Fuck AI

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28484962

cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/6806162

So, which butthole did you pull your code, copy, or image from today? 🙂

Source: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

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A magical word.

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I think my employer saw the Shopify CEO’s mandatory AI memo and got a little overexcited.

As a web developer I’ve tried copilot and disliked it immensely. It didn’t save me time because my syntax memory and minimal keystroke workflow are pretty decent after 20 years of huckin’ HTML and CSS in various frameworks.

I feel like if I give studies or interviews from companies who FAFOd I’d have a better chance of arguing my point. Does anybody have any in their back pocket they can spare?

Yes, I am very aware of the irony that I could try to ask an AI but avoiding it is kind of the point in this c, isn’t it?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33936586

My stepdad recently got a new laptop and I was surprised to see something in Windows 11 Task Manager called a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) along with the CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.

I’m assuming this is for Copilot stuff, but is there anything this would be good for outside of that? Anything if I got a Linux distro on this laptop instead?

The global rush to AI technology will require almost as much energy by 2030 as Japan uses today. One data center today consumes as much electricity as 100,000 households, but some of those currently under construction will require 20 times more.

Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone than manufacturing steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined, according to a report from the International Energy Agency.

AI has the potential to reverse all the gains made in recent years in advanced economies to reduce their energy use, mainly through efficiencies. The rapid increase in AI also means companies will seek the most readily available energy – which could come from gas plants, which were on their way out in many developed countries. In the US, the demand could even be met by coal-fired power stations being given a new lease on life, aided by Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for them.

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A Microsoft employee disrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration in a bold protest against the alleged use of artificial intelligence (AI) by Israel in its military operations in Gaza. The intervention drew sharp attention to growing dissent within the tech industry over the ethical implications of deploying AI in armed conflict.

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I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.

I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

Cross-posted from "Trump Order Seeks to Tap Coal Power in Quest to Dominate AI" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Add this to the pile of reasons. :sigh:

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