• marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    21 days ago

    Nothing AI is free. Unless there’s a chain of custody for all of the training data, it’s still unethical even if it’s used for a good thing. If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I’m still not a very good person. And there are non-AI ways to accomplish this that are just as good that would require almost comically less resources.

    This attitude is why Ubuntu, and only Ubuntu, recommends a minimum of 6 GB of Ram btw. You can run a full KDE system with onboard graphics and all the bells and whistles for less than 2 GB on other distros.

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      20 days ago

      If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I’m still not a very good person.

      Comparing copyright, a bullshit concept that was designed only to protect the rich, to building with “the flesh and bones of orphans” is so extreme that it’s not even worth arguing about.

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        Being pro-AI is the same as being pro-capitalist, and thus pro-orphan crushing machine.

        Having your work stolen so that a soulless faceless corporate entity can charge teenagers to recreate it at will and pretend they have any talent or capability whatsoever is pretty shitty, and defending it is anti-proletariat.

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          20 days ago

          You know you can use AI yourself too right? There’s no need to be anti-AI when you can be anti-OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/etc.

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            Wow you mean I too can burn electricity while stealing artist’s work so I can pretend to be an artist?! Wow mommy we can be homegrown douchebags these days!

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              You’re projecting human faults to AI. Pretending to be an artist when you’re just a prompter is a human fault. And there are plenty other applications which burn more electricity than a few AI prompts per day burn. “Stealing” artists’ works doesn’t matter because intellectual property is a meaningless concept.