On 5/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, PancakesLover said:Do you mean the chatGPT stuff? I use it a lot, it has been life changing for me. The people who hate on this ID stuff are a bunch of retards, I'm so excited for the future, I even used that art one, its really useful. I don't need to waste my time gathering boring ass reference images anymore, I just tell the AI to crank a bunch, and I ask chatGPT to create prompts for me, then I hand pick the art I like and delete the bad stuff, or I fix the ones with not too many defects. I'm kinda sick of the weird censorship and all the filtering, I'm pretty sure this just makes the AIs dumber, but, for now I can work around it. I didn't trigger it too often, even the AI just seems to ignore the warnings it shows me anyway. I just tell it to do the thing anyway and ignore the warning, and it happily helps out in the end, its kinda funny.
Neural nets have been around for years (we've been using it to upscale old game textures for a while), the current splash is due to the improvement in text bots and image generation, and the current controversy is over the reference material being unethically-sourced. We're also seeing text generators being used to run bots, image generation and voice generators spreading disinformation and impersonating people. Nobody doubts the capability as tools, but we do need conversations about how those tools are used, because they're easily misused.
I bring it up because Yud and his cult of personality mostly just speculate about the robot apocalypse, but since both these things use the word "AI", it's very convenient for the weirdos who want your money.
On 5/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, PancakesLover said:I'll just assume he's a bad person and move on, reading all that stuff doesn't seem like a good use of my time.
Also that wiki seems a bit uh obsessive, it's weirding me out. I don't really want to look at it, I'm not sure how i feel about the people running a website like that, its just giving me a bad vibe. I feel like mentally stable people who have a healthy life would proooobably not be running a wiki about whatever that is.
Okay, "assume he's a bad person and move on" is definitely not a good idea, but I mostly included it because it's well-sourced and I didn't want the things I was saying to sound baseless. Obviously any wiki has a degree of bias, and maybe it is a little weird to fixate on a person in this manner, but I don't think their assessment is incorrect.
On 5/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, PancakesLover said:I don't really know how to reply to the rest of that stuff, I'm not an AI expert anyway, I'm just an AI enjoyer. I'm the type of person who doesn't care about how much disruption something new causes, I enjoy the chaos, I just like to get new stuff.
Well, I mean, this is a discussion about how much disruption something new is causing. If you don't care, I'm not sure what I or anyone else is supposed to do to convince you.
On 5/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, PancakesLover said:Is it that stupid basilisk thing again? It's such a dumb theory, some of that stuff always feels like religion to me, but for "smart" people. Like, it's no different than believing that you will go to hell if you sneeze wrong.
It is essentially pascal's wager but CYBERRRR and not sarcastic, yes.
On 5/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, PancakesLover said:I donlt care about Elon Musk anyway. I always ignored the guy, I never understood why people get so focused on wasting all that energy on someone they don't even like. Why not just do something better with your life? Like eating ice cream, or baking a delicious pancake, mhh hmm.
Rich people with outweighed influence on the world have lasting effects and consequences. This is something that people pay attention to and document, both because it can cause a lot of problems, and because understanding those things is an important step in actually solving problems.
On 5/2/2023 at 12:12 AM, PancakesLover said:Anyway, for all i care, AI can take over the world, it couldn't possibly do a worse job than the humans. Not that...the humans are...trying to do anything, they are just lazying around, waiting for solutions to show up. OH LOOK, A SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEMS SHOWED UP. IT MUST BE THE WORK OF THE DEVIL, DESTROY IT, THOSE EVIL CHAT DEVILS, KILL THEM ALL, IT WILL BRING WRATH ON US ALL, AAGHHH. Humanity is retarded.
I feel like you're not really seeing the forest for the trees here. Objectively, these kind of technological leaps should be a great thing that makes a ton of work easier for everyone. But like all other forms of automation, the system they exist under is rife for abuse. It's good to talk about that