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This is not that. We're not talking about some inane mashup, but a wholesale digestion of every creative thing any person ever did by a monster computer cluster
by titzer 3y ago
This is not that. We're not talking about some inane mashup, but a wholesale digestion of every creative thing any person ever did by a monster computer cluster whose scale dwarfs imagination, which then promptly uses it to maximize "engagement" to gather eyeballs to feed them advertising. It's profoundly messed up.
- paulddraper 3y agoThe cost of that computer cluster must also dwarf imagination. I don't begrudge crypto miners either.
- titzer 3y agoI wasn't aware of a right to recoup the costs of any bad idea, which seems to be what you're implying here. Because computers, therefore profit? Huh?
- paulddraper 3y agoThe earlier comment was "vast work", so the size of effort is somehow relevant to the discussion.
- titzer 3y agoIt isn't. If a serial killer spent a week digging mass graves by hand, they don't get years taken off their sentence. You don't get points just for working hard or spending money, particularly when it cheapens or just appropriates other people's work.
- newswasboring 3y ago> which then promptly uses it to maximize "engagement" to gather eyeballs to feed them advertising. This is the real problem, right? People don't dislike generative AI, they dislike the attention economy. Yet I see more disgust towards AI than the company policies which suck. I don't understand why.
- titzer 3y agoOh, haha, yeah. I guess I'm the opposite--I actually like AI more than the attention economy! At least one of them is not actively trying to drain my brainpower and skill set and get my to buy stuff and do stuff I wouldn't otherwise buy or do.
- saulpw 3y agoyet
- xetsilon 3y agoI think it is more that art, film and music have largely been replaced with complaining online about various subjects as the major form of entertainment in America.