• LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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    4110 months ago

    I’ve hesitated to ever write anything about it thinking it’d come across as too yells-at-cloud or Luddite, but this comment kind of inspired me to flesh out something that’s been simmering in the back of my head ever since LLMs became kelly latest fad after the NFT boom.

    One of the most unnerving things to me about “AI” in the common understanding is that its entire hype cycle and main use cases are all tacit admissions that all of the professional and academic uses of it are proof that their pre-“AI” standards were perfunctory hoop jumping bullshit to join the professional managerial class, and their “artistic” uses are almost entirely utilized by people with zero artistic sensibilities or weirdo porno sickos. All of it belies a deep cynicism about the status quo where what could have been heartfelt but clumsy writing by young students or the athlete in your example are being unknowingly robbed of their agency and the humanizing future of looking back on clunky immature writing as a personal marker of growth. They’re just hoops to jump through to get whatever degree or accolade you’re seeking, with whatever personal growth that those achievements originally meant stripped of anything other than “achieving them is good because it advances your career and earning potential.” Techbros’ most fawning and optimistic pitches of “AI” and “The Singularity” instead read to me as the grimmest and most alienating version of neoliberal “end of history” horseshit where even art and language themselves are reduced to SEO marketized min/maxxed rat races.

    I hope this doesn’t sound too a-guy but I had to get that rant out

    Maybe I’ll expand that into something

      • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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        210 months ago

        I’m barely better than meemaw when it comes to tech literacy, what’s the best platform for stuff like that? Is Medium bad? I’ve installed a Linux distro before but basically just want to rant and take pictures of my cats clueless

        • Medium is also “bad” but it does put your posts out into an algorithm. Kiiiind of. Everyone ends up deleting them. I just use long Mastodon/forks posts (I make a lot of accounts on every activitypub server tbqh just for gimmicks and things) but 5,000 is not a lot of characters so I also link to Firefish Pages. Easy to make server with 50,000 for personal use at least which is a bit better for longform.

          I think the best option on ActivityPub is https://writefreely.org/ you can also generally find a way to seamlessly retweet things like Lemmy linkposts or Writefreely blogs on Mastodon/Firefish whatever fork

          Not very technically savvy at all over here it’s just pretty online