I’m guessing that I was banned for recent, scientifically accurate statements about “AI” despite a long history of posting in the comm. As someone who doesn’t believe in “AI”, I think that a great portion of “anti-AI” sentiment is misguided at best and most often feeding the grift. I think it’s really sad how people who supposed oppose “AI” constantly feed the hype through anthropomorphism, absurd claims/beliefs, etc. Perhaps more importantly, if you’re more upset by people generated images of witches than by genocide, surveillance, etc., then you’re part of the problem. TBH technology is always corrupted by capitalism and nothing special is really happening with “AI” apart from the massive grift. The comm seems like a lib space mostly for promoting phony “AI” press releases. I’m not surprised that I was banned for my thought crimes. “AI” doesn’t exist and I’m not sorry about it. But that comm is the real booster. Rife with pseudo-science and anthropomorphism. That’s why liberal resistance is not actually resistance. These people are going to be crying about witch pictures while being dragged off to prison during an “AI” raid…
10,000%. I even brought that up in the recent thread about anarchists & LLMs.
Just want to note - it does, and has for about 70 years. Its a big umbrella, and I think what you’re saying here is General AI (or AGI Artificial General Intelligence) doesn’t exist. It doesn’t. But NAI (narrow) does exist, thats what LLMs are.
It gets messier because of those marketing pieces they put put because they will refer to Gen AI (and mean generative) or they try and rebrand General as “able to do a task that a person did” which is remarkably silly and pure nonsense.
As far as the community goes, I mostly gloss over it for the reasons you mention. Its like a little bit of fabricated reality in there. And due to that, I’d say PTB.
That said, its one of those places where disagreement isn’t generally welcome, so it shouldn’t be surprising.