Who decides what is needless?
Comment on Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Even open source AI used for needless purposes contributes to wasteful resource usage that harms the environment just as much.
kibblebits@quokk.au 17 hours ago
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
Ideally, the end user by not partaking in shitty AI products, but I don’t have much faith in the average end user’s aversion to slop.
AI is being injected into everything without any consideration for its necessity, privacy implications, or environmental impact.
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
On top of that, there aren’t many AI based consumer-faced products that have really proven successful yet. It’s not only about necessity.
kibblebits@quokk.au 7 hours ago
What is your measure of success? Profit?
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Agreed. The energy use in training and running, its stochastic nature which causes hallucinations and wrong results, and the deeply harmful long-term psychological effects on users who abdicate their own reasoning to LLMs, is ultimately more harmful than useful. Doesn’t matter if the models are ‘open weight’, OSS, and totally ‘free’.
And, please, everyone, stop calling it ‘AI’. It’s not Intelligent. It’s a probabilistic regurgitator. Maybe some (human-written!) reasoning systems on top of that, but it isn’t intelligent or sentient.