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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Every word is true.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/17/i-do-love-a-good-spleen/
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- Why these fucking bozos piss me the fuck off 1 was drafting stuff for this book and it kept turning into short historics where I kept adding “[TK add detail]” and it felt like giving myself homework. That makes for text that bores the reader ‘cos it bores the author. So no. I'm writing from the spleen here. It's the only way this can work and have power. What I hate about AT hype is that it’s by the same shitty bozos who fuck up everything clse. They have no approach to the world other than fucking stuff up with money and power via technology. As a technologist myself (a Unix/Linux system administrator for a few decades), I'm even more pissed off because the technologies are actually interesting, They do things! You could do good things with them! Even the gencrative stuff, you could play with it and make interesting things! But no — these bozos being who they are, all they can think of is how to turn it to abuses. Machine learning is for systemic bias. Generative Al is for reducing artists’ labour conditions. And the power consumption, my God! These bozos were bad enough when they were pushing crypto, and in Al they've even managed to replace the ghastly power waste! Al is not about technology — it's about power over you. (remote)
![Why these fucking bozos piss me the fuck off 1 was drafting stuff for this book and it kept turning into short historics where I kept adding “[TK add detail]” and it felt like giving myself homework. That makes for text that bores the reader ‘cos it bores the author. So no. I'm writing from the spleen here. It's the only way this can work and have power. What I hate about AT hype is that it’s by the same shitty bozos who fuck up everything clse. They have no approach to the world other than fucking stuff up with money and power via technology. As a technologist myself (a Unix/Linux system administrator for a few decades), I'm even more pissed off because the technologies are actually interesting, They do things! You could do good things with them! Even the gencrative stuff, you could play with it and make interesting things! But no — these bozos being who they are, all they can think of is how to turn it to abuses. Machine learning is for systemic bias. Generative Al is for reducing artists’ labour conditions. And the power consumption, my God! These bozos were bad enough when they were pushing crypto, and in Al they've even managed to replace the ghastly power waste! Al is not about technology — it's about power over you.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/668/626/718/797/410/original/06c022b182967f40.png){kind=link}
