Good thing about this is it’s self selecting, all the technobros who obsess over AI will find themselves bankrupted like when the blockchain bubble bursted.
I get that AI has many problems but at the same time the potential it has is immense, especially as an assistant on personal computers
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Gnome and other desktops need to start working on integrating FOSS AI models so that we don’t become obsolete.
And this mentality is exactly what AI sceptics criticise. The whole reason why the AI arms race is going on is because every company/organisation seems convinced that sci-fi like AI is right behind the corner, and the first one to get it will capture 100% of the market in their walled garden while everyone else fades into obscurity. They’re all so obsessed with this that they don’t see a problem with putting in charge a virtual dumbass that is constantly wrong.
Is it really that hard for you to accept that some principled people may be genuinely against something that you tolerate?
You’re seeing more of it recently because veganism is actually on the rise, both because awareness about speciesism is rising and because of climate concerns. Plus you’re on the fediverse, where the concentration of principled radical leftists is higher than other platforms.
when human beings will also willingly put themselves into idiotic groups that do idiotic things
And is this one of those idiotic things? Are you implying trying to reduce animal cruelty in the world is idiotic?
What a braindead argument. Sometimes bad things happen to human children so we can excuse animal cruelty on an industrial scale.
And it’s not just the separation, 99% of male calves are killed immediately after being born, while females are either filled with hormones so they can be grown for meat, or they are raped year after year so they keep producing milk.