I want to let people know why I’m strictly against using AI in everything I do without sounding like an ‘AI vegan’, especially in front of those who are genuinely ready to listen and follow the same.
Any sources I try to find to cite regarding my viewpoint are either mild enough to be considered AI generated themselves or filled with extremist views of the author. I want to explain the situation in an objective manner that is simple to understand and also alarming enough for them to take action.
Generative AI isn’t really useful except for slop.
It’s kind of a cool idea to use it for finding unknown chemicals and stuff like that, but for media and most other uses it’s been a travesty
Generative AI, sure, seems to be hard to find anything remotely useful for that (+the environment impact etc is stupidly high).
But neural networks are used everywhere in research, fast, cheap (a 2k€ graphic card can do it) and better than any other machine learning.
I’m not disagreing here, just pointing out all AI is not bad.
Neural Networks are Machine Learning
I think a lot of the things we used Machine Learning and LLMs for are good ideas, but we were doing that before we slapped them together and called it AI
Or people stopped calling machine learning AI, and tried to hype the NN with it. Then switched AI to language models and generative networks.
I mean Deep blue was AI back in the day, and so was pathfinders 🤷🏻♀️
Anyway, I’m not arguing with you.
You’re right that AI is used now because marketing teams started calling it that.