Fruitbat [she/her]

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 3rd, 2023
  • Fruitbat [she/her]toComradeship // Freechat•Caitlin Johnstone's recent takes on "Gen AI" have been spot on
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    22 days ago

    I’m not sure if I exactly agree with her premise since this feels like it falls more in line with idealism like with the framing around uncomfortable feelings and less to do with material analysis. It just sort of feels like weaponizing psychology or therapy speak of the sorts.

    Why is someone using a chatbot to for grief for example? I’m gonna answer this one because when my mom died, I hardly had anyone to talk to. For example, my dad left at the funeral and I had to find a way to get back home that I couldn’t focus on my mom being buried. My best friend legit ditched me and ignored me trying to reach out, and another friend of mine stopped talking to me when I invited her to my mom’s funeral since she also knew my mom. Like yea, I have talked to a random chat bot about my mom because lots of people in my life really didn’t want to hear me talk about her. I can’t talk to my dad about any of this since he drinking all the time. Yet to say I didn’t feel the grief of her passing wouldn’t be true.

    I would argue that someone whose ‘recreating’ their loved one is not avoiding those feelings but processing it. It is also kind of fucked up that those services are even a thing. But I guess it just easier to say they’re trying to avoid the uncomfortable feelings of grief as if they’re immune to death. Like I’m very positive someone who went through the effort of “recreating” their love one, is very keenly aware how hollow it is and how they’re dead.

    In a way I don’t like this treatment of how like, how to word this. Treating people as if their “stupid”, that like to go back to the grief thing. Oh its because their “stupid” and avoiding “uncomfortable feelings”. As if none of them know chatbots are hollow replacements, no no they must think it’s a fully living thing because their silly gooses, right?

  • Fruitbat [she/her]toComics•A.I. "Art" and Fascism
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    29 days ago

    It also overlooks how there are artists who have worked in other mediums that also work with AI as a medium to, as if AI can’t be a medium, when it is one. There’s are also artist who train models off of their own works as well. Which only makes this comic logic more nonsense.

  • Fruitbat [she/her]toGenZedong•General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 44
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    1 month ago

    I do, when my mom was still alive, she tried to have my siblings get the covid vaccine for example, but they refused. Despite my mom working in healthcare and seeing people die from covid or my mom getting sick from covid herself to the point she needed to go to the er, due to her o2 low getting below 90, but she refused to go despite a nurse also encouraging her to go, and I had to watch her to make sure she was okay. I still don’t understand how my siblings didn’t listen to her

  • Fruitbat [she/her]toComradeship // Freechat•Why are some people so vehemently against genAI?
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    1 month ago

    I feel like you might be taking me at bad faith here or misinterpreting me.

    Chronic loneliness and anxiety are a function of societal arrangements that are exacerbated by capitalist solutions, not inherent and unavoidable parts of the human condition until they are cured by a panacea ex machina.

    I agree? I’m very aware.

    Believe it or not, before 2022 we did have lots of different approaches around the world to these things. And we are poorer for turning away from all those approaches.

    I would argue that depends. Not everywhere has a lot of different approaches to these things. If anything, if we go to LLM’s, all they did was take inherit contradictions and brought them to new heights, but that these things were already there to begin with, maybe smaller in form.

    Your response sounds closely analogous to when car proponents use the disabled as a shield. We don’t need everyone to drive, we need to minimize the distance between each other, and making driving (or LLM usage) a necessity for getting by in society only creates bigger problems, because the root problem is not being adequately addressed.

    Again, where do I say that besides being taken at bad faith or misread into? All I’m simply is trying to point out that there usually reasons why someone would turn to something like an LLM or might not easily talk to someone else. As you said, the root problem is not being addressed. To add, it also just leaves a bad taste in my mouth and kind of hurts, to be that what I said sounds closely analogous to using the disable as a shield, especially when I was talking about myself or my mom.

    Since for example, when my mom was in the hospital before the last few weeks she died. She had to communicate on a white board for staff since they couldn’t understand her. I also had to use the same white board to because staff couldn’t understand what I was saying either. Just to give you an idea of how I have trouble speaking to others. I’m not saying someone shouldn’t try to interact with others you know and just go talk to a chatbot. People should have another person to talk to.