cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33936586
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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Machine Learning is especially useful for many different kinds of research as an advanced mode of statistical analysis.
Text and image generation is not especially useful in any field other than to cut corners on paying human artists and writers and programmers to do the job properly.
Text and image generation are the ones that upset me. C-suite types (and their pettier, aspirational counterparts) don’t care about “art” - why publish a few good novels that you have to pay royalties on, when you can generate thousands? Even if they’re shit, there was zero effort on your part.
If you lack aesthetic appreciation - why would you bother hiring an artist for anything?
The wealthy of this era don’t seem to value art. Midjourney can make Kinkade knock offs faster than even Kinkade himself could. There’s not room in their world for Twombly’s and Motherwell’s - except perhaps as investment schemes.
Unpopular opinion: The only complaints I've read about AI taking someone's job so far were from freelance writers who wrote for clickbait sites, or other artists doing very generic work.
I am terrified of the impact on education. With the DOE likely to be dismantled, public education is probably going to be AI garbage. Teachers don’t need to be qualified for the subjects they teach. It’s being heavily pushed by administrators as a way to deal with ever increasing class sizes and SPED case loads. (God, if Kamala had been elected, I was going to be on the war path for a fed investigation into SPED compliance in my state…)
They made the working conditions for teachers hell, to drive us out of the profession. Online schools don’t require building overhead, they allow so many options for scamming the system (AI generated essays in response to AI generated homework assignments.)
I am worried that the future for all children who cannot afford a private education will be AI generated content delivered via a screen either at home or in a mass classroom overseen by a babysitter.
It’s an attack on knowledge and expertise. It’s “knowledge has no value, reality has no value, it’s who has control over the model.”