FWIW, I think they pick the most influential person or persons, not the person I think is the best from the year. Hitler was person of the year and so was Trump.
Despite the name, the title is not just granted to individuals. Pairs of people such as married couples and political opponents, classes of people, and inanimate objects have all been selected for the special year-end issue.
Useful information. That said, it's probably a little more dangerous in this case because too many people are personifying LLM behavior. I don't think any people assume The Spirit of Ukraine is a sentient being, for instance.
But I concede that the people pushing AI certainly can be, especially since their influence has ruined so many lives already and is poised to ruin many more, both directly and indirectly.
Yeah, that's the excuse they use when later it turns out that their picks weren't that good, but overall theme is that they try to show the positive people/events.
AI is being prepared as a revolution that can have positive benefits, they are also trying to mislead people that it can think, though when you actually use it for things like software engineering you quickly learn that it is now scam than anything.
The tool is only good in negative aspects such as disinformation and surveillance.
AI is definitelly the "Thing of the Year" in terms of its impact.
Doesn't mean it's a good thing though, just high impact (and impact which is going to be even higher when the bubble collapses dragging the rest of the American Economy with it).
I stopped considering it legitimate when they claimed that I was person of the year in 2006. I didn't even do anything besides post on myspace, leave youtube comments, drank vodka, and slept around.
What? It was my early 20s.....if you don't wake up five different times, in five different womens beds, where you have no clue who they are, where you are, or where your kidneys are....then you're not doing your early 20s right!
Now.....early 40s? I drink a lot of water. Did you know you should be drinking more water? Because you should be drinking more water.
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lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 244d
FWIW, I think they pick the most influential person or persons, not the person I think is the best from the year. Hitler was person of the year and so was Trump.
davidgro@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 244d
Exactly this. "AI" and the people behind it were highly newsworthy, it's not a prize and never has been.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 244d
AI isn't people.
Imagine if they said that subprime credit swaps were the person of the year in 2006.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 244d
— Wikipedia
Notable past winners include:
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 244d
It's more of a branding thing I guess. It's not like the "award" is real, it's just "this is what the ruling class likes this year"
taiyang@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
Useful information. That said, it's probably a little more dangerous in this case because too many people are personifying LLM behavior. I don't think any people assume The Spirit of Ukraine is a sentient being, for instance.
But I concede that the people pushing AI certainly can be, especially since their influence has ruined so many lives already and is poised to ruin many more, both directly and indirectly.
Peer@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 244d
As you can see in the top right corner the person of the year title applies to the architects of AI.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 243d
Capitalist media is pure garbage.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 244d
The front page literally says: "the architects of AI" are the person of the year.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 244d
In tiny font compared to everything else. It's clear AI is the person of the year.
Although "the architects of subprime mortgages" would have been a funny person of the year too.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 244d
It's the only text on the front page barring the artwork
queermunist@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 244d
The "artwork" is literally giant text that spells AI. "The architects of" is a thin font off in the corner. AI is the main event.
lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 243d
And the art shows people building the AI
ch00f@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 244d
I mean I was the Time person of the year in 2006, and I was still in high school.
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 244d
Every dog would be more qualified to be person of the year. 😂
lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
The title went to "The Architects of AI", not just to AI in general
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 244d
It literally says the architects of AI though.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 243d
Celebrating fascism along the way...
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social · 26 pts · 244d
In defense of Time magazine here they did have Hitler as person of the year once. Its just the most influential person/thing not the "best".
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 244d
they also had "you" - meaning everyone - in 2006. So anyone who was alive then is technically included.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 243d
Celebrating hitler is not a "defense". jfc.
There are plenty of people who resisted.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 243d
msage@programming.dev · 2 pts · 243d
I love that series so much.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 244d
Hell of a way to announce you don’t understand the concept of Time Person of the Year
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 244d
Yeah, that's the excuse they use when later it turns out that their picks weren't that good, but overall theme is that they try to show the positive people/events.
AI is being prepared as a revolution that can have positive benefits, they are also trying to mislead people that it can think, though when you actually use it for things like software engineering you quickly learn that it is now scam than anything.
The tool is only good in negative aspects such as disinformation and surveillance.
artyom@piefed.social · 14 pts · 244d
TIL AI is a person.
Kirk@startrek.website · 13 pts · 244d
It is "the architects of ai", which is a bunch of tech CEOs, so even worse.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 243d
Legally so are corporations.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
Yeah, Al is short for Alphonsejamin.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 14 pts · 244d
Yes. Time being irrelevant and stupid is only a recent phenomenon.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 244d
ITT: people taking a fake award both at face value and way too seriously.
Kirk@startrek.website · 4 pts · 244d
Seriously it's not even an honorific, it just describes the most newsworthy people from that year
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 243d
ITT: people absorbing disinformation and fake news with zero critical faculty.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 243d
That magazine was already irrelevant since a decade ago, I've never taken their person of the year thing serious
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 244d
Its not a good person contest. It's people who have been prominent.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 244d
AI is not a person
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 244d
No, but if you can read, it clearly states the architects of AI, who are people.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
They're making that look like fine print...
lovelyladystarr@lemmynsfw.com · 0 pts · 243d
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 243d
Because they're promoting bullshit.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 244d
Copying my earlier comment: The front page literally says: "the architects of AI" are the person of the year.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 243d
AI is definitelly the "Thing of the Year" in terms of its impact.
Doesn't mean it's a good thing though, just high impact (and impact which is going to be even higher when the bubble collapses dragging the rest of the American Economy with it).
expatriado@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
wonder if mortgage lenders were person of the year in 2007
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 243d
I think it was just mortgages... but it might've said "brokers" really tiny in fine print.
Zier@fedia.io · 6 pts · 244d
It's Time ended long ago.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
Worst choice since 2006.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 244d
But... I'm awesome 🥺
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
Cover looks like slop.
flandish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
it. never. was.
spongebue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
Everyone here is complaining that AI isn't a person and bringing up 2006... Nobody seems to remember 1982's person of the year.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Was 2 in 1982 so how about you enlighten me?
spongebue@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 243d
I wasn't even born yet but I still know how to use the Internet to find out it was the computer
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 244d
Is this real? This can't be real. Is it?...
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
OP tell us who you would put up there instead and why
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
I stopped considering it legitimate when they claimed that I was person of the year in 2006. I didn't even do anything besides post on myspace, leave youtube comments, drank vodka, and slept around.
What? It was my early 20s.....if you don't wake up five different times, in five different womens beds, where you have no clue who they are, where you are, or where your kidneys are....then you're not doing your early 20s right!
Now.....early 40s? I drink a lot of water. Did you know you should be drinking more water? Because you should be drinking more water.