• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      It’s more of a “Don’t confuse science with business” kind of argument.

      Looking at neural network-based machine learning as being made up of only commercial LLM services and then condemning an entire field of research is short-sighed at best. The people profiting off of LLMs, stealing data, building data centers and buying up the world’s supply of computer hardware are not the scientists and researchers, it’s the rich capitalists who’re trying to buy monopoly powers using their excessive piles of wealth.

      There’s more to machine learning than ChatGPT, but you couldn’t tell that by reading the social media hot takes.

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        1 hour ago

        Then go the hell on do your AI science. If it works then it works. Go build an AI that’s more than a speculation bubble and can actually help people instead of throwing us into nightmare hell world.

        Who is stopping you?

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          Probably because the scientists FauxLiving’s taking about are paid by the capitalists to make the problem-causing machines. The only way for them to continue working is to not address their employers.

          And for the scientists trying to make the pure wholesome science AI, every advance (like cancer cell spotting) is overshadowed by a bigger issue like de-skilling the people who have to do the training, or worse (like an LLM rejecting people’s insurance and a chance to even see that deskilled doctor)