Technology

I've just had a thought:

There's a little country where the way its leadership still hasn't been all voted out and put behind bars for life is that it constantly invents new subjects for discussion. Some outrageous, some showing them in good light, but the point is that everyone forgets the real bad things they've done (they are basically a collaborationist puppet government of a neighboring fascist country).

I wonder if it's today's world as a whole showing itself in that little country.

I've recently read an article seen on Lemmy, suggesting that the "AI" hype is the same. https://theluddite.org/#!post/ai-hype - found it. The conclusion is very important.

They are wasting enormous amounts of energy to make those "AI"s, collect training data and so on, to make oligopolized platforms and industries shittier and shittier.

But we are wasting our energy, which is much more limited, to track myriads of false targets. We are like an air defense system being saturated.

No one has ever won a war by sitting in defense. We must search for critical joints to attack.

Also no, voting for one of two candidates presented to you in some election is not that, neither is arguing for one of two sides in a discourse presented to you. There are better and worse choices there, but that's not what attack means.

Can we stop with this bullshit? Nobody will buy into it. WE DON’T WANT IT.

Obligatory fuck AI and the illeterate bros pushing it.

What kind of videos, though? A lot of such material is very far from being proper educational material that we show other people to really teach them much, let alone educate them well enough to be anywhere trustworthy. This is a very processed material, with years of preparation once you consider the prior education of the individuals involved in the creative process - think of the past experiences silently influencing them, their initial knowledge on the subject obtained from somewhat basic facts from school or otherwise, their misconceptions, iterations that nobody knows about, and many other things that we don't usually directly associate with the act of working on something like a video, but that eventually do dictate a lot of the decisions and opinions put into it.

It's one thing that the AI has no intelligence in it whatsoever, but the fact that it's being pumped with information and "knowledge" in basically the reverse order doesn't help it become any better.

On the other hand, the entire thing is not about making something that works well, but something that sells well. And then there's people putting too much faith into the thing and trusting it with way too much stuff than they should (which is also the case with a lot of other tech, though, admittedly).

Some things of today are so damn unexciting.