P03 Locke

The NYT is now compromised. Has been for several years now.

Violence doesn’t solve core problems you dangerous idiot.

Then, tell me, what’s the next step after protests that do nothing and failing to convince cult-programmed individuals to vote correctly?

You were the one suggesting that all of human art could be compressed into a file that could easily fit on a USB stick:

AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

These are your words.

The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.

Remember when Pixar and DreamWorks destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in order to erect enormous Gray boxes filled with computers that run complex operations 24/7, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water, leading to unmitigated pollution; not to mention political corruption, global surveillance, rolling back privacy protections, and economic gangsterism that hasn’t been seen in 100 years?

You act like data centers are a new concept that was invented in the 2020s. We’ve had data centers even before we had the Internet.

Rich assholes make those kind of decisions to pump trillions into AI pipe dreams, just like the rich assholes who run Hollywood.

The fact that we find ourselves in these patterns over and over shows that the ruling class has learned to fuck us in a way so that we complain but not actually try to do anything to change society. Which shows the lack of actual freedom we have in order to live by our actual human impulses.

That’s because we’re too scared to project violence to solve the core problems. The best we have is useless protests that don’t sway psychopaths, because psychopaths don’t have feelings.

Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?

It’s like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.

We didn’t need AI for the Hollywood slop. It’s already in the streaming services. Miles and miles of terrible movies with glowing 8.5 scores (according to their own rating systems).

Stop fucking call it “age” verification. It’s identity collection.

The internet was a bubble. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful. It just means that companies are overselling its value. There are too many companies jumping on the bandwagon, and not all of them with survive when the bubble pops.

It’s still bad and destructive, but I think far too many people are interpreting this bubble as “if I wait a few more years, this technology will disappear and I won’t have to worry about it any more”. No, it’s more like the internet where if people wait a few more years and don’t use it, they will lag behind and be replaced by people who understand the tech. Companies that don’t use it will die out.

I like Hank Green’s recent takes on AI.

The level of competition is extremely high, and no one will be willing to pay for AI services.

Companies are already paying for AI services. You think everybody has a free account? Please!

I use LLMs every day in my job. It’s a useful tool for programming, and it’s saved me a lot of time searching for information.