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If you ask the people around me it's "pro China glazer"

And honestly thats fine with me.

Firstly, generative AI has valid use cases for accessibility and quality of life features.

Hard disagree. First, to get it out of the way, disabled artists should not be expected to use LLMs to "reach" the level of able bodied and neurotypical artists. I've seen this take be brought up in other places and its always shrouded in the same ableist rhetoric. Not that you were implying that if you arent.

Second, none of these features are necessary which cant already be replaced by a human. Need to summarize an article, what if the author just writes a summary for the article as well? The speaker has an accent or speaks in a way thats hard to hear: closed captioning subtitles and more access to sign language translators. There are better methods to solve these problems that dont require the resource consumption and lack of rationality that an LLM provides.

We were already in the hellscape dystopia when the first programmer signed an NDA and computers started becoming the property of corporations rather than being collectively owned by society itself. Nothing has changed except the absurdity of it all.

unless I want to be my generation's equivalent of a boomer still using a Nokia 3310 instead of an iPhone or Android.

And this is bad how? Technology isn't inherently better because it's new or widely used. Old printers that dont brick themselves because of not using the correct toner are more useful than one that can print out a page of AI slop.

AI isnt the "smartphone revolution". The technology has existed for decades, they just found a way to market it to users and creating this shock and awe narrative of promised breakthroughs that will never come.

Dont get caught up in the hype because a dying, deindustrialized empire thinks a slop machine will defeat communism. Israel doesn't use AI to accurately predict which Palestinian father and his family to vaporize, they use AI to make this process more cruel and detached.

I guess its not useless on technicality, but it is definitely malicious. Now that Chinese tech firms want to create their own models, they've done the same web scraping frenzy that takes down websites and forces everyone to "cloudflarize" themselves or risk being taken down by an AI bot scraping every single webpage on the site, even ones that aren't meant to be accessed. These programs constantly need more and more training data to keep being relevant but none of that data is sourced in an ethical way. Everyone else has to eat the externalities that these companies offload because this technology is no way sustainable if these scummy tactics aren't used which should be a death blow to its adoption but it never is.

The energy requirements for genAI is immense. While China has made inroads in sustainable energy and optimizing their models, none of the western models even care and will willfully accelerate climate change for zero benefit to society. This isn't a "Nokia phone to apple smartphone" jump in progress, this is just a very well tuned crypto scam.

Generative AI as it's being presented now is just a paper crown technology and a ploy to drive up artificial (as in not organic) demand for compute power to make investors richer while also impoverishing and endangering working class people. While you can say capitalism is much to blame, I don't think any socialist government actually needs a text slop machine to function compared to a imperialist state with a text slop machine.

AI has always been a term in computer science that's been co-opted by techbros in both China and the US to be a status symbol.

AI is haram

edit: This isn't a hot take.

China getting into AI is annoying, they shouldn't ape White people's useless technology. Hopefully socialism reveals how useless genAI is and it gets relegated into a party trick and they don't wreck anything important. I will bury myself in dogshit if socialism collapses because of ai slop.

My favorite thing to say to AI people is "no high speed rail?" Works every time.

They see us tankies do it and are mad they didn't come up with it first.

Tempus fuck it?

Higher, higher, higher!!!

Just an online dictionary would just be better for that, no chance for hallucination which happens with both commie and porky genAI.

Xiaohongshu got a sequel?

We are so back.

This plan would work if the cartels were made of exclusively of unarmed women and children and not a well-funded military. This is just more theater from the US to look tough on organized crime and policing the border.

All this would accomplish would just be blowback on people in Mexico being displaced even quicker than they are already.

Trump can literally say that capitalism no work and USAmericans will still hate communism because they'll lose their non-existent wealth.

Bold of you to assume that a calculator was used and not a premium subscription to ChatGPT Co-Pilot Mega Plus Infinity X Pro.

Business is not based on material production and meeting the demand of society but on how good the vibes are.

The vibes are red (commie color) so something has gone horribly wrong.

Trump sets himself up as the fall guy for austerity and the controlled opposition party gets to keep his cuts without all the negative media attention.

This happens in the Republic of Samsung and Housing Debt every couple of years.

New site tagline?

"The Red Scare"

Meanwhile, officials at the US Indo-Pacific Command have expressed concern over the depletion of long-range munitions like JASSMs, which they see as essential for potential conflicts in the Pacific, including against China

Another day another China does nothing and

Humanity's soul shines through Yemen.

Even if factory automation is developed globally, you still need to build and maintain the automated factories... which requires re-industrialization.

RISC-V entails also breaking off from the US operating system hegemony. Chinese tech firms are already using RISC-V in production servers but consumer-facing personal computers with RISC-V would require building your entire OS from scratch outside of these yank companies or focus on the mobile space solely (something like HarmonyOS)

I would really like for China to invest in KDE/GNOME and start building out that support for the entire world rather than go their own way with a domestic solution.