persons sexually (a1, a3); 11. It is used for propaganda (a1, a2, a3). c. Who is using the AI? 1. A lower-class to middle-class person; 2. An upper-class person; 3. A small business; 4. A large business; 5. An anonymous person; 6. An organization dedicated to shifting public perception. This was really tough to do. I'll see if I can touch up on it myself. As of now, Lemmy cannot do lists in lists.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 1 month ago • 75%

I was originally going to put this into the Log, but it might be unwelcome. You want a way to rattle image-generation Boosters? Most of the arguments they use can be used to defend Googling an image and putting a filter over it. - "All forms of media take inspiration from one another, so that means it's fine to Google another image, download it, and apply a filter to call it mine!" - "Artists are really privilieged, so it's morally OK to take their art and filter it!" - "Using filtered images I downloaded from Google for game sprites will help me finish my game faster!" - "I suck at drawing, so I have to resort to taking images from people who can draw and filtering them!" - "People saying that my filtered images aren't art are tyrannical! I deserve to have my filtered images be seen as equal to hand-drawn ones!" AI Boosters use a standard motte-and-bailey doctrine to assert the right to steal art and put it into a dataset, yet entice people to buy their generated images. When Boosters want people to invest in AI, they occupy the bailey and say that "AI is faster and better than drawing by hand". When Boosters are confronted with their ethical problems, as shown above, they retreat into the motte and complain that "it takes tons of time and work to make the AI do what I want". Remember this when you find Boosters. Or don't, since I doubt the sites where they lurk are worth your time.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 1 month ago • 94%

First of all, this c has absolutely skyrocketed in the coming years. I made it in a panic. (I was worried that AI would bedazzle everyone, everyone would be onboard, and it would ruin everything forever.) Although a lot of what I feared didn't happen, I'm still glad to have made this thing. I don't know if this sub is going to be brigaded by Boosters like it was early on, or if they'll try some sort of cyberattack, but the reason I appointed so many moderators was because I was worried that Boosters would come in, try some bad-faith tactics, and screw over any resistance against AI. I now realize that having a pro-AI "camp" is misleading. Adopting any new technology must prove itself to be worth its cost. There have been patents, like [Flexplay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay), or [Tetraethyllead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead), that are not worth their cost. What Boosters are saying is that, if you oppose the use of Flexplay of Tetraethyllead, you are in an "anti-Flexplay" or "anti-Tetraethyllead" camp, and if you can't come up with a convincing argument against it, you should just accept the technology. Since it's been a while since my last log, and the c has changed, I don't think this will be brigaded.

Just Post VerbFlow • 2 months ago • 100%

It's really cool seeing all this old stuff. These are still downloadable, by the way.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 3 months ago • 89%

After seeing the enormous attention that has been given to this community, I'm glad to present this list of articles lost in the early years. I'm not sure if it has been purposely sabotaged, or if people just didn't like it. Some of it shows a lot of hope. Just like the bourgoise attempts to get a surplus value out of the proletariat without compensation, so too does the AI Prompter attempt to get a similar surplus value out of an artist. Maybe it is the same thing! The articles marked by a letter M (for Marx) will describe this process. [Adam Savage's Issue With A.I.-Generated Art](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=usEkSlT-SYA&listen=false) [Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI | BEHIND THE BASTARDS](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=m75SAPSrDjc) [Law enforcement struggling to prosecute AI-generated CSAM](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4530044-law-enforcement-struggling-prosecute-ai-generated-child-porn-asks-congress-act/) [(M) In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From](https://futurism.com/video-openai-cto-sora-training-data) [AI Hype Wall of Shame](https://criticalai.org/the-ai-hype-wall-of-shame/) [(M) The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core](https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=-MUEXGaxFDA) [(M) AI Is a Lot of Work](https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots) [How much electricity does AI consume?](https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption) [(M) OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game (Archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20240522000654/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/openai-scarlett-johansson-sky/678446/) [Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash](https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/28/24141585/meta-ai-advantage-plus-automated-ad-glitch-cpm) [Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?](https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/) [(M) AI Startups Are Suddenly In Big Trouble](https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-startups-money-trouble) [(M) Artists Sue Google Over Its AI Image Generator](https://futurism.com/the-byte/artists-sue-google-image-generator) [Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”](https://www.publicbooks.org/now-the-humanities-can-disrupt-ai/) # If you have any missing articles, comment it for a second version of this post. # P.S. If the Invidious link doesn't work, switch the instance. P.P.S. After searching for the best articles to include, I noticed that the pagation for Lemmy needs a "back button", tho, I'm pretty busy with other stuff.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 4 months ago • 50%

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Fuck AI VerbFlow • 5 months ago • 50%

I just want to say that, for some reason, there's been a lot of downvotes on articles, and no comments. Why is this? What is bothering people about the Operations Log? I can help people who criticize a post, but not people who simply downvote it. Everyone opposed to image theft is allowed here, and your opinion *will* be listened to. Please say something instead of just downvoting. Upvotes without comments are a similar problem, but I want to fix things that are wrong. And if you're downvoting this because it shows up in your feed and you don't want it, just say so. I have a hunch that it's Boosters fueling their agenda, or Doomers having nihilistic fun, but you can't trust hunches.

