Understandable, it’s a complicated topic. Complicated enough that tbh I didn’t have any business having opinions on it that strong lol, I might have the situation wrong and the “proud russians” there might not actually want to be a part of Russia and are horribly mistreated. It was kinda silly of me getting this invested in an argument based on an article I can’t read more than a paragraph of, I hope I haven’t wasted too much of your time or anything 🐕

It was wrong of me to assume you were using it in the wasteful, mindless ways a lot of people use “ai” stuff, I’m sorry for being an asshole about it. Afaik you running stuff like that sometimes isn’t any more wasteful than you spending that time playing games that push your hardware to the max, and I hadn’t thought about that before those replies.

I’ve been really worried about how shady and powerful open ai is and how many people are starting to use it to write science papers and cheat through med school and shit, but other than all the ways corporate “AI” is horrible there’s a lot of cool and fun applications imo, and I’m sorry for assuming you were supporting sam altman’s shenanigans

BTW if you unironically think that original art inspired by previous works is actually comparable to a computer scraping and slapping random bullshit together, you don’t know jack shit about art or the “AI” you so desperately need

Hey if you can’t actually make a solid argument for why “AI” is actually fine, there’s always calling the other person insane :D your use of an LLM isn’t any better or less cringe just bc you don’t use chat gpt, you’re still outsourcing your thinking and decision making to a computer, and you still use a fuck of a lot more power than you should on something that is ultimately stupid and pointless. Your life was fine before “AI”, why are you acting like this is some good or helpful or necessary thing at all?

None of the things I mentioned are even close to as horrible as AI is in those ways. Either you’re being disingenuous bc you think you need chat gpt to think for you, or you just have no idea at all what “AI” is and really need to do a lot of research on how harmful it is. Comparing CGI render farms to AI servers? Comparing human inspiration and paid for asset packs to a computer rearranging existing, stolen art? You’re not serious are you?

Remind me how much electricity production lines, phonographs and CGI use, or how much they rely on art theft simply to exist, or how they pose as an expert on a subject and feed people misinformation, or how they allow people to literally stop thinking and let it write everything and form every opinion for them?

I couldn’t read the whole article bc paywall, but it’s about people in Odesa who want to secede to Russia, right? Even if they’re not in the minority (which I seriously doubt) they don’t have the right to drag everyone else along with them to be oppressed and genocided by Russia. I’m sorry if I jumped the gun thinking you were advocating for Russia taking them over. That’s just a big part of the justification for Russia invading Ukraine, the idea that Ukrainians actually want to be liberated and live under Russia again, and I don’t respect Ukrainians or anyone else who want russian conquest any more than I respect neo nazis trying to get fascists in power. If they wanna be part of Russia so bad they can go there themselves and not try to get their neighbors taken over by Russia

Don’t be an asshole who thinks not supporting Russian imperialism is genocide. Jesus I hate how good this bait is, surely nobody is stupid and cruel enough to think Ukrainians should be embracing russian takeover and genocide, or that rejecting russian takeover and genocide is itself somehow genocide

There’s no genocide of russians or russia sympathizers going on in Ukraine. You’re such an obvious tankie troll, why are you even bothering here? YDI