AI is plastic: cheap and shiny, worse and harder to maintain. Companies love it, it’s everywhere, and now it’s in our brains.

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Mr_Fish@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 110d (1 reply)

The difference is that plastic does genuinely have good uses

elvith@feddit.org · 16 pts · 110d

AI does have excellent usecases. They just diminish to almost zero if you only look at LLMs

SolidShake@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 110d

I haven't used AI yet. At least new ai and on purpose.

Mikina@programming.dev · 20 pts · 110d

It's not cheap, though. They are burning billions and as far as I know, not a single company has managed to turn in profit yet, and are still in the Uber phase.

It will get a lot worse.

Mac@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 110d (1 reply)

worse

lmao
Plastics are amazing and are extremely useful. Unfortunately they're bad for the environment.

crimsonpoodle@pawb.social · 4 pts · 110d

Yeah true, but had to be concise. For certain applications plastics are 100% the way to go, so not perfect analogy. But for plenty of other applications they are worse than wood, metal, and glass

herculeskan@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 110d (1 reply)

It's the futuristic distopia that we live nowadays

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 110d

I blame VC. Whatever the technology, VC ensures it'll be used dystopicaly

fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 110d

There has always been a tendency to switch to methods of doing things that are easier and worse. That does not make it okay, but it is a consistent pattern.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 2 pts · 110d

I like it. Screw the brain, it'll be worse. Eventually there will AI Coffee Machines and I will hitch hike to silicon valley find the person that made it and punch them

early_riser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 108d
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