LostWanderer

Like, die in a fire Twitch! That’s some unhinged behavior which made me delete my account, and I left some pointed feedback. Not that they’ll care, but, fuck those fuckers!

I personally don’t think there is an ethical way of transforming LLMs into AI, at least not yet. As unfortunately there are too many complications with how it’s being peddled and the great slop impact that is hurting open source projects. I do think that companies engaging in machine learning and LLM development need to be heavily restricted and forced to comply with laws that will protect human jobs, human made content, websites, and software projects from their activities. Data stealing crawler bots need to be especially regulated, preferably out of existence, as they essentially DDOS websites that they crawl while stealing data from creatives that host websites and blogs.

Given that humans can reshape their environment in drastic ways, I think humanity needs to our dial collective focus on being more in harmony with nature and less fighting against it. We can do that by better understanding the world, by studying the oceans, fully mapping them in the least intrusive way possible. We have to carefully consider the impact that human activities have on our only home world, when new ideas are being considered. I think an ethical approach would be that technological progress has a positive impact on both the natural world and still improve the human condition.

You’re welcome, we have to fight the good fight! Technological advancement built on the backs of human exploitation and destabilization of the environment isn’t it; I’d prefer we take another direction of researching and optimizing solar, wind, and low emission power generation. I think humanity can advance without harming one another, we just have to find a better path forward. The way LLMs are being utilized at the moment is a harmful scam, we need to call it out more to reduce their ability to fool the public (who so far isn’t convinced by what the techbros are saying).

Mmm, I figured your opinion would line up with the line of thinking techbros tend to share. It was nice talking to you, have a good day.

Given the nature of most executives, rich fucks, I can’t see anything but dystopian coming from these chuckleheads. If you read their unfiltered and uncensored thoughts (often between the lines of their flowery words), how they see others, and notice their detachment for the everyday person. It’s pretty grim. Makes me wonder what you see.

Corporations are already trying and failing to do anything useful with gassed up LLMs, and I highly doubt that it will become useful in the next 5 to 10 years. However, what I do feel will happen is that all the hope posting and gaslighting by the shills, those who’s success rides on massive adoption will do their best to convince everyone to use the shit. Who knows how well that will actually turn out, it’s an open question at the moment. I hope all their efforts leads to failure, personally.

If gassed up LLMs do seep into the gaming industry to the point I can’t avoid it, then I just stop buying games. Spending money on slop isn’t ideal in my opinion. I have a backlog of games that haven’t been tainted by baby’s first lying software, so it isn’t a total loss. I got years of games to play before choosing another hobby altogether, I have adhered to some boycotts for a long amount of time in other areas. Having the will to research products and spend money only on those that don’t offend my sensibilities is natural to me.

I already won’t use Windows because Microslop chose to go hard in the LLM direction and look how well that is going for them. On top of it, I make use of open source software and support projects so that they can continue to thrive, avoiding anything that is stained with enshittification.

My concerns with gassed up LLMs that techbros call “AI” are numerous: Ecological effect, Quality of Media (games, art, movies, etc), how it affects the people who provide us with software and entertainment in general. Gassed up LLMs are being used as an excuse to lay off so many people in tech and gaming spaces. As corporations irresponsibly hired in a boom period and realized they’d have to pay people in so called lean times that aren’t actually lean. The myth of infinite growth has scrambled the brains of the C-Suite and distracted toddler investors, so the profits don’t look so good these days. As they are unwilling to cut off the CEOs who leech off a lot of corporate profits first, naturally the very people who make the stuff that enriches companies, execs, and shareholders…Are laid off first. Thrown into a rabid job market that is falling the fuck apart because rich fuckwits are creating a situation that serves to unilaterally fuck over those that don’t have a financial cushion to fall back on.

This will have a profound impact on the quality and selection of media…Humans are naturally creative, we’ve painted in caves and told stories for most of our life history. Storytelling and creativity is an intrinsic part of humanity, stories feel better when written by someone with that strong ability to tell a compelling tale! Gassed up LLMs mass produce sterile, meaningless slop comprised of stolen training data that doesn’t classify as art to me…Humans do to, but not on an industrial scale like an LLM can. Already, there are sites and instances even on the fediverse dedicated to sharing slop…It’s so bland. I can’t imagine staying interested in buying stories and art produced by slop generating LLMs. I’ll just write my own stuff…Learn how to draw things that exist in my head, that would be a better use of time and money. Creating feels so good, only a talentless techbro or hollow CEO would want to take that away from people to make a quick dollar.

LLMs in their current form use so much water and power, it’s honestly scare how they’ll have to rely on dirty forms of energy production just to keep up with escalating demand. That will have an impact on the local environment and marginalized communities initially and if enough of these irresponsible data centers are created…The scale of environmental and community impact is going to escalate.

We only have one home planet, imagine it being so sullied that human life can’t exist here anymore. To be honest, due to our current antics, I don’t even know if we’ll beat “The Great Filter” and become a sufficiently advanced civilization. We might destroy ourselves first, but at least nature would probably recover after we’re gone and our works eventually stop interfering with the ecosystem.

I don’t feel humanity should be concerned with AI as there is so much we don’t know about ourselves yet. We lack the sufficient understanding of neurology, why consciousness manifests, and how to create machinery that can actually mimic our brain structure. It would take so many generations of humanity, untold amounts of funding, multi-discipline research to produce a true AI. Techbros wanna shill now though, so we are stuck with gassed up LLMs that will probably cause society to collapse or the rich to finally get put to a French revolution style end (if disenfranchised people are feeling spicy enough).

If they abandon AI usage, I’d consider buying from them. Unless they give AI up and get a team of great humans at the helm to develop. They can get fucked, and I will spend my money elsewhere.

Yeah, ‘overmuch’ is a very useful word, great for shortening sentences! As an avid reader, I do see plenty of words…Rarely, do I use them because following KISS is for the best!

I edited that to: “not like she’ll have to do much, given the state of Xbox”. I was typing faster than my brain could think…It’s been a day.

Microslop is making a number of baffling choices that were influenced by huffing the farts of Satya and other AI fools. Asha Sharma is in no way capable of running Xbox anywhere but into the ground (not like she’ll have to do much, given the state of Xbox). Phil Spencer retiring from Microslop is probably a move he made knowing they are going to continue their downward spiral. Sarah Bond resigning from her position is a curious one. I wonder if Microslop execs talked future plans for Xbox with her, and felt so stunned by their incompetence, Sarah decided to abandon the Xbox division. There are other factors likely involved, but, I doubt we’ll be privy to those details just yet. When the postmortem of Xbox is released…The people involved might talk about, at least I hope so.

As I don’t feel Xbox as a console has a future, my current plan is to abandon Xbox as a platform. It will take time because right now buying an upgraded Gaming PC will be difficult, due to the insanity of hardware prices. For now, I’ll have to simply save my money and bide my time.

LOL I just downloaded the roms and used an emulator. There’s no way I’d re-buy for the Nintendo Switch, only because I am against their current practices. Until they abandon their virtual card system, I don’t think breaking my boycott is a smart move.