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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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    So normal decent human beings

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      We let environmentalism become an individual issue, and that was a mistake. Can we not do this for AI? It's a society-wide problem, not something you can solve by measuring your own personal AI footprint.

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        Thats 99% lemmy users

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        • icastfist@programming.devI [email protected]

          No, I didn’t make it up. Although I rather wish I did, because it’s quite catchy, isn’t it?

          No, it isn't, it's fucking stupid. The author was kind enough to link the source of that shitty idea, and the AI/vegan parallels are, per said article: ethical, environmental and wellness concerns.

          Gee wiz, I sure never saw people with those 3 concerns in regards to anything other than veganism!!!

          /s

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          ITT: people really upset at being called 'vegan' for some reason.

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          • rickyrigatoni@retrolemmy.comR [email protected]

            You can at least turn off its built-in summaries. But some filtering to detect AI generated articles would be nice.

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            You can ask it to turn off the summaries. It still shows them but you can ask.

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              Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!

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              Ah, I was unaware of that shortcut, thanks for the heads up, and you’re welcome! 🦆

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                What aspects of crypto have been integrated into everything?

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                techbros graced everyone else with disruptive, innovative methods of money laundering

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                  AI vegan is not a thing and shall never be.

                  The correct term is Technophile. Anyone obsessed with tech would never hand it off to a third party to do when they can go through the joy of learning themselves.

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                    AI vegan is not a thing and shall never be.

                    The correct term is Technophile. Anyone obsessed with tech would never hand it off to a third party to do when they can go through the joy of learning themselves.

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                    I'm technophobic. Fucking clankers

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                      Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!

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                      ddg is great 🙂

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                        You're using a lot of very loosely defined terms with a lot of certainty. Machine learning is AI, we just usually apply it to the more simple versions of it. Where do you personally draw the line? I fully understand the plethora of risks, downsides, and injustices that can potentially be involved in the matter, but I legitimately don't understand the extremist level hatred that some people express to anything that could hold the title of AI. To me, it parallels with someone saying that they hate ionizing radiation. Frequently, it's also bad, and your entirely reasonable to try and avoid it on a daily basis, but it also has many uses that are beneficial and life-saving.

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                        Don't try to argue with the lemmy anti-AI crowd, it's not worth it.

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                          AI isn't the meat, jack. It's slop.

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                            Its neither for me, i just dont like getting wrong information and AI is giving tons of it.

                            Also its not intelligent it just fucking sounds so

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                              Hear me out: what i, this is a plot to boost vegan numbers. Given latest stats huge portion of population does not use or see any use in AI - i.e. can be claimed AI vegans so in aggregation reports those could be viewed as a subset of Vegans... resulting in undeniable truth that 90%+ of population are vegan now

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                              • inkstainthebat@pawb.socialI [email protected]

                                You've probably heard this before but do consider alternatives like Startpage and Qwant. It's not flawless but I've found it's definitely better.

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                                I'm gonna go a step further and recommend searx 🙂

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                                • C [email protected]

                                  I love your profile image. I should reread Rice Boy.

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                                  High five, fuck yes. Cool person detected. I think you're the first one to spot it, too.

                                  I wish I had that series in print. Might be time to look into that

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                                    It's like how they put the word gate after something to say that it is a scandal involving the former word.

                                    Somesort of political scandal involving road maintenance? Oh yes well that's roadgate then. Even though the Watergate scandal was in fact it scandal in the watergate hotel, rather than a scandal about water.

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                                    Someday we'll have Gate gate, or maybe even another scandal at the Watergate complex, so Watergate gate.

                                    I can't wait!

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                                      you aren't artificial tho lol

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                                      Maybe they were artificially inseminated?

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                                        It's fair to say that the environmental and ethical concerns are significant and I wouldn't look down in anyone refusing to use AI for those reasons. I don't look down on vegetarians or vegans either - I don't have to agree with someone's moral stance or choices to respect them.

                                        But you're right, LLMs are full of crap.

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                                        LLMs definitely are full of crap. But that isn't the point of them (even if some corporations make it seem like it is)

                                        They are supposed to be used for text generation. And you are supposed to read through everything afterwards to correct any hallucinations.

                                        It can't work on its own, and make mistakes about 30% of the time.

                                        But there are use cases where that isn't a problem. Use them as inspiration for creative writing prompts for example. They are crazy good at that.

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                                          I don't use it because I have no trust in it.

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                                          Don't use it for things you need trust in then.

                                          Inspiration for creative writing prompts for example. Things that make you double check every word that has been generated or where it doesn't matter they hallucinate.

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