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    My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds

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        What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.

        They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.

        And I get that, because I feel it too.

        But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.

        • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible

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            There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.

            Still not an “easy” experience though.

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              I mean to be clear I don’t do it. The only computer I run xp on is an old tektronik mainframe that only has lan access and needs proprietary software to work that only runs on xp

              I don’t really count that though since i literally only use it for the one app that allows the logic analyzer and oscilloscope cards to work

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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          25 天前

          Please use different formatting for emphasis and non-speech. I recommend escaping the asterisks with backslashes for the latter.

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              The way you wrote it, there is no formatting distinction between emphasis (nonbinary) and stage directions (laugh track). I suggest you use something else for one of these, preferably the latter:

              u might even say its a nonbinary choice *laugh track*

              u might even say its a nonbinary choice [laugh track]

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                Except for… context? I’m constantly annoyed by grammar/spelling online and even I say you’re going too far.

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        This is Lemmy, which is a byproduct of Reddit, and both of them have generally devolved into worlds of black and white only, although here tends to at least still have some nuance.

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        Yeah, but some things are. It’s like, things are either a binary choice or they’re not. Whoa 🤯

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      Unpopular opinion, but it’s also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it’s often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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        AI is for lying to investors that your company is going to turn a profit in a few years. FOSS projects don’t need that.

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          Try to separate the AI hype from AI.

          AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.

          Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.

          It’s the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it’s no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what “intelligence” means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.

          Even LLMs have value, just not how they’re being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.

          I’d love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn’t want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.

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              LLMs are AI as much as the enemies in a game are AI. It’s not General AI though, which companies really seem to want people to believe it is.

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                It was kind of OK to refer to enemies as AI back then because not a single human (or investor) truly believed that a bot in CS can write text, paint an image, or replace you at your job. Now misusing the term leads to an unnecessary dangerous confusion.

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                  Robotic Arms with AI have been taking over jobs well before LLMs were a thing.

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          25 天前

          Tell them you can have sex with it

          CLANK CLANK CLANK

          Crunch

          YYYYEEEEEOOOOOCCCHHHH

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          It’s a bit less about that, and a bit more about the fact that real robots cost a lot, require incredible investment upfront, and the results are very physical, it’s very hard to dupe idiots into believing you achieved something great when you wasted all the money.
          Look how easily everyone swallowed the llm bullshit, and how hard it is for Elongated Muskrat to convince everyone that his people in cosplay suits are totally robots you guys.

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        in a society that values the worker an invention that relieves work would be lauded.
        capitalist society doesn’t value the worker, it values the product.
        as fas as capitalism is concerned people are just inefficient machines with annoying things like “rights” and “feelings”

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      It’s one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.

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        Generative AI in different forms is more than just a poor quality tool. Image generators are being used to create fair pornography of real people. People are replacing actual mental health techniques with ChatGPT reaffirming every single one of their internal biases and making their problems worse. Employers are using metric shit tons of natural resources to generate “no you can’t take the day off” emails, and people are generating AI summaries of AI generated presentations and saying they’ve learned something.

        And if the human impact doesn’t appeal to you, all the financial capital being poured into NVidia and OpenAI and all of this other rubbish could be solving real problems.

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          Can you name a single technology or human endeavour that doesn’t have negative side effects or potential for abuse?

          The rise of anti-AI sentiment isn’t based on objective measurements of societal harms, it’s a meme because it’s new and popular and, like all memes, some people feed on the outrage-based reinforcement generated by social media interactions.

          I’m not saying that there are no problems with AI. I’m saying that people are treating it as if it were a massive problem because their perception is warped by social media.

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            I believe there are significant downsides to AI because of my understanding, not because the internet has told me to. The flip side of this conversation is people who do not understand, or choose to downplay, the downsides and who inflate the benefits through ignorance or vested interest. Of course all change has to be balanced against both good and bad consequences but to me it reads as though you are discounting valid criticism of AI as groupthink, when just as much happens in the opposite direction.

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              You sure your understanding isn’t even a little bit based on things the internet told you?

              Like, did you get all your knowledge about AI from offline?

              Because I highly doubt it. Especially since you are on Lemmy on a post about AI.

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                Sure, discourse I’ve read on social media has encouraged me to go and do further reading and educate myself. You got me?

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      Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.

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        Yeah it’s become impossible to have philosophical discussions, although this truly does seem limited to the virtual world (i.e. via text, online, etc.). If I were to go have some drinks with a friend and they busted out some LLM to take part in our discussion I would chastise them endlessly for it.

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        Honestly its not much different from a google search and reading some nonsense written by someone who has no authority in the subject. As long as it reinforces their belief itll be true in their eyes

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      I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.

      Instead of just “All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies” or “All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution”.

      LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.

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        When someone can produce an LLM that doesn’t use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.

        Obviously, this doesn’t include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.

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          That also misses the point. If we want to pull the world out of poverty and into prosperity we’re going to need an astonishing amount of power. The only key is to make power that is sustainable so that things requiring a lot of power aren’t given a second thought. The thing you’re mad at are massive corporations putting the cart waaaaaay before the horse. And yes, please be mad at them for that.

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          Local LLMs are a thing, so why don’t you start with your nuance, hmm?

          Is it because LLMs are worse than the devil and are killing babies?

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            That local LLM?

            Still uses that power. Still used the power for training. Still exploited workers. Swing and a miss.

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        Fingers crossed it’ll end up like crypto. Here to stay in the world of finance, no longer in every product that never needed it.

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    Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.

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    Wait who doesn’t already use Notepad++? It’s even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already

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      Real talk. I’m beyond an amateur, mainly doing super simple scripts for low power sbc’s to output an I or 0, and even during my ~1hour learning process every video uses np++.

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      Son, I was using Emacs before Notepad++ even existed.

      Tap for spoiler

      Oh shit, I looked it up and it’s literally true. Notepad++ was first released in 2003 and I’m pretty sure I used Emacs for the first time in 2002.

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    TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.

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    You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!

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    People are allowed to want what they’re comfortable with to not be riddled with llms

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    Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse’s horseshit in my living room