I remember when I suggested that I shouldn’t learn to write in 1998, because you can just type on the computer, I was laughed at. I was told that at best I’d still need to learn to write, and at worst computers can turn out as a fad due to them requiring electricity to work, they can crash and go bad, etc. Pease note that my dislike of writing was heavily influenced by likely having dyspraxia, and a lot of cheaper pens/pencils being mildly painful to hold.
However, the very same people are now disencouraging anything that the AI is promised to replace. Don’t draw, just use Dall-E. Don’t code, just use ChatGPT. Don’t play music, just use Suno. Don’t make movies, just wait until it can do it good enough. The music one is even often being pushed by those who absolutely despised electronic music for “not requiring any talent, just pressing buttons”, all while AI music is literally what ignorant rock/metal kids thought electronic music production was. Even one person, who criticized me for using amp sims on my PC instead of a wall of tube amplifiers is more favorable than not towards AI music.
I wonder if those who now disencourage art classes in favor of a short lesson on how to prompt an image generator will also disencourage writing due to speech-to-text technologies. Maybe the problem is that they don’t use LLMs, but often a more primitive version of neural networks.
And I’m not 100% against new tools. I even use Neural Amp Modeler, sometimes even two instances with one having a Boss HM-2 response for that Swedish chainsaw tone. But these prompt machines are barely more than toys for real professional work, due to the lack of actual control beyond prompting.
I think that the reason behind this is twofold
AI by itself is amazing, and is being used in thousands of ways to tangibly improve the world. The problem is when capitalists get their greedy authoritarian hands on any technology, they try to squeeze as much power and money out of it at the expense of the common person.
they also have to try and sell it as a product, which AI hasnt done at all, its just being crammed into everything when its not asked.
I just said this to someone else in this community which shows maybe yall aren’t the most informed: AI has been in thousands of highly successful products for over a decade. I think you just see the headlines without knowing the industry as a whole.
Oh look! Another person who feigns incomprehension of things like “context” and “common parlance” so they can pretend they’re smart!
In my world, it is common parlance to use the word correctly. I’m worried the general public just sees “AI is ruining X” and are the poisoned against anything that’s actually AI, not just profit-motivated chatbots to sell more plastic bullshit.
Define “correctly”. Who, precisely gets to decide what is “correct” and what is “incorrect” in the bizarre little world you appear to inhabit like one of the weird people the Little Prince visits in his journey?
For example, do you apply the word “bug” only to Hemiptera and vigorously correct anybody who uses “bug” to refer to, say, a ladybug (Coleoptera) or a housefly (Diptera)? Or did you know that, in fact, the word “ladybug” is flatly incorrect (in scientific nomenclature) and rant about the very name when people talk about their gardens on discussion boards?
Me, personally, I think you’re full of shit. You flex your so-called “expertise” in the one very narrow, profusely-strewn-with-bullshit you have some knowledge in and try to act all big-brained to bolster a flagging ego (among other flagging bodily parts) while you merrily go through life “incorrectly” calling ants (Hymenoptera) bugs.
All while somehow never managing to answer the very first question I asked: who gets to decide what’s “correct” in the first place?
You’re a sad, little troll and, worst of all, you’re not even good at it. You’re just pathetic.
I wanna add:
Totally valid. This is hopefully what ends up regulating the tech, total alienation.
God knows the government’s not going to do it.