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Generative AI Vegetarianism

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Re: Generative AI Vegetarianism

#51

I prefer "slop-free". Example usage: "I met a fellow slop-free human. We decided to a baby together without asking chatgpt for advice. Are we crazy or what?"

The majority of humans are not slop-free.

We compare AI to high-performance humans, but the average human is not better at many tasks than AI is.

Re: Generative AI Vegetarianism

#52
post #12

Vegetarianism is such a bad label lol Just say GenAI-free; organic software (written by organic agents as opposed to silicon-based ones); or, literally anything that actually means what you wrote.

I thought the proper term being used was hand crafted artisanal software?

Re: Generative AI Vegetarianism

#53
post #51

I prefer "slop-free". Example usage: "I met a fellow slop-free human. We decided to a baby together without asking chatgpt for advice. Are we crazy or what?"

The majority of humans are not slop-free. We compare AI to high-performance humans, but the average human is not better at many tasks than AI is.

And internet was full of human slop already before LLMs came.

Re: Generative AI Vegetarianism

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish I was far enough in my career to make this choice. Unfortunately I am smack in the middle of it, I have a good 20-25 years left. I wish I could retire and never bother with AI again

> I wish I could retire and never bother with AI again Don't worry, if AI is going to get as good as they say, all 7.2 billion of us (the 99%) will be forced to retire one way or another.

Thats exactly what I'm worried about. Or rather the likely bloodshed to follow

Re: Generative AI Vegetarianism

#57
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least they didn't go with "AI Veganism". It might be better to shoot for terms that have more positive associations. e.g. Someone might claim to be a fan of "soul code" (i.e. Code made by people with souls and not LLM's). Soul food is pretty tasty after all.

Negative associations? I'm not vegan myself but it's definitely a positive thing from my perspective.

Until I guess the mid-2010s there was a really pervasive stereotype of vegans as obnoxious pseudo-religious sticks-in-the-mud.

Re: Generative AI Vegetarianism

#58

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Believing in the capabilities of _upcoming_ LLMs that you have never actually used shows that you buy into marketing and hype very easily. No one really knows what the future will look like and there's an equally plausible one where post-subsidy token economics become impossible to justify for most use cases.

There are reasons, based on machine learning related theory, that justify the belief. Economics will likely sort itself out through optimizations, which are also highly plausible.

> There are reasons, based on machine learning related theory, that justify the belief.

Cool, what are those reasons? Links to papers would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Generative AI Vegetarianism

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wish I could retire and never bother with AI again Don't worry, if AI is going to get as good as they say, all 7.2 billion of us (the 99%) will be forced to retire one way or another.

Thats exactly what I'm worried about. Or rather the likely bloodshed to follow

> Or rather the likely bloodshed to follow

Yeah that was my "one way or another" allusion...

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