Thanks, I hope that’s not the case, but if it is they can keep it, I’m not going to support those kinds of practices

Beep boop, keywords detected. Yes indeed

Damn you caught me

Try explaining that last one to someone over the phone

Lemmy moment

A lot of software devs also use it to find the right syntax for something, or to add more unit tests etc.

LLMs are very useful, thats just a really you have we accept, I wish it was never invented, but it’s here and it’s here to stay.

I myself find it very useful, I tried to deny ot at first but you have to accept reality

Do you ever use Wikipedia to look up something that is in your library?

By your logic a lot of Wikipedia is useless, you can just go to a library and look up the information in books.

LLm’s provide an actual useful service, else people wouldn’t be paying to use them.

Pretending it isn’t is rediculous.

When it comes to climate change we should be focusing our energy where it matters.

Most countries still burn coal, we should be angry about that, AI is insignificant compared to that.

AI is however a massive privacy and copyright issue, there we can focus on regulation

I might get crucified for saying this on Lemmy

But I don’t see the energy issue as a real issue. I feel that is just the AI = Bad mentality looking for reasons to hate AI

If you compare it to other things, it’s a drop in the bucket

• 1 kg Beef = 60kg CO2 - source
• 1000km Return flight = 314kg CO2 - source
• 1 Bitcoin transaction = 645kg of CO2 - source
• 1000 AI prompts = 3kg of CO2 - source including training

Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of reasons to hate AI

Before I probably get attacked for these valid points, I just want to say I’m not Pro-AI (look at my history) There are plenty of valid reasons to be Anti-AI like Privacy, Copyright and many more, but the argument for the environment is a very weak one when you compare it to other things we aren’t as upset about like flying.

Any technology can be good or bad depending on how it’s used. The way corporations are shoving AI in anywhere they can, and stealing peoples content to train them etc. is bad. So is the privacy concerns.

But LLMs aren’t necessarily bad, and can be good depending on how they are built and used.

I was the one who posted the ‘AI = BAD’ meme. And while I do think Lemmy is overly Anti-AI, and have some very poor arguments that they should stop using because it discredits us.

There are also many valid arguments to be Anti-AI like Privacy etc.

What drove me to the ‘companies be like’ meme was this
WTF is AI doing in my beer?

Is this a joke? 😅

I thought Lemmy is anti Clanker

Was just thinking the same

I wonder what is up with http://localghost.com/ it looks like some treasure hunt

It’s honestly rediculous, it weakens actual valid concerns with AI.

I know kids who’s parents kept them away from computers growing up, where as I was allowed to play with computers and broke several by the age of 10.

Now I’m good with computers and have made a good career out of it, those kids who weren’t allowed around computers aren’t very computer literate, their parents definitely did them a big disservice.

Teach your kids a healthy ballance with new technology, but don’t withhold it especially when their peers are all using it.

DeepL has the same issues that a LLM has when it comes to translating.

You’re still sending all your data to some server, it might be a bit more efficient than a LLM, not sure by how much. but it’s essentially the same thing.

DeepL is essentially just a LLM specifically tuned for translations

Do you stream HD video, or Game or eat meat? Because those footprints are more than if you’d use AI a lot.

Not saying you should use AI, just pointing out a hypocrisy I see on here a lot

That’s simply not true, What translation tool is better at translating English to Afrikaans?

I’m just just picking a difficult language, I am Afrikaans look at my post history.