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Comment on NVIDIA CEO says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

(subtitle) Won’t somebody think of the CEOs?
(ending sentence) It’s unlikely that the negativity is going to go away because it hurts a few executives’ feelings.

I bloody love the mockery sandwich. Also:

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella recently complained that the conversation around AI needs to move beyond “slop.”
As a reminder, it’s now estimated that more than 20% of YouTube’s feed can be defined as slop,

Kind of a damn good way to convey “yeah, just ignore Nadella”.

Why won’t you think on the ~~children~~ billionaires?

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OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Maybe if “ai” would make better than mere slop, we might actually like it? (e.g. if instead of just stealing it might do something responsibly, and also well)

Somehow all this reminds me of spez… we are just landed gentry, don’t you know 😜

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- lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I think the negative reaction is composed of multiple factors coming together:
  
  slop (as you said),
  
  people using the slop to add noise to the internet,
  
  harmful output (not talking about the paperclip problem; think on Grok sexualising minors, or ChatGPT fuelling mental issues)
  
  businesses shoving those models everywhere and being extra pushy about them,
  
  environmental and geopolitical issues,
  
  authorship and intellectual property issues,
  
  “training” being made with no regards to consent of the creators,
  
  all that “you’re now obsolete garbage! Soon we’ll be able to trash you and replace you with AI!” bzzz-bzzz-bzzz,
  
  supply and demand of hardware parts…
  
  …phew. All of that while disingenuous people — like Huang, Altman or Nadella — feign ignorance on why people complain about it and pretend it’s a bunch of primitives backslashing against “the future”.
  
  You’d need to fix a lot of those to make people like AI. Not just the slop.
  
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  - OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That seems a solid listing. I would add one more: companies that did actually fire their workforces and attempt to replace them with a"i” now having regretted it, and likely to the tune of that decision having destroyed their entire company.
    
    Although my earlier comment was purely about the slop present on YouTube - where slop or no slop, already the monetization aspects have been so destructive to the utility of those videos.
    
    This now makes me curious: does the term “slop” apply beyond text, images, and videos? I thought “ai” coding was called “vibe-coding” rather than slop?
    
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    lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Even for the one just in YT, people automatically say “eeew” if it’s AI-generated, even if not slop.
    
    This now makes me curious: does the term “slop” apply beyond text, images, and videos? I thought “ai” coding was called “vibe-coding” rather than slop?
    
    I think it could. I only recall seeing it for media, but the meaning fits AI code well. Specially dysfunctional code outputted in large quantities.
    
    “Vibe coding” simply lacks that negative connotation, it’s what the people making it call it.
    
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