AI is the most powerful technology ever available for humanity and I wish the good people embrace it too. Not only the bad.
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@gael This is an extremely concerning post. I left the Apple ecosystem because of their embrace of AI and would be sad to leave /e/OS for the same reason.
@gael Please no AI in /e/OS, if we're leaving big tech neo-fascists it's for very good reasons
@cyshini hmm it seems that you are mixing science/tech and politics here. Sorry but AI is supported by science and soon models will be a commodity. The things we have to care about tbough are about preventing users data collection by AI providers (privacy), bc today it is not good, and preventing cultural and political biases in models.
Interestingly we have started to test AI infrastructures on private European providers and open weights inference. If the quality is enough and the costs not too high we are progressively move all our AI needs to these new infrastructure. Super excited by all this!
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Define 'powerful'.
From where I stand, it looks like at best LLM-based technology increases speed and reduces labour costs in a few business sectors at the cost of burning the planet and increasing every measure of inequality across the globe.
I would expect an ethically driven company like @murena would have very few 'AI needs'.
I hope you aren't following Andy Yen into #AIPsychosis and ruining a trusted platform.
@tomstoneham Had not heard of Murena.
"Degoogled technology"
Odd to read; the only reason I'm Degoogling is to get away from the LLMs.
@tomstoneham @murena I don't know how to answer this... we are clearly not living in the same world 😬
@gael @tomstoneham @murena very common for capitalists to be tone deaf and live in an alternate reality, in the face of the harm they've created for the common person. If you consider cocaine a productivity metric because it lets you write code faster, then go ahead and embrace your snake oil.
Nobody else around you sees anything but dead labour being used to insult the creativity and ingenuity of millions of people, watered down to a black box which can produce everything from technical debt to misinformation. I used to respect your projects, I was a Mandriva user for a decade. But in the end, tech bros use their privilege at the top of a project to let us know how "unenlightened" we are for not choosing the thing that is proactively being advertised as a way to destroy our livelihoods, our environment, our passions, for the sake of "being more productive." Sorry, not sorry, we'll gladly drawn the line in the sand here.
@gael @murena I live on planet earth. The one where 24% of humans do not use the internet and 750 million don't have electricity.
And in the UK where the goverment is allowing 6GW of new data centres (against citizen wishes) by 2030 to support AI ambitions even though peak national energy consumption in winter is 45GW. I.e. adding 13%. From where?
It is also November and we still have water shortages in some parts of this famously rainy country.
That is my world. That is why I #ResistAI
@gael You mean so that a version of it comes into existence that isn't based on theft, ecological destruction and amoral bias? Until that happens, being good people and embracing it are mutually exclusive.
@gael If the good people embraced it, they would no longer be good people.
@gael It's so powerful, I never dare to use it! 😄