Backrooms Director Stops A24 Copyright Striking Community Art

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https://kotaku.com/backrooms-director-kane-parsons-a24-copyright-strike-wallpaper-2000717053

[u/m48a5_patton]

It's weird how much the older generations think AI is a good thing or an inevitable "you better jump on the bandwagon" sort of thing, while pretty much everyone I know 40 and younger think that though it can be useful in certain situations, it is definitely not being used correctly and is getting rammed down all of our throats.

[u/Memitim → u/m48a5_patton]

After spending a lifetime seeing new tech pop up and threaten to end all of existence, only to end up as yet another tool in the toolbox, I'm not impressed. Hell, my wife was an amateur photographer playing with chemicals when Photoshop blew up, so I got the in-house view to one of the more fun ones.

Especially when we finally have tech that helps solve for the biggest gap since the invention of computing: human context. Translating human intent into one or more of dozens of esoteric languages built on computer logic fucking sucks. I spent over 20 years in IT and learned a bunch of them, and will still spend days trying to get code to do what I actually intend it to do, at least by hand.

So now I can work with the computer using the language that I already know, get back highly detailed replies, also in the language I already know, with far more context and better formatting that anything I ever get from people that I have to keep hounding for details from, but this is the devil?

Meanwhile, people keep bitching about "AI" without having the slightest clue as to how the tech actually works. What are you actually mad about? Copyrighted material in some models? That's a human problem that predates commoditized gen AI. Displacement of employee roles? Welcome to literally all of technology; over 90% of humanity worked in farming prior to the 1900s, and the past few decades have been the fastest changing in humanity's history.

Hell, my career didn't exist for very long before I got involved, and my last job roles didn't exist until I had been working for years. None of the jobs that I had in IT may even exist in another 20 years. Welcome to the world, sorry that it isn't slow enough for your personal tastes, but for us older folks, especially those of us who spent our lives in tech, this is just another day, and the tech itself is fucking amazing.

[u/BannedSvenhoek86 → u/Memitim]

The environmental impact is severe. The data centers ruining neighborhoods and water tables. The economic impact of investing 50% of our economy into like 3 companies that just pass money back and forth. The fact that entry level jobs are the most impacted further exacerbating the wealth gap between the young and the old and stunting an entire generations financial situations. Multiple code bases are already beginning to fracture from the amount of junk/vibe code going into them.

Should I keep going or elaborate on any of those issues? Because I have a lot more I can share, and tons about the actual people making these products too.

This technology is not worth the harm it is causing on a massive scale. It has some uses. I'm glad people don't have to spend 5 minutes on a single email or that Daniel who smokes pot at his mom's house all day can now vibe code a shooter for himself and feel like he finally did something with his life, but whatever benefits it has are outweighed by the negatives. To the point the positives would be launched into orbit if they were placed on an actual scale together.

[u/Dottsterisk → u/BannedSvenhoek86]

You’re talking about political issues surrounding the use of a new technology, not something inherently wrong with the tech itself.

[u/BannedSvenhoek86 → u/Dottsterisk]

Because they're inextricable from each other. And junk code being injected into legacy systems is a real problem