Software Gore VerbFlow • 5 months ago • 65%

I was trying to browse the site, and I think it might be faced with a few problems.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 5 months ago • 50%

So I've talked in an Operations Log about defining AI, and I'm glad we're getting close to defining what the "AI" in "Fuck AI" is more specifically, because I see that, in programs like MdJ, StD, and ChatGPT, there is an element of class warfare in it. I really want tech workers to pile in here, because the entire success of these programs -- those in which a prompt is written, and an uncannily detailed image is made, or a long yet coherent passage is typed -- **is built entirely on the efforts of workers.** The reason I want to delineate AI from other things is because programs like the [A-star algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm), autocorrect, 3D modeling programs, and Vocaloids do not require an absurd amount of data to operate. [This article here](https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots) most certainly explains why everything works so smoothly, [as does this,](https://afrotech.com/kenyan-workers-openai-chatgpt) and there is a book called [Ghost Work](https://ghostwork.info/) that I'm going to read after my current one which illuminates a massive, hidden proletariat beneath the Silicon Valley bourgoise. If you are an artist whose work has been scraped, you can probably add to this testimony. I had a hunch about AI being not as mighty as it seemed, and altho it's not wise to trust hunches, those articles, along with ones I sent to this community daily, prove thus: No technological capability of AI can exist without the labor-value of countless workers, whether taken from previous commodities (scraped images and text), or taken from workers continually (the business investigated by Dzeiza). If you are an illlustrator, photographer, author, or other artist whose work was scraped, or someone else whose field is going to be "replaced with AI", this means *you!* Yes, *you* are the proletariat! Just like how a factory worker is only paid by how little the robber baron can get away with, so too are you only paid by how little a tech-bro can get away with.^n1^ And when there's a machine that a tech-bro can use to pay you nothing at all for your work, they will gladly use that machine. I know that Marxism may be misappropriated by regions across the world, or that there are Tankies who champion Marxism but do not advance worker's rights. Well, if a Booster claims to be a Marxist, I will not believe them. AI has allowed people to pluck the labor-power from the proletariat as easily as one would click a mouse. I'm certain that Marxism is an ideal way to discuss why AI can and should be opposed.

Technology VerbFlow • 5 months ago • 86%

This was originally going to be posted on Fuck AI, but it really applies to technology far more generally.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 5 months ago • 91%

I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence. I also want to factor in people who think that there's nothing anyone can do. I've come to realize that there might not be a way to attack OpenAI, MidJourney, or Stable Diffusion. These people, which I will call Doomers from an AIHWOS article, **are perfectly welcome here.** You can certainly come along and read the [AI Hype Wall Of Shame](https://criticalai.org/the-ai-hype-wall-of-shame/), or the [diminishing returns of Deep Learning.](https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-learning-computational-cost) Maybe one can even become a Mod! Boosters, or people who heavily use AI and see it as a source of good, ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE! I've seen Boosters dox, threaten, and harass artists over on Reddit and Twitter, and they constantly champion artists losing their jobs. They go against the very purpose of this community. *If I hear a comment on here saying that AI is "making things good" or cheering on putting anyone out of a job, and the commenter does not retract their statement, said commenter will be permanently banned.* FA&FO.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 5 months ago • 66%

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I agree that the "fruits" of neural networks come from the proletarian artist, because without them, there cannot be any content made of this magnitude. The stunning images created by AI *inherently rely on the labor of artists, so its commodity-value---its visual appeal---is thus identical to the labor-value that was scraped into its dataset.* In layman's terms, the artists made the art, and AI imagery looks good because it was taken from that art.

Fuck AI VerbFlow • 5 months ago • 50%

OTHER SITES: I want to say, right now, that there will be no more discussion of Reddit. I am sorry for those four posts. I hope won't be any Twitter posts; despite AI users posting on Twitter, I'm just as sick of it as you guys are of Reddit (maybe even more so). I've heard, long before Musk bought the site, what people are "doing on Twitter". I'd hear this site *on the AM radio, on TV, on news articles *complete with an embedded link to the tweet,* and in physical books from 2018 onwards.* It isn't just the awful users, it's the mechanics--you can only have 280 characters;you cannot "dislike" a post or comment; and there is a constant loss of tweets that are too old; and the bottomless scrolling. It's as if the site wants you to forget what you saw after a month. WHERE THIS COMMUNITY IS GOING: Still, I've not been having a lot of traffic for this community. I've always thought about making sure everyone knows how awful AI is, and why there should be legal action against it. So, here's what I want to ask: - What kind of posts aren't allowed? Sitewide rules, like "no bigotry", are redundant. - What counts as a good post? Should posts make fun of AI, or should it just be the facts? - Should a more general community, like "Fuck Big Tech", be created? - Should a more narrow community, like "Fuck AI Imagery" or "AI Circlejerk", be created? - What technology counts as AI? Is it the entirety of neural networks, or just some part of it? - How should we deal with people that like AI? MY STANCE: My stance is that the development of Artifical Intelligence, by which I mean digital neural networks designed to perfectly mimic photographs, sounds, and human behavior, should be shut down, paused, or sabotaged as much as possible. I know that some people think that it's going to completely upend society. However, due to the heavy energy costs of the technology relative to the realism and quantity of its output, an ideal start should be shutting down the servers of large developers like OpenAI and Midjourney. Any small-scale project involving AI will have all sorts of telltale signs, so thus its output will be noticeable as AI, and thus cannot fabricate pornography, legal evidence, or steal from human artists. If you have any criticisms, please tell me, but I won't be *liking* AI at all.