What are your thoughts on Generative Machine Learning models? Do you like them? Why? What future do you see for this technology?

What about non-generative uses for these neural networks? Do you know of any field that could use such pattern recognition technology?

I want to get a feel for what are the general thoughts of Lemmy Users on this technology.

  • algernon@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Most GenAI was trained on material they had no right to train on (including plenty of mine). So I’m doing my small part, and serving known AI agents an infinite maze of garbage. They can fuck right off.

    Now, if we’re talking about real AI, that isn’t just a server park of disguised markov chains in a trenchcoat, neural networks that weren’t trained on stolen data, that’s a whole different story.

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    2 months ago

    It’s a glorified crawler that is incredibly inefficient. I don’t use it because I’ve been programmed to be picky about my sources and LLMs haven’t.

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Kinda cool how much auto-correct and noise filters can do… kinda uncool to use the same as leverage against humanity.

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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    It’s bullshit. It’s inauthentic. It can be useful for chewing through data, but even then the output can’t be trusted. The only people I’ve met who are absolutely thrilled by it are my bosses, who are two of the most frustrating, stupid, pig-headed, petty people I’ve ever met. I wish it would go away. I’m quitting my job next week, taking a big paycut and barely being able to pay the bills, specifically because those two people are unbearable. They also insist that I use AI as much as possible.

  • nebula42@lemmy.zip
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    I personally hate the path that AI is going. Generative ai steals art and scrapes text to create garbage on demand using too much power and computing resources that could be spent on better purposes, such as simulating protein folding for disease research (see folding at home). u/[email protected] gave some good uses of ai.

    To be honest, I think it’s a severe mistake that AI is continuing to improve, as long as you aren’t gullible and know what to look for, you can tell when something is ai generated, but there are too many people who are easily fooled by ai generated images and videos. When chatpgt released, I thought it was a nice toy, but now that I know the methods of which such large scale models are obtaining their data to train on, I can only resent it. So long as generative models continue to improve in accuracy of text and images, so will my hatred towards it in turn.

    p.s: don’t use the term “AI art” for the love of God. art captures human emotions and experiences, machines can’t understand them, they are only silicon. Only humans can create art, nothing else.

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    Generative ai is just an advanced chat bot, a toy that uses too much power to be efficient.

    My personal experience is that any output has to be double checked and edited. It would be better to just do whatever I asked it to do from the beginning. When it can fact check itself and cite sources, then it might become useful.

    An ai that can comb through vast amounts of data and give an output of specific data relevant to the question presented than a generative ai might be useful. But it can’t analyze data very well at the current moment. It hallucinates too much.

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    2 months ago

    The pushback against genAI’s mostly reactionary moral panic with (stupid|misinformation|truth stretching) talking points , such’s :

    • AI art being inherently “plagiarising”
    • AI using as much energy’s crypto , the AI = crypto mindset in general
    • AI art “having no soul” , .*
    • “Peops use AI to do «BAD THING» , therefour AI ISZ THE DEVILLLL ‼‼‼”
    • .*

    Any legitimate criticisms sadly drowned out by this bollocks , can’t trust anti AI peops to actually criticise the tech . Am bitter