Source (Via Xcancel)
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
357 points (98.1% liked)
Fuck AI
3126 readers
1064 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This community is hilarious. Hating on tech oligarchs and the tech hype bro archetype is one thing (like this post), but its another entirely to staunchly oppose a technological advancement like machine learning so much you revel in a community surrounding it. If your anger is directed at your fellow man for using LLMs to summarize their book reports then fine, join the club. Otherwise enjoy angrily shaking your fist at the world. I think it was Aurelius who spoke on the ignorance of opposing the nature of things.
Machine learning would be an interesting advancement indeed.
Sadly all resources are focused on LLMs, which are incapable of learning once trained (and don't really learn anything during training that winRAR wouldn't “learn” when compressing a file... much less, in fact, since LLMs are extremely lossy compressors), and which are an evident dead end when it comes to AI.
LLMs are barely better than Eliza at producing text (and equally useless at producing information), and several orders of magnitude costlier.
They are extremely harmful to society, culture, human rights, research (especially AI research) and, in the mid to long term, the economy.
They are a scam, a criminal misuse of money, time, and resources, and the sooner the bubble bursts the sooner we can start recovering from the damage they've caused and the sooner we can get back to researching proper AI (though at this point I'm fairly certain it's already too late; they've caused too much damage and global warming will kill us before we have a chance to invent something that might actually help).