There are classes of problems that people want solved where modern AI tech is the only viable solution we have - and it kinda sucks that the way we got to adoption of those tools was through companies like OpenAI that were willing to just run people over to 'win'.
Makes it more or less impossible to reasonably discuss the tools, because you can't separate them from the ways they get 'weaponised' (to put it as inflammatorially as I can)
yeah I just wish the discourse was a little more informed. In particular talking about on-device models has revealed some misconceptions I think (even though a lot of the criticisms are still valid)
Oh my God, preach!
"AI is [bad for well-considered reasons]"
"That's an implementation problem, not something AI affords. Like most tech, you hate how humans are using it"
"Okay, yeah, that makes sense. But AI is still bad; look at all of the issues people are saying!!"
Rinse and repeat
Thing is: you're wrong and they're right.
"The house is on fire" is a useful statement even if parts of the house are not on fire.
"The house is not on fire, specific parts of the house are on fire and you are an uniformed fool for not recognizing the parts that aren't." is not.
"You just hate how humans are using it."
God, what an incoherent rebuttal. YES. That is what we hate. Is anybody else using AI? No? Just humans? Then sit down and shut up, or help us deal with the problem.
You can stay as mad as you want to about it, but until you engage with my actual point, you're not going to make any progress on what you imply is quite a problem. Have fun playing word parsing games, though! Glad it's working out for you. Metaphors are a lot of fun. =D
If you want people to engage with your point on here, you need to put it in the text of your posts somewhere.
All anyone can do to figure out what you mean is parse that text.
It is a bit like a game, yes, but that's how communication works. You should try it sometime.
I don't want people to engage with my point, I want to make commentary. I did.
You seemed to want to engage with my commentary, but failed to actually do so. I offered help with that, should you be interested. If not, no need to snark or respond at all. Just have a nice day!