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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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In reality, yes, but in common discourse people mean LLM slop and image/video generation because that is what is being marketed to the general public. The acronym has been coopted by techbros.
Agree. And let me screed about it even more -
By discourse, I think you mean "...by common, chronically online experts". As backed by...what? Vibes in echo chambers?
LLM BAD! AI BAD! YOU LIKE AI? YOU BAD!
We've seen this shit before and we never learn.
30 years ago, everyone knew that MSG was bad and video games caused increased violence. Both turned out to be manufactured consensus - speculative letters and mouse-injection studies boosted by "experts" into public panic.
I'd wager a dollar that most rabidly anti-AI people don't grok that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (yes, that recent) was awarded for machine learning in protein folding - cracking a 50-year-old problem with real applications to drug discovery for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
TL;DR: LLMs aren't AI. Hell, LLMs aren't even bad. Big AI (aka capitalism) is where the problems lie. If you're gonna be mad, be mad at the right thing. It's still the same bad thing as before, just wearing a shinier hat now.