• Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Electric motors and encyclopedias are irreplaceable in weapons. All electronics are used in weapons.

    Farming, fishing, and electricity inherently degrade our planet far more than AI. They should all be used sustainably, wisely, and with an eye to ecosystem health and future generations. You’ll get absolutely no argument from me there. Banning any of them or limiting their access to only the governments and corporations who are doing almost all the damage, is insanity.

    When it comes to IP theft, that is a huge, non-ai problem. Again, corporations are responsible for almost all of the damage and we reap none of the benefits, even before AI was ever introduced. The problem is with how we allow corporations to copyright and restrict things for generations.

    The solution is that AI, the technology that required all of humanity to contribute knowledge for it to exist, should be free for all to use. Why would IP theft be a reason to limit AI ownership to only corporations and governments? That’s completely backwards.

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      Farming, fishing, and electricity inherently degrade our planet far more than AI.

      They’re also necessary for existence (at least the first two, but when it comes to medical applications, really electricity too).

      AI slop? Nope.

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        2 months ago

        re: your 1st point: deliberately disingenuous due to scale and time. re: your 2nd point: No

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          2 months ago

          I promise we won’t need shitty images of babies driving a boat with shrimp Jesus, no matter how much time passes.

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        Nope, we all lived just fine without farming and fishing. Then we lived just fine without industrial farming and fishing. We lived most of human existence without either, and certainly without modern medicine.

        You just like those things and you don’t like AI.

        Then you dress all AI applications down to “AI slop”. Which if you want to move the goalposts to “AI slop”, we can agree that it’s about as necessary as high fructose corn syrup and streaming entertainment. Do you fuss on those as hard as frivolous AI usage?

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          2 months ago

          lmao that’s actually so stupid I’m not even going to bother responding

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            2 months ago

            You stated that fishing and farming are necessary for our existence. That is obviously incorrect. Farming has obvious benefits over foraging, but is definitely not essential. Fishing: eating dead bodies is a choice, it is far from essential.

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              1 month ago

              lmao that’s actually so stupid I’m not even going to bother responding

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                You did respond.

                Being homeschooled in a cult has limited your anthropological and historical knowledge to an absurdly low level, to the point that I am surprised you are aware of electricity at all.