[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don’t gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like “Hey, I can put this on paper for you” every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

  • Part4@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The more you use AI the more data you are providing it.

    1. They want data in the hope they can train their data centre hosted LLM’s to be accurate enough to take many jobs.
    2. If they achieve this, and make every company and country dependent on their LLM, they rinse, and the former middle class is as fucked as the working class have been since 1980’s de-industrialisation. You’re either made redundant, or your job can now be done by a long line of redundant people.

    It is a race to the bottom.

    At least, this is one possible outcome. There is a decent chance their data centre hosted LLM’s just won’t be accurate enough for mass deployment.

    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Are the data centers hardened? Isn’t that the appropriate question in this case? I’d call it voting for a better tomorrow?

      • Part4@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Even a perfectly secure data centre hosted LLM, in the hands of hyper-capitalist silicon valley tech bros, has the potential to do immense harm to most people. They are not our friends, and do not have our best interests at heart. (If you need this pointing out to you in November 2025 there is probably little point in us communicating at all, to be honest.)

        I am aware of the good that machine learning can do. These LLM’s are not that.

        They are buying islands, and putting bunkers on them, for a reason.