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I'm just sick of all this because we gave to "AI" too much meaning.
I don't like Generative AI tools like LLMs, image generators, voice, video etc because i see no interests in that, I think they give bad habits, and they are not understood well by their users.
Yesterday again i had to correct my mother because she told me some fun fact she had learnt by chatGPT, (that was wrong), and she refused to listen to me because "ChatGPT do plenty of researches on the net so it should know better than you".
About the thing that "it will replace artists and destroy art industry", I don't believe in that, (even if i made the choice to never use it), because it will forever be a tool. It's practical if you want a cartoony monkey image for your article (you meanie stupid journalist) but you can't say "make me a piece of art" and then put it on a museum.
Making art myself, i hate Gen AI slop from the deep of my heart but i'm obligated to admit that. (Let's not forget how it trains on copirighted media, use shitton of energy, and give no credits)
AI in others fields, like medecine, automatic subtitles, engineering, is fine for me. It won't give bad habits, it is well understood by its users, and it is truly benefical, as in being more efficient to save lifes than humans, or simply being helpful to disabled people.
TL,DR AI in general is a tool. Gen AI is bad as a powerful tool for everyone's use like it is bad to give to everyone an helicopter (even if it improves mobility). AI is nonetheless a very nice tool that can save lifes and help disabled peoples IF used and understood correctly and fairly.
I think the generative AI tech bros have deliberately contributed to a lot of confusion by calling all machine learning algorithms "AI".
I mean, you have some software which both works and is socially beneficial, like translation and speech recognition software.
You have some software that works, and is incredibly dangerous because it works, like facial recognition and all the horrible ways authoritarian governments can exploit it.
And then you have some software that "works" to produce socially detrimental bullshit, like generative AI.
All three of these categories use machine learning algorithms, trained on data sets to recognize and produce patterns. But they aren't the same in any other meaningful sense. Calling them all "AI" does nothing but confuse the issue.
I spent an hour talking photographs on the drive home the other night (the wife was driving and a storm have us great clouds). I was mostly playing with angles and landscape but it was fun. The kind of stuff it would take entire weeks to do thirty years ago, and I was done in an hour. I got a mediocre shot at best, but it was real dammit.