AI has become as a deeply polarizing issue on the left, with many people having concerns regarding its reliance on unauthorized training data, displacement of workers, lack of creativity, and environmental costs.
  • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I respect the attempt and the premise that Marxists never oppose tech on principle but this article is written after the war. Deep-learning-based data generation technology has reached stagnation and now we now know that:

    • it’s quicker to code by yourself, Copilot is shit and vibe coding produces unusable crap
    • AI images will always have this distinct shitty look and be inexploitable due to inconsistency
    • their writing will always be sloppy and incoherent on the long run
    • they can’t analyse a big data set for you, all they do is hallucinante shit from the data they’re trained on

    So best thing an AI can do is help you with inspiration, a bit like being unable to choose between two dishes for your lunch and tossing a coin. It’s a technological brainstorming helper. It’s not a game changer by any means.

    • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      it’s quicker to code by yourself, Copilot is shit and vibe coding produces unusable crap

      It really depends on the developer. Some can certainly produce work faster with tools and it slows some down. The research on this really isn’t there yet, as the METR study found a decrease and the Cui study found an increase (although both have some pretty major flaws, especially the METR study’s sample size of 16).

      Images haven’t reached their stagnation yet, and video generation is getting really good. You have almost definitely seen AI videos or images without realizing.

      You’re right that it’s overhyped, but not nearly to the extent that you’re suggesting.