I agree with you almost 100% (except the copyright stuff), but,
The biggest source of resistance is people fearing for their jobs. That said, a lot of them have never actually tried AI, so they don't know the limitations and why I doubt serious businesses will replace any serious creative work for years to come
...the business owners are just as ignorant. They are trying to replace people with AI, which will disrupt our lives while the CEOs refuse to admit their error and force us all to deal with it anyway. It's a lot like outsourcing. It's not as cheap and effective as businesses hoped, customers largely hate it, and we're still doing it anyway.
AI will be disruptive, but over the long term it will settle down to a small disruption. But the journey to get there might suck a bit.
What is your degree to you? A means by which to qualify for a job? Or the lens through which you perceive and shape the world around you for the better?
Because AI might some far-flung day make the former obsolete, but I don't think ever the latter.
You made a lot of points here. Many I agree with, some I don't, but I specifically want to address this because it seems to be such a common misconception.
It does and it doesn't discard the original. It isn't impossible to recreate the original (since all the data it gobbled up gets stored somewhere in some shape or form and can be truthfully recreated, at least judging by a few comments bellow and news reports). So AI can and does recreate (duplicate or distribute, perhaps) copyrighted works.
AI stores original works like a dictionary does. All the words are there, but the order and meaning is completely gone. An original work is possible to recreate by randomly selecting words from the dictionary, but it's unlikely.
The thing that makes AI useful is that it understands the patterns words are typically used in. It orders words in the right way far more often than random chance. It knows "It was the best of" has a lot of likely options for the next word, but if it selects "times" as the next word, it's far more likely to continue with, "it was the worst of times." Because that sequence of words is so ubiquitous due to references to the classic story. But over the course of following these word patterns, it will quickly glom onto a different pattern and create a wholly new work from the original "prompt."
There are only two cases in which an original work should be duplicated: either the training data is far too small and the model is overtrained on that particular work, or the work is the most derivative text imaginable lacking any flair or originality.
Adding more training data makes it less likely to recreate any original works.
I am aware of examples where it was claimed an LLM reproduced entirely code functions including original comments. That is either a case of overtraining, or far too many people were already copying that code verbatim into their own, thus making that work very over represented in the training data (same thing, but it was infringing developers who poisoned the data, not researchers using bad training data).
Bottom line: when created with enough data, no original works are stored in any way that allows faithful reproduction other than by chance so random that it's similar to rolling dice over a dictionary.
None of this means AI can do no wrong, I just don't find the copyright claim compelling.
Also staff are poorly paid and have to endure abusive situations. I dated someone who worked in a care home and she was constantly subjected to sexual and other assaults. But at the same time it's already prohibitively expensive to have to live in one.
I don't know what the solution is but I would prefer euthanasia to ever living in one (for myself — I'm not advocating killing anyone just because they are old)
I was on vyvanse for years. And I slept about probably 4 hours a night on average. I had to go to adderall. It doesn't work as well, but it does work, and usually I can sleep.
Not that I'm the dev or anything, but I can't even find any gestures that work with the sidebar open other than to swipe back to the post list. I don't know if what device you're on has anything to it with it, but I thought PWAs worked the same regardless of device.
I don't think I've ever had a comment deleted there, but I blocked the instance anyway. Life is too short to engage with people whose values are entirely antithetical to my own. At least not on their home turf.
I don't think it's a failure to communicate. I think it's a case of you injecting your agenda where it doesn't apply because you want a soapbox to stand on. That is off-putting and alienating. Chime in with your spiel when it's appropriate to the context. Police protecting me has nothing to do with presidential succession and it's weird to bring it up in that context.
In another context I might well agree with you, but right now it feels like an attempt to redirect to make this about your agenda. You don't need me for that.
That's a poor paraphrasing of what I said. I'm not going to the capital with a gun. All I need is a safe transfer of power to the duly elected president.
All of this. I just blocked the sub. It's not in my interest to raise my blood pressure over what a bunch of chuckle fucks think of my choices. It's fucking weird the pejoratives they invent. Carnist? That's cool, like an artist. Whatever. They can live in their world and I'll stay out of it. They aren't affecting me.
The alarms have kinda been sounding since Trump declared his candidacy. I can only hope the FBI et al. are doing their jobs and preparing to counter insurrection, and that the National Guard are on alert.
So I'm thinking back to the times I've used it. I want to say I assume they have a way to track where this is being used based on referrer, but I don't remember clearly enough. I don't think a given token has to be tied to any URL. You just get a token and validate it with a service.
But people who use it on a daily basis could probably answer more definitively. I've just used it a couple of times and didn't bother retaining it because it's easy to figure out when you need it.
I worked for Burger King in the 80's and you'd never be able to prove that, either. I worked much longer for Sears in the 80's and I wouldn't be able to prove that, either. This is completely pointless.
I don't even know I'd be able to prove I served in the Army Reserve for six years if it weren't for my DD214.
How are they dying? The only issues I tend to run into are the belt wearing or people sucking up shit that gets them clogged. Every time one of our vacuums stops working, my wife is about to order a new one and I disassemble the broken one and find it's full of tape and bread ties and fabric scraps and, naturally, dog hair. I have to do this all the freaking time because neither my wife nor kids gives any fucks what they suck up.
I haven't had one actually break in years and we buy cheaper vacuums, so I would look into a full disassembly and cleaning out the guts and cutting hair off the roller before necessarily seeking a replacement. If you've already done that, then fair enough, but I've brought back dead vacuums at least a dozen times.
I agree with you almost 100% (except the copyright stuff), but,
...the business owners are just as ignorant. They are trying to replace people with AI, which will disrupt our lives while the CEOs refuse to admit their error and force us all to deal with it anyway. It's a lot like outsourcing. It's not as cheap and effective as businesses hoped, customers largely hate it, and we're still doing it anyway.
AI will be disruptive, but over the long term it will settle down to a small disruption. But the journey to get there might suck a bit.