Alt text: A rocket engine attached to a train. The rocket is labeled “AI” and the train labeled “Enshittification train”.

  • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    AI’s most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.

    • PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years

      Always the plan, funnily enough. They didn’t necessarily know what they’d need the data for, just knew it was valuable and should be sucked up and saved until the opportunity presented itself.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Check out the latest episode of the excellent podcast “Search Engine”… Very much relevant and very much terrifying.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Can I just make a special note of appreciation that this image is not itself AI generated. *golf clap

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOP
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      I’ve never used an AI image generator, so why start now? lol. Though I did use Google image search to find “train with rocket on it” which probably does use ML under the hood to classify images. So it’s not completely devoid of irony lol.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    A handful of already obscenely wealthy people will get vastly more wealthy and we’ll all be stuck with the shit “products” they’ve ruined with AI… Totally not a broken system we have.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      for/and levels of health science never imaginable.

      let’s not forget tnt was both a great and awful invention. I know this is different but there is no putting the genie back in the bottle.

      ai will be the new normal for as long as there is normal. all y’all saying its stupid or a fad are like the people who said the same at the beginning of the net.

      speaking of which, without the net we couldn’t have ai. or at least LLMs.