AI
💡 Synonyms
diffusion, genAI, GPT, LLM
Nothing on this site will ever knowingly be made with the use of generative AI. All of the text, except when quoting someone else, was written entirely by me. I occasionally use permissively-licensed resources from sites like openclipart and OpenGameArt. To the best of my knowledge, nothing I use was made by generative AI. If you know of any such material here please let me know.
My work is permissively licensed for use by other people. Nothing on this site may be scraped or used in any way for the purpose of training large language models or other machine learning applications. Permission will not be given.
My position on generative AI boils down to two simple questions: (1) what does it do that is good for people, and (2) does the good outweigh the harm it causes? If the answer to 1 is "someday it'll XYZ..." then: cool. Let the research continue in safe, controlled environments. Like all scientific research, it should only be done if it can be done ethically. If "someday" arrives and it can do all these great things for people while minimizing harm, then you can release it.
Even if we accept that generative AI will be a technological revolution bigger than the printing press that will lead to new horizons in human consciousness-my opinion is that it won't, but even supposing it will-we still shouldn't let it keep hurting people in the meantime. If the printing press had some technical fault that made every third one blow up and kill whoever used it, Gutenberg wouldn't have let people use it. He would've kept working on it until it was safe to use, no matter how big of a sea change it would eventually be for human knowledge and communication.
I have deeper philosophical objections to generative AI. Tumblr user mikkeneko wrote an excellent post about this, which I have archived here; but these arguments should be unnecessary. The current state of GenAI should be obviously bad for plain, practical reasons. The harms are many and the benefit is theoretical. It is a scam